Thu, 22. 10. 2026, 19:00 hrs.
B1 Katta | Light and the Organ
Venue: Zlín Congress Centre | Organizer: Filharmonie Bohuslava Martinů, o.p.s. |
Katta | organ, vocals
Societas Incognitorum | vocal ensemble
Tomáš Brauner | conductor
Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Wagner | The Flying Dutchman. Overture to the Opera
Katta | Missa Organi
Jean Sibelius | Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82
Our special guest in this Series B opening concert is the organist and composer Katta, who has built an international reputation as a performer of the classical repertoire and as a composer with a musical language of her own. She will be playing the eye-catching elegant white organ on which she regularly performs her work, combining the traditional sound of the instrument with her own vocals.
The concert, under the baton of Tomáš Brauner, opens with the overture to Richard Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman, inspired by the composer's stormy voyage from Riga to London in 1839.
We then move on to the highlight of the evening, the Missa Organi, an original organ mass by the artist Katta, in which the theme of water is transformed into a spiritual symbol and a structural element of the entire work. The composition uses Latin and Old Slavonic liturgical texts, with the choice of languages reflecting the liturgical environment in which the composer is grounded and her affinity with Slavic tradition. Katta combines the organ and vocal parts in this piece into a single whole, and an integral part of the performance is a special lighting set which highlights the structure of the composition.
We conclude with Jean Sibelius's Fifth Symphony completed in 1915 as a monumental tribute to Nordic nature. Sibelius compared this work to a great river and crowned its finale with the famous horn motif which he described as a "swan hymn."