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'''Jevgenia Lisicina''' ([Russian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language]: Евгения Лисицына, Latvian: Jevgēnija Ļisicina, born on November 11, 1942 in Stupino, Russia) is one of the most renowned Latvian organists of a Russian descent.
'''Jevgenia Lisicina''' ([Russian]: Евгения Лисицына, Latvian: Jevgēnija Ļisicina, born on November 11, 1942 in Stupino, Russia) is one of the most renowned Latvian organists of a Russian descent.


== Biography ==
== Biography ==

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

Biography

Jevgenija Lisicina finished a piano course in the Leningrad (St.Petersburg) State Conservatoire, class of Prof. Vladimir Nielsen. Continued studies at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. Graduated Prof. Nikolai Vanadzinsh organ class (1968). Laureate of the Čiurlionis international competition of organists in Vilnius, Lithuania, 1968.

Works

Jevgenija Lisicina is the author of several transcriptions of classical music for organ performance. The most successfull transcriptions for organ are:

  • Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria for choir and orchestra
  • Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons for organ
  • Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures from Exhibition for organ and piano
  • Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures from Exhibition for organ and percussions
  • Alfred Schnittke - Ancient Suite for organ
  • Jāzeps Vītols - The Bard of Beverina for organ
  • Francis Poulenc - Concerto en sol mineur for organ and piano
  • Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings for organ
  • Edvard Grieg - Introduction for “Peer Gynt” for organ and piano
  • Maurice Ravel - Pavana for organ and piano

Another transcriptions include classical music of J.S.Bach and L.V.Beethoven.

Recordings

From early in career Jevgenija Lisicina has recorded dozens of organ music solo recordings in the Riga Dom Cathedral (Latvia). Today her recordings count twenty+ long-playing records and eight CDs.


In the 1989/90 questioning of the readers of the major Russian newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda” revealed two records by Jevgenija Lisicina to be among top ten most popular classical music records in Russia.

See also