Organ Summer at Hallgrímskirkja 2026  

Andreas Jetter organ, Kathedrale Chur Switzerland
Admission ISK 4.200

Andreas Jetter, born in 1978, has served as Director of Music at Chur Cathedral (Switzerland) since 2010, a position that also includes the roles of cathedral organist and cathedral choirmaster. He is likewise the artistic director of the cathedral and cathedral organ concert series there. In 2013 he was additionally appointed Master of Music at the Minster of Our Lady in Radolfzell (Lake Constance, Germany); this appointment concluded in spring 2023. From 2004 to 2010, Andreas Jetter was principal organist at Salem Minster (Lake Constance, Germany).

Jetter studied church music, organ, piano, and conducting at the universities of music in Esslingen, Rottenburg, Trossingen, and Tübingen. With distinction, he completed studies as a pianist and conductor at the Rachmaninoff Institute of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow—becoming the first foreign scholarship holder of the Russian Federation—and graduated in 2002 with a “Red Diploma.”

Program: Heavenly Joys

Hans Rott (1858–1884)
Symphonic Movement in E major (1878)
(1st movement, “Alla breve”, from the Symphony in E major,
transcription for organ by Andreas Jetter, 2021)

Dezső Antalffy-Zsiross (1885–1945)
“Sportive Fauns” – Scherzo after paintings by Boecklin
from: Four Pieces for Organ (1922)

William Thomas Best (1826–1897)
“Gorhoffedd Gwŷr Harlech” –
Concert Fantasy on a March from Wales

Franz Schmidt (1874–1939)
Chaconne in C-sharp minor (1925)
I. Aeolisch – II. Lydisch – III. Dorisch – IV. Ionisch

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