A pipe organ made by Filipinos was recently featured in a classic music concert at the Konservatorium Goerg Friedrich Handel in Halle an der Saale, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

In a news release, the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said a pipe organ produced by Diego Cera Organbuilders, Inc., a Philippine company was featured during the "Konzert an der Diego-Cera Orgel."

The concert featured a combination of organ and vocal music performed by three young aspiring artists from Halle: pianist and composer Ekaterina Leontjewa, and her two students — pianist Christoph Baumgarten, 13; and soprano singer Jaroslawa Nikulina.

 

"Leontjewa and Baumgarten rendered classical pieces using a pipe organ produced by Diego Cera Organbuilders, Inc., a Philippine company respected for maintaining the tradition of pipe organ making that was started by Fr. Diego Cera," the DFA said.

 

Cera was the builder of the world-renowned bamboo organ of Las Piñas.

 

The DFA said the concert featured the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and contemporary Russian composers.

 

In June each year, Halle hosts one of the biggest annual music festivals dedicated to George Frideric Handel, who was born in Halle in 1685.

 

The town regularly organizes free organ concerts, playing mostly the music of Handel and his contemporaries. - VVP, GMA News