Friday concert

Works by Frescobaldi, Bach, Brahms and improvisation. Johannes Lang (Leipzig), organ. Free admission. Johannes Lang (b. 1989) took up the post of organist at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig on 6 January 2022 and has since taken part in services, motet performances, concerts and organ tours in the church. He trained at the Musikhochschule Freiburg (in church music, harpsichord and with a concert diploma in organ playing), has won competitions in Lübeck (Buxtehude Competition 2009), Bellelay (2011) and Leipzig (Bach Competition 2012) and worked as cantor at the Friedenskirche in Potsdam-Sanssouci until 2022. He teaches organ at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig, where he was appointed professor on 20 December 2023. His initiative for the project "Gravity Bach" has attracted particular attention; on Reformation Day in 2025 he performed Johann Sebastian Bach's complete organ works over the course of 22 hours in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig.