Organ Festival Sønderjylland-Schleswig
The Sønderjylland-Schleswig Organ Festival is a cross-border festival in the Sønderjylland-Schleswig region . It was first carried out in 2003 and has since taken place in the months of June, July, August and September in churches, cathedrals and chapels in northern Schleswig-Holstein and southern Denmark .
aims
The aim of the festival is to promote cross-border cooperation in the field of top-class church music and to summarize the region's existing range of concerts and enrich it with events. With the help of the festival, these offers are to be made known to a large public and thus to intensify awareness of the region's common cultural heritage. As part of the festival, concerts on important historical organs of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries as well as the present with well-known regional and international performers will be included in the program. At the same time, organ tours with concert parts are offered on special organs in small parishes that cannot or only rarely be presented to the public outside of the concert series.
Establishment and implementation
The low budget festival was founded in 2003 by the parish of Sankt Nikolai in Flensburg and the church music school in Løgumkloster in Denmark. The parishes and organizers involved organize their concerts independently. The organ festival's office, which summarizes and creates the joint program, maintains the website and does the press work, is financed by grants that are newly acquired every year.
advancement
As long-term sponsors, the cultural foundations of the Nord Ostsee-Sparkasse in Flensburg and North Friesland, the Sparkassenstiftung from 1869, and the Danish regional office Sønderjylland-Schleswig regularly make the contributions that have made the respective implementation possible.