For the twenty-sixth consecutive year, the Cororgano festival returns to Friuli Venezia Giulia, desired and conceived by the Coro Polifonico di Ruda with the aim of enhancing the immense organ heritage of our region. Since its origins, the festival has been appreciated and rewarded by the public who has always shown attention for the music of the ‘prince’ of instruments and above all for the sounds that these jewels, year after year, have given to enthusiasts and all lovers of quality music. For some years the festival – after a travelling period – has focused on three symbolic places of Friuli Venezia Giulia: Trieste, Palmanova and Marano Lagunare. This year too we have chosen this strategic line, comforted by the great participation of the past years. And as usual the protagonists of the three concerts will be – in addition to the organs – three very important virtuosos of the instrument from Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany.
The festival will start from the Doge's Cathedral of Palmanova on Thursday 29 August with a concert by organist Soren Gleerup Hansen who will perform, among others, music by Dietrich Buxtehude, Girolamo Frescobaldi and Georg Muffat. Cororgano will then move to Trieste, to the Evangelical Lutheran Church. On 30 August, organist Hayo Boerema will play first on the Tronci organ and then on the grand Steinmeyer organ. He will perform music by Bach, Frescobaldi, Alain and Boerema himself. The grand finale will be in Marano Lagunare on Sunday 1 September. The star of the concert will be David Boos with music by Storace, Steigleder and Scheidt. Cororgano can count on the contribution of the Ministry of Culture, the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, Promoturismo and important private partners such as Danieli and Zanutta with the patronage of their respective municipal administrations. For the Polifonico – protagonist of the first editions of Cororgano – it is a collateral activity to the main concert activity which however enriches and enhances its way of being protagonist of the musical and choral life of Friuli Venezia Giulia.