Lunchtime Organ Music: Nicolas Kilhoffer

French organist Nicolas Kilhoffer presents this exciting program of music by Buxtehude, Bruhns and Bach on the cathedral’s Hellmuth Wolff organ. Admission by Donation.

Born in 2002 in Saverne (Eastern France), Nicolas Kilhoffer first began studying piano at the age of 7. After teaching himself the organ and playing at church from the age of 10, he was taught at the music school in his hometown before being admitted in 2017 to the Conservatoire in Strasbourg where his teachers included Daniel Maurer (organ and improvisation), Elyette Weil (piano) and Gaël Lozac’h (harmony).

Nicolas Kilhoffer has also attended several masterclasses given by Philippe Lefebvre, Vincent Dubois, Thierry Escaich and Thomas Ospital, and now has the opportunity to study under the guidance of Johann Vexo (choir organist at Notre-Dame de Paris) in addition to his Conservatory program.

He regularly performs concerts in France, the United States, and Austria, which significantly feature improvisation and he has had the opportunity to play many instruments during recent internships in Australia and New Caledonia. He recently performed a recital at All Saints’ Cathedral in Nairobi, Kenya, and taught a masterclass attended by many organists of East Africa. Carrying out business studies, Nicolas Kilhoffer is studying at the University of Victoria during this semester.

Program

Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Toccata in F major, BuxWV 156

Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-1697)
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue, BWV 564

Nicolas Kilhoffer (b. 2002)
Improvisation