Hans Fagius

Because the artist that has recorded longest using the BIS label, Hans Fagius comes with an impressive repertoire which includes organ music of several eras. Fagius’ early body organ lessons had been with Nils Eriksson and Bengt Berg. His 1974 soloist’s diploma from your Stockholm’s Royal University of Music was gained under Alf Linder. That same 12 months, he produced his general public debut in Stockholm. He spent the next 12 months in Paris, performing private research with Maurice Duruflé. Fagius after that began providing concerts, planing a trip to America and Australia, in addition to throughout European countries. Although he offers focused increasingly more within the Baroque, performing his own study into the period, he offers performed and documented body organ works from the Renaissance, Baroque, and Intimate eras, and functions by Swedish composers of most eras. In the first 1980s in Stockholm, and once again in 1996 in Copenhagen, Fagius performed some recitals to provide the entirety of J.S. Bach’s body organ functions, which he in addition has recorded. Furthermore, he has documented the body organ symphonies of Widor; the entire body organ music of Kodály; and many duet albums with performers such as for example David Sanger, body organ; Mats Jansson, piano; Rolf Leanderson, baritone; and Gunilla von Bahr, flute. Fagius offers taught in the Royal Danish Conservatory since 1989 as well as the Swedish Royal Academy of Music since 1998.