David Christopher Bendix Nielsen (Denmark)

David Bendix, born in 1993 in Denmark, started his musical studies around the age of 7 in Hungary. He received basic piano tuition through elementary school. At the age of 13, David entered the Richter Janos Music High School in Gyor, where he studied for five years, until the summer of 2012. He studied organ as main subject with Csilla Alfoldy-Boruss, but also received education in piano, harpsichord, and one year in composition with Atilla Remenyi, and played for organ and harpsichord masterclasses with Rita Papp, Laszlo Fassang, and Peter Kuzsner. He earned an OKJ degree in organ at the finish of his High School studies in 2012. He was then admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen where he is currently pursuing his Bachelor's degree in organ and sacred music with Bine Bryndorf.

Repertoire

Round I, Part I

Muffat — Toccata VII from Apparatus musico-organisticus (1690)

J. S. Bach — “An Wasserflüssen Babylon,” BWV 653

J. S. Bach — Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532

Round I, Part II

Frescobaldi — Toccata quinta from Il secondo libro di toccate, F. 3.05

Weckmann — Canzona IV in C major

Weckmann — Variations on “Die lieblichen Blicke”

Froberger — Toccata in G major, FbWV 103

Round II

Graun — Organ Concerto in G minor – 1. Animoso

Lübeck — “Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ”

J. S. Bach — “Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter,” BWV 650

C. P. E. Bach — Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, Wq. 119/7

Final

J. S. Bach — Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 548

Hindemith — Organ Sonata No. 2

Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) — Organ Sonata No. 4 in B-flat major, op. 65