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'''Jevgēnija Ļisicina''' (Russian: Евгения Лисицына, born on November 11, 1942 in Stupino, Russia) is one of the most renowned Latvian organists.
'''Jevgēnija Ļisicina''' (Russian: Евгения Лисицына, born on November 11, 1942 in Stupino, Russia) is one of the most renowned Latvian organists.

== Biography ==

Jevgenija Lisicina finished a piano course in the Leningrad (St.Petersburg) State Conservatoire named after Rimsky-Korsakov, class of Prof. Vladimir Nielsen. Continued studies at the Latvian State Conservatoire named after Yazeps Vitols (the present Latvian Academy of Music). Graduated Prof. Nikolai Vanadzinsh organ class (1968). Laureate of the international competition of organists named after Thcurlionis in Vilnius (Lithuania, 1968). She has given over a thousand concerts in the cities of the former Soviet Union as well as in many European countries – Germany, Italy, Belgium, France and others. Several times with great success participated in international festivals. Yevgenia Lissitsina’s repertoire includes all Johan Sebastian Bach compositions for organ as well as works by Cesar Franck, Max Reger, Olivier Messiaen, F.Liszt, F.Mendelssohn and Latvian composers. Author of the transcriptions of Gloria (for choir and orchestra) and The Four Seasons (for organ) by A.Vivaldi, Pictures from Exhibition (for organ and percussion instruments) by M.Mussorgsky, Ancient Suite (for organ) by Schnitke, works by J.S.Bach and L.Van Beethoven and other classical and contemporary compositions. Yevgenia Lissitsina has recorded over twenty long-playing records and six CDs and has a wide library of sound recordings in the funds of the Latvian radio. In 1989/90 questioning of the readers of the major newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda” revealed two records by Yevgenia Lissitsina to be among ten most popular classical music records in Russia.

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Jevgēnija Ļisicina (Russian: Евгения Лисицына, born on November 11, 1942 in Stupino, Russia) is one of the most renowned Latvian organists.

Biography

Jevgenija Lisicina finished a piano course in the Leningrad (St.Petersburg) State Conservatoire named after Rimsky-Korsakov, class of Prof. Vladimir Nielsen. Continued studies at the Latvian State Conservatoire named after Yazeps Vitols (the present Latvian Academy of Music). Graduated Prof. Nikolai Vanadzinsh organ class (1968). Laureate of the international competition of organists named after Thcurlionis in Vilnius (Lithuania, 1968). She has given over a thousand concerts in the cities of the former Soviet Union as well as in many European countries – Germany, Italy, Belgium, France and others. Several times with great success participated in international festivals. Yevgenia Lissitsina’s repertoire includes all Johan Sebastian Bach compositions for organ as well as works by Cesar Franck, Max Reger, Olivier Messiaen, F.Liszt, F.Mendelssohn and Latvian composers. Author of the transcriptions of Gloria (for choir and orchestra) and The Four Seasons (for organ) by A.Vivaldi, Pictures from Exhibition (for organ and percussion instruments) by M.Mussorgsky, Ancient Suite (for organ) by Schnitke, works by J.S.Bach and L.Van Beethoven and other classical and contemporary compositions. Yevgenia Lissitsina has recorded over twenty long-playing records and six CDs and has a wide library of sound recordings in the funds of the Latvian radio. In 1989/90 questioning of the readers of the major newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda” revealed two records by Yevgenia Lissitsina to be among ten most popular classical music records in Russia.