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Ernst Wally
Organist at St. Stephens
Ernst Wally, born in Vienna in 1976, is a graduate of the Vienna’s Musikgymnasium, a secondary school for aspiring musicians. |
He studied organ (under Franz Falter and Michael Radulescu), composition (under Dietmar Schermann, Michael Jarrell and Frédéric Durieux) and church music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.
Appointed Dommusik Assistant at St. Stephen’s in 2007, Ernst Wally has also taught composition, music theory and organ at Vienna’s Franz Schubert Conservatory since the autumn of 2005. He served as the principal organist of Vienna’s Karlskirche between 1995 and 2007 while still a student. He regularly serves as a liturgical organist at various well-known churches elsewhere in Vienna including the Augustinerkirche, the Jesuitenkirche and the Schottenkirche. He has also participated in numerous radio and television services. While studying abroad he was the organist of the Abbaye Sainte Marie de Paris.
He has also appeared as a concert organist in various European countries and further afield. The organ repertoire of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries features prominently in his programs. He has played the organ for multiple productions with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2005, under the direction of Simone Young and Bertrand de Billy.
His compositions include chamber music pieces, a work for large orchestra, sacred music and solo pieces for various instruments. He has received commissions from organisations including Berlin’s Guardini Foundation, Dommusik St. Stephan in Vienna (to mark Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the city), the Wiener Orgelkonzert in its 20th anniversary season in 2002, and the Carinthian Summer Music Festival. His works can be heard in numerous European countries.
Ernst Wally’s career highlights include winning the inaugural Füssen-Reutte European Organ Competition (2000), reaching the semi-finals of the 2003 Georges Cramer Foundation International Organ Competition in Saint-Maurice, Switzerland, and winning an award for his composition for large orchestra for the obligatory piece at the 4th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Weimar in 2003. He is also a founding member of composers' and performers' group, Ensemble Lux. |
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