Organ Summer 2026 – Andreas Jetter (Chur Cathedral, Switzerland)

Organ Summer at Hallgrímskirkja 2026

 Sunday July 19th at 5pm

 Andreas Jetter organ, Kathedrale Chur Switzerland

 Admission ISK 4,200

 Andreas Jetter, born in 1978, has served as Director of Music at Chur Cathedral (Switzerland) since 2010, a position that also includes the roles of cathedral organist and cathedral choirmaster. He is likewise the artistic director of the cathedral and cathedral organ concert series there. In 2013 he was additionally appointed Master of Music at the Minster of Our Lady in Radolfzell (Lake Constance, Germany); this appointment concluded in spring 2023. From 2004 to 2010, Andreas Jetter was principal organist at Salem Minster (Lake Constance, Germany).

 Jetter studied church music, organ, piano, and conducting at the universities of music in Esslingen, Rottenburg, Trossingen, and Tübingen. With distinction, he completed studies as a pianist and conductor at the Rachmaninoff Institute of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow—becoming the first foreign scholarship holder of the Russian Federation—and graduated in 2002 with a "Red Diploma."

 Program – "Heavenly Joys"

 Hans Rott (1858–1884)

 Symphonic Movement in E major (1878)

 (1st movement, "Alla breve", from the Symphony in E major,

 transcription for organ by Andreas Jetter, 2021)

 Dezső Antalffy-Zsiross (1885–1945)

 "Sportive Fauns" - Scherzo after paintings by Boecklin

 from: Four Pieces for Organ (1922)

 William Thomas Best (1826–1897)

 “Gorhofedd Gwŷr Harlech” –

 Concert Fantasy on a March from Wales

 Franz Schmidt (1874–1939)

 Chaconne in C-sharp minor (1925)

 I. Aeolisch – II. Lydisch – III. Dorisch – IV. Ionic

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