Göteborg International Organ Festival
Gothenburg International Organ Festival and Gothenburg's organ festival for the young are scenes for early and new music in cross-border cross-cultural collaboration, whose goal is to be an annual appreciated gateway to a world of sensual passion and new sounds.
Göteborg International Organ Festival 2024
Theme: Journeys in Time and Space
9-20 October 2024
Over 12 days, the festival explores how music and people have moved across geographical and cultural boundaries, and how the journey as a musical metaphor can help us understand life.
In a marathon European organ concert, 32 organists from 17 European cities will take visitors on a musical journey through time and space, building symbolic bridges across borders.
The year 2024 also marks the 30th anniversary of the Göteborg International Organ Festival, which offers a varied programme ranging from baroque to contemporary music. The festival also celebrates the German organist Matthias Weckman and the Norwegian composer Egil Hovland.
Welcome to the Göteborg International Organ Festival 2024!
Theme
The festival explores the musical landscape of 18th-century Europe through the eyes of Charles Burney, incorporating both his words and the music he encountered on his travels. Burney serves as a symbolic point of departure for this year's theme, Journeys in Time and Space.
