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Dates of 2012 series anounced
Posted: 18/10/2011

We are delighted to announce the dates of the 2012 series of summer concerts.

The first concert will take...

Final concert of the 2011 series
Posted: 09/08/2011

The closing concert in the 2011 series of summer concerts in Galway Cathedral takes place on Thursday next, 11...

ConTempo opens the 2011 series
Posted: 08/07/2011

The 2011 series of concerts in Galway Cathedral opened last night with a concert by ConTempo Quartet with David...

We need Friends!
Posted: 21/06/2011

With the opening concert of new series drawing ever closer, we invite you to participate in the Friends scheme....

Programmes complete!
Posted: 18/05/2011

We have now received programmes from all performers in the upcoming series, and they have been uploaded to the...

Summer Concerts 2011
Posted: 15/04/2011

The 2011 series of summer concerts in Galway Cathedral has been announced!

Galway Cathedral Recitals is...

Uwe Bestert, organ

Thursday 29 July 2010 - 20:00
Admission €12.00 (concessions €8.00)

Uwe BestertUwe Bestert was born in 1959 and studied church music at the Academy for Music and Theatre in Hanover. He has been a church musician at the St Gertrud Lutheran Church in Hamburg since 1990, where he conducts the choirs, plays the organ for the services and oversees an annual concert series. He has given numerous organ concerts throughout Germany, in Great Britain, Ireland, France, Norway and the USA.

Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722)

The battle between David and Goliath

Stephen Paulus (b.1949)

King David´s dance

Arnolt Schlick (1455-1525)

Salve Regina

- Salve Regina

- Ad te clamamus

- Eia ergo, advocata

- O pia

- O dulcis Maria

Maria zart

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

Sonata no. 1

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Toccata & fugue in C, BWV 566