Hill Festival
for the 15th Uckermark Organ Spring Festival
Programme
Saturday,16 May 2026
10:30 a.m., St. Mary’s‑Church
Festive Service for the Organ Dedication
Works by Marcel Dupré, Percy Fletcher and Sir William Walton
Organist
District Cantor Hannes Ludwig (Prenzlau)
13:00 p.m., Market Square
Highland-Games
19:30 p.m., St. Mary’s‑Church
Concert: God Save the King!
Works by Edward Elgar, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Johann Sebastian Bach, Max Reger, Marcel Dupré, and two world premieres
Organists
City Organist Thomas Trotter (Birmingham)
State Church Music Director Prof. Dr. Kennel (Berlin)
Martin Rost (St. Mary’s Church, Stralsund)
District Cantor Hannes Ludwig (Prenzlau)
Friday,15 May 2026
10:00 a.m., St. Mary’s‑Church
Baroque Treasures – An Organ Journey through the Uckermark
10:00 Uhr – Abfahrt St. Marien Prenzlau
10:15 Uhr – Ankunft in Sternhagen
11:00 Uhr – Abfahrt nach Gerswalde
11:30 Uhr – Ankunft in Gerswalde
12:30 Uhr – Mittagessen in Gerswalde
13:15 Uhr – Abfahrt nach Angermünde
14:00 Uhr – Ankunft in Angermünde
15:00 Uhr – Abfahrt nach Gramzow
15:30 Uhr – Ankunft in Gramzow
16:30 Uhr – Abfahrt nach Prenzlau
17:00 Uhr – Ankunft St. Marien Prenzlau
12:00 p.m., St. Mary’s‑Church
Pipe Watch
Tom Ferguson, Glasgow
19:30 p.m., St. Mary’s‑Church
Concert: “Virtuoso Transcriptions”
Classical masterpieces arranged for the organ by one of the world’s finest organists. Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Frideric Handel, Gustav Holst, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Organists
Jonathan Scott, Manchester
Saturday,16 May 2026
13:00 p.m., St. James‑Church
The Hill Organ Documentary
Regisseur Ricardo Wittig
14:00 p.m., St. James‑Church
Lecture: Organs in Scotland and the Hill Organ Builders
Chris Bragg (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
John Maidment (Melbourne)
15:00 p.m., St. James‑Church
Coffee Break
15:30 p.m., St. James‑Church
Book Presentation: “Hill & Son – Organ Builders to the British Royal Family”
District Cantor Hannes Ludwig (Prenzlau)
19:30 p.m., St. Mary’s‑Church
Concert: “Last Night of the Proms”
Works for two organs, choir, and orchestra by Franz Liszt, Louis Vierne, John Rutter, and Edward Elgar
Organists
Prof. Henry Fairs (Berlin, Birmingham)
District Cantor Hannes Ludwig (Prenzlau)
Performers
Prenzlau Cantorei
Rehearsal Direction: Hannes Ludwig
Uckermark Concert Choir
Rehearsal Direction: Jürgen Bischof, Jakub Rabizo
Academic Choir of the West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin
Rehearsal Direction: Prof. Szymon Wyrzykowski
Prussian Chamber Orchestra in sinfonischer Besetzung
Conductor: Jürgen Bischof
Sunday,17 May 2026
11:00 a.m., St. Mary’s‑Church
Concert: Organ Matinee
Chris Bragg (St. Andrews University)
12:00 p.m., St. Mary’s‑Church
Open Stage – Play the Hill Organ Yourself
15:30 p.m.,, St. Mary’s‑Church
Service: Choral Evensong
Organists
District Cantor Hannes Ludwig (Prenzlau)
The English Choir Berlin
Direction: William Peart