"Brightening" - Organ concert with Ralph Gustafsson in Kusmarks kyrka

Ralph Gustafsson is one of Sweden's foremost organists in his generation. He engages in extensive concert activities both in Sweden and abroad. Now he is visiting Kusmarks Church!

Ralph was educated at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, but has also studied in Finland, Belgium, and France. Between 1976 and 1989, Ralph Gustafsson was an organist and choir conductor at Nacka Church, where alongside his organ concerts, he frequently appeared as a conductor in major church musical works. He has since been active as an organist at S:ta Maria Magdalena Church in Stockholm until 2017, but is now a freelance concert organist. Ralph Gustafsson's extensive repertoire includes representative works ranging from early Baroque to contemporary times. A great interest in Swedish late Romantic music was laid already during his earliest study years in his hometown of Norrköping under the guidance of the organist, composer, and Otto Olsson disciple Nils Eriksson. Since then, he has explored, performed, and documented this repertoire.

In Kusmarks Church, you will listen to the following:
Louis-Nicholas Clérambault: Suite du deuxième ton
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in D major (BWV 532)
Charles-Marie Widor: Choral from Symphony Romane, Organ Symphony No. 10
Viktoria Klint: Ljusning
Camille Saint Saëns: The Swan (arranged by Alexandre Guilmant)
Théodore Dubois: Toccata