Taras Baginets - Organ

Taras Baginets is a soloist with the Sverdlovsk State Academic Philharmonic Society, as both organist and harpsichordist. He is the founder and artistic director of the International Bach-Fest, which is held annually in Yekaterinburg in March.
              
He graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of Arts in piano and organ (with prof. S. Yushkevich), and the St. Petersburg State University with the award of the degree of Master of Arts and the Humanities (with prof. A.Panov, prof.D.Zaretsky) He undertook further studies with leading European professors: Heinrich Walther (Germany), Michael Radulescu (Austria), Hans Fagius (Sweden), SzigmundSzatmary (Germany), LudgerLohmann (Germany) and was a winner/prize-winner in 10 international competitions in Germany, Russia and Lithuania.
 
​For 20 years TarasBaginets has performed in concert halls of Russia, in prestigious halls of Europe; including on historical organs of the XVII-XIXth centuries: Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, St. Thomas church in Leipzig, St. Jacobs and St.Michaelischurches in Hamburg, the Riga Dom, Niguliste church in Tallinn, St. Benigne in Dijon, Lausanne Cathedral, Lübecker Dom, Moscow Catholic Cathedral and many others. Regularly invited to participate in large international organ festivals in Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Sweden, Finland, and has appeared in numerous concerts in Ukraine, Denmark, Czekhia, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova and Austria.

Hid broad, eclectic repertoire allows him to tailor programmes to suit any organ and setting .During each season Taras Baginets gives more than 50 concerts, submits not less than 15 solo different concert programs, performing with orchestras, soloists, and is an active figure in organ education.
 
He has recorded four CD's: "Johann Sebastian Bach organ music" (Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2000) "Golden era of organ music. Germany" (Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2005) "I. S. Bach. Choral preludes from Leipzig Autograph", 1st part, (Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2012) "I. S. Bach and his French contemporaries " (Strasbourg, 2014, recorded on historical organ of J.A.Silbermann, 1741).