Mayfair Organ Concert: Amelie Held

Today's Mayfair Organ Concert is the first in this year's John Hill-Catherine Ennis series and will be given by Amelie Held (New York City & Munich).

Dupré - Poème héroïque Op. 33  
Felix Mendelssohn - Organ Sonata No. 5 in D major Op. 65
JS Bach arr. Held - Chaconne from Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV 1004
Demessieux - Te Deum Op. 11

As always admission is free with a retiring collection

Known for her red organ shoes, organist Amelie Held quickly became an internationally acclaimed artist. She regularly performs on stages in Europe and the United States. Her solo concert activities include performances at the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Philharmonie Essen, the Konzerthalle Bamberg, the Konzerthaus Dortmund, the Helsinki Music Center and the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Concert Hall as well as major cathedrals in the world’s most important music centres, such as Leipzig, Hamburg, Milan, Paris, Zurich, London, Boston and New York City.  

Raised in Munich, Germany, in a non-musician family, Amelie released her debut album at the young age of 22 and has won several prizes at international organ competitions. She was one of the youngest finalists of the prestigious French Concours International de Chartres (2018). The Diapason named her a member of the “20 under 30” Class of 2023.  

She has a broad repertoire, both as a soloist and with orchestra and chamber ensemble, ranging from early music to contemporary compositions as well as her own transcriptions. 

Extensive training with the most internationally renowned professors in her field has taken Miss Held throughout Europe and to the United States of America. She studied organ, piano and violin from a young age and became a pupil in the organ class of Heidi Emmert at the Regensburg Academy of Music. She went on to study violin and organ at the University of Music Detmold, Germany and the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris, France (B.A. in both majors). Her teachers there included Martin Sander, Michel Bouvard and Olivier Latry. She completed her master's degrees with top marks at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart where she studied organ with Ludger Lohmann and both harpsichord and organ in the field of early music with Lorenzo Ghielmi in Milan, Italy. She currently lives in New York City, where she graduated with an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School, having studied with Grammy Award-winning organist Paul Jacobs. 

In addition to music, Amelie is passionate about literature and speaks four languages fluently. In her free time, she indulges in dancing, working out or riding motorcycles.  

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