Yevgenia Lisitsyna

Yevgenia Lissitsyna in 2001

Evgenija Wladimirowna Lissizyna ( Latvian Jevgēnija Ļisicina, Russian Евгения Владимировна Лисицына ; English transcription: Jevgenija Lisicina ; born  November 11, 1942 in Stupino , Russia ) is a Latvian organist .

Career

In 1968 she won the 2nd prize at the Čiurlionis Competition (named after Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis ) in Vilnius in the organ category . She is the organist at Riga Cathedral and has given over a thousand concerts in the Soviet Union and its successor states as well as in European countries, including Germany, Italy, France and Belgium. Between 1999 and 2001 she played all of Johann Sebastian Bach's organ works in one cycle on the cathedral organ in Riga. This project was carried out in connection with the 800th anniversary of the city of Riga, which took place in 2001.

Lissizyna has transcribed a number of works for the organ, including Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and Modest Mussorgkski's Pictures at an Exhibition , the latter for organ and percussion instruments . In 1989/90, in a survey of the readers of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, two of their recordings were chosen among the ten best classical records in the Soviet Union.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of award winners ( Memento from January 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ http://www.music.lv/lisicina/projects.htm
3. ↑ http://www.music.lv/lisicina