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The organ of the Philharmonie Berlin will celebrate its 60th anniversary in autumn 2025 – and Jan Liebermann is the first musician to offer his congratulations. Wherever the 20-year-old performs, he is greeted by storms of applause. Technical challenges do not seem to exist for this exceptional musician, who brings works such as Richard Wagner’s Meistersinger Overture or Maurice Duruflé’s famous Toccata to life with striking virtuosity. Yet Jan Liebermann’s artistry goes beyond technical accomplishment: he is a sensitive and serious performer whose interpretations combine depth of thought with intensity. Liebermann performs entirely from memory – something rarely found among organists.
Artists
Jan Liebermann organ
Programme
Richard Wagner
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude (arr. for organ by Edwin Lemare)
Marcel Dupré
Three Preludes and Fugues, op. 36
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068: 2nd Movement Air (transcr. Sigfrid Karg-Elert)
Maurice Duruflé
Suite for Organ, op. 5
Additional information
Duration ca. 1 hour and 10 minutes
Main Auditorium
24 €
Series Z: Organ
Biography
Jan Liebermann
In spring 2024, Jan Liebermann attracted widespread attention by performing all six of Johann Sebastian Bach’s trio sonatas from memory in a series of concerts – nearly an hour and a half of music, a true challenge for any organist. “Usually in a concert you play one trio sonata, if you’re lucky two,” Liebermann explains. He immediately devoted himself to his next major project: the highly virtuosic Trois Préludes et Fugues by Marcel Dupré, which he also performed multiple times in public from memory.
The young organ influencer from Upper Franconia shares his passion for “his” instrument on social media with thousands of followers, effortlessly refreshing the organ’s somewhat dusty image: “Social media is a fantastic stage, bigger than any concert hall or church – and also a great medium to present yourself to the wider world.” Born in 2005, Liebermann was admitted as a young student to the Young Academy of the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt in December 2019. Since the winter semester of 2022/23, he has been studying organ literature performance at the Hochschule für Musik in Mainz, while also taking masterclass piano lessons at the International Piano Institute Bad Homburg. “My goal is to become a concert organist and perform worldwide. It’s an overwhelming feeling to play for an audience – on as many instruments as possible, in as many countries and cultures as possible,” he says.
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