Franz Hauk plays Bach on Porto's Cathedral Organ anniversary

Honoured German Organist and Maestro Franz Hauk will interpret Bach, Mozart, Helmschrott and Vierne at the commemorative concert of the 32nd anniversary of Porto Cathedral Organ which takes place 19 October at 9.30 pm.

This is a free entry event, and features Johann Sebastian Bach (E Flat Major BWV 552,1; Coral: "Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele" BWV 654; E-flat Major BWV 552,2), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (F minor KV 608) and Robert Maximilian Helmschrott (Ex oriente lux), and concludes with Louis Vierne (Westminster Carillon op. 54/6).

Franz Hauk was born in 1955 in Newcastle on the river Danube, a town which is the capital of the Neuburg-Schrobenhausen district in the state of Bavaria in Germany. He has studied music and sacred music in particular, as well as the piano and organ in music conservatoires in Munich and Salzburg.

His teachers were Aldo Schoen, Gerhard Weinberger, Franz Lehrndorfer and Edgar Krapp. 

He is an investigator of Performance practices and he is a regular panel member of piano competition juries.

Franz Hauk is an organist since 1982 and he is, as of 1995, Maestro of the Ingolstadt Cathedral Choir. He is also a member of the German Ministry of Culture in Ingolstadt.