The White Hat Guide to Melbourne Town Hall

Free Tour of Melbourne Town Hall

Organ-ic Lunch with Jean-Christophe Geiser

White Hat suggests you go out of your way to enjoy a free lunchtime organ concert with Jean-Christophe Geiser, one of Europe's most respected organists playing music well suited to wonderful town hall monster.

Jean-Christophe Geiser has enjoyed a rapid career since 1991 when, at the age of 26, he was awarded the prestigious position of titular organist of the Cathedral of Lausanne, Switzerland's most important gothic building. Jean-Christophe is currently dean of the organ and harpsichord department at the University of Music of Lausanne and is also artistic director of the Cathedral’s Concert Society. he has performed in numerous countries throughout Europe, America and the former Soviet Union as a concert organist, regularly sponsored by the Pro Helvetia Foundation. He has been invited to perform in the cathedrals of Hamburg, Cologne, Helsinki, Brussels, Oslo and Washington DC among others.

• Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude in E Minor (BWV 548/1); Chorale Prelude "Erbarme Dich mein, O Herre Gott" (BWV 721); Fugue in E Minor (BWV 548/2)
• Guy Ropartz Prélude funèbre
• Louis Vierne Carillon (from Pièces en style libre)
• Julien-François Zbinden Interlude on the name of Tristan
• Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély Boléro de concert
• Louis Vierne Prélude (from Pièces en style libre); Carillon de Westminster (from Pièces de fantaisie)