Organ matinee with Anders S Börjesson

Through Konserthuset’s popular organ matinée subscription, audiences get to hear Sweden’s leading organists play the building’s organ – one of the largest in Europe, with 6,100 pipes.  

Anders S. Börjesson has been the organist at Mariestad Cathedral since 2011, where he gives organ concerts every week. He was trained in Gothenburg by Mikael Wahlin, but also in Paris by Sophie-Veronique Cauchefer-Choplin, organist at Saint-Sulpice, one of Paris's largest churches.

Börjesson is also a composer, and we will hear his Paraphrase on Alice Tegnér's The Squirrel Sits in the Spruce Tree and Chorale Treatments. Additionally, well-known rock songs by the bands Metallica and Queen arranged for organ. The concert opens with Canadian Rachel Laurin's (born in 1961) both evocative and dramatic Prelude and Fugue, and we also get to hear the captivating March in C major by Frenchman Louis Lefébure-Wély (1817–1870).

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The bar is open before and after the concert.

You are welcome to eat or drink something before or after the organ concert. The bar in the Main Foyer is open at 11.45–12.15 and 13.15–14.15, offering a variety of delicious food and drinks in our beautiful surroundings.