Johannes Skoog is winner of the First Prize and the Bach Prize at the 2024 Canadian International Organ Competition and he is one of Sweden’s brightest young organists. He was also recently appointed to be the new Swedish Royal Court Organist. He holds degrees from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris and the Staatliche Musikhochschule in Stuttgart. His teachers included Olivier Latry, Nathan Laube, Louis Robilliard, Michel Bouvard, Thierry Escaich and Mathias Kjellgren. He has performed at venues throughout Europe including the Bozar concert house in Brussels, Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, and Stockholm Town Hall.

Program: Clair de lune, C. Debussy; Fantaisie, Op. 16, C. Franck; Les Préludes, F. Liszt; Toccata, Op. 11, Sergei Prokofiev; Scarbo, from Gaspard de la nuit, No. 3, M. Ravel; Ondine, from Gaspard de la nuit, No. 1, M. Ravel; Inventio Processionis, C. Unander-Scharin

With combined Choirs of Christ Church Cathedral, Stephan Casurella, Director and St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Carlton Monroe, Director: And I Saw a New Heaven, E. Bainton; God Is Gone Up, G. Finzi; Greater Love Hath No Man, J. Ireland; A New Song, J. MacMillan