The Twelfth Season of the Second Sunday Basilica Recital Series continues on October 13th with German concert organist, HANS U. HIELSCHER, performing works of Guilmant, Rheinberger, Chaminade and others.
Hans U. Hielscher has been organist at the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden (Lutheran Cathedral of Nassau), Germany, since 1979. His studies were at the Detmold State Academy of Music and in Paris/Rouen, France. He also studied carillon at The Nederlandse Beiaardschool in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. Hans has presented more than 4,000 organ recitals around the globe, his concert tours have taken him to all European countries, the United States (75 U.S. tours), Bahamas, Israel, Iceland, South Africa, and multiple times to Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Bangkok. He has been featured on radio and TV broadcasts, 22 CD recordings on various international labels and is the author of the books "Alexandre Guilmant - Life and Work", "Famous Organs in the U.S.A.", "The Organ of Wiesbaden Marktkirche". He is a published composer of some 60 works for organ. Hans has been honoured by the French government in Paris for his worldwide engagement in French organ music and nominated "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" in 1985. In 2019, the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art in the Capital City of Wiesbaden awarded him the "Certificate of Honor for Art and Culture".
The program will also be livestreamed on the Mission Dolores Basilica Facebook page.
The program is free and donations are accepted in support of the Basilica Music Ministries
Sunday, 4 p.m. Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th and Dolores Sts., San Francisco.