22nd International Festival “Days of Organ – Dies organorum”: NATHAN LAUBE

Nathan Laube is a leading performer and pedagogue who is beloved around the world.  His extensive recital career includes major venues spanning four continents. He has performed in the most famous churches and cathedrals of Europe, including Notre-Dame Cathedral, St. Paul’s Cathedral, and for the summer 2017 he was chosen as the first Organist in Residence at the celebrated 1738 Müller Organ of the St.-Bavokerk in Haarlem (Netherlands). In August 2022 he makes his BBC Proms debut at Royal Albert Hall in London.

Program:
Dieterich Buxtehude (1637–1707)
Chorale prelude Te Deum laudamus, BuxWV 218
Praeludium
Versus 1 – Te Deum laudamus
Versus 2 – Auf 2 Clavier – Pleni sunt coeli et terra
Versus 3 – Te Martyrum à 2 Clav. è Ped.
Versus 4 – Tu devicto cum 3 subiectis

Maurice Duruflé (1902–1986)
Prelude and Fugue on the name A.L.A.I.N., Op. 7

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Sonata in B minor, S. 178 (Transcription by Nathan Laube)

Biography:
Nathan Laube is a leading performer and pedagogue who is beloved around the world.  His extensive recital career includes major venues spanning four continents. He has performed in the most famous churches and cathedrals of Europe, including Notre-Dame Cathedral (Paris), St. Paul’s Cathedral (London), and for the summer 2017 he was chosen as the first Organist in Residence at the celebrated 1738 Müller Organ of the St.-Bavokerk in Haarlem (Netherlands). In August 2022 he makes his BBC Proms debut at Royal Albert Hall in London.
He is regularly called upon to inaugurate important organs across the world, including the famous organs.
In April 2019, Mr. Laube launched the documentary-style radio program, “All the Stops,” on the WFMT Radio Network Chicago, featuring many of the world’s most famous organs in Europe and the United States.
Mr. Laube currently serves as Associate Professor of Organ at the Eastman School (Rochester, NY).  From 2020 to 2022 Mr. Laube was professor of organ at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart, Germany, succeeding his mentor, Ludger Lohmann, at his alma mater.  Prior to his move to Europe, he served on the organ faculty of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York from 2013 to 2020. Since 2018 Laube additionally holds the post of the International Consultant in Organ Studies at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (Birmingham, UK). He has served on the juries for many competitions, including the International Gottfried Silbermann Competition (Freiberg, DE) in 2021, the International Martini Organ Competition (Groningen, NL) in 2022, and the Olivier Messiaen Competition (Lyon, FR) in 2022.
Mr. Laube is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied with Alan Morrison. The recipient of a William Fulbright fellowship, he continued his studies at the Conservatoire Rayonnement Régional in Toulouse with Michel Bouvard and Jan Willem Jansen.  He received his Masters at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart, Germany, where he studied with Ludger Lohmann, under the auspices of a DAAD Grant.