Jevgenija Lisicina

Yevgeniya Vladimirovna Lissizyna ( Latvian Jevgenija Lisičina, Russian Евгения Владимировна Лисицына, English transcription: Jevgenija Lisicina; born November 11, 1942 in Stupino, Russia) is a Latvian organist of Russian descent.

Career

In 1968 she won the 2nd prize at Čiurlionis Competition (named after Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis ) in Vilnius in organ. She is organist at the cathedral in Riga and has given over a thousand concerts in the Soviet Union and its successor states as well as in European countries, including Germany, Italy, France and Belgium. Between 1999 and 2001 she starred in a cycle of the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach on the cathedral organ in Riga. This project was in conjunction with the 800th anniversary of the city Riga, which took place in 2001, realized.

Lissizyna has written several works of transcriptions for the organ, including Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and Mussorgkskis Modest Pictures at an Exhibition, the latter for organ and percussion instruments. 1989/90, two of her recordings have been voted one of the ten best classical plates in the Soviet Union in a poll of readers of the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda.