Bio

LIUDMILA MATSYURA – internationally acclaimed concert organist, pianist and teacher with prominent career of more than thirty years. She started her career in Russia and has held Spanish citizenship for many years. Liudmila Matsyura graduated from M. I. Glinka Conservatory (c. Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) with the distinguished diplomas of organist and pianist under the supervision of famous Russian organist and professor G. I. Kozlova , Moscow school.
Liudmila Matsyura started her professional career at the Irkutsk Philharmonic, Russia, where she held the position of Concert Organist for sixteen years and grew enormously as a soloist. She performed also in trios and duos and collaborated with numerous soloists and choirs. Apart from her performing career, Liudmila Matsyura was piano teacher at the Conservatory and at the State Academy of Music in Irkutsk.

Throughout her career the organist has perfected her skills at the International Academies of Innsbruck, Zurich, Haarlem, Florence and Salamanca, with the great masters organists as: Jean Guillou, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Guy Bovet, Leo Kremer, Piet Kee, Ewald Kooiman, Harald Vogel, Lionnel Rogg, Marie Claire Alain and Montserrat Torrent among others.
He has also received a specialty in: harpsichord with the great teacher Zuzanna Ruzichkova, in choir conducting with the teachers L. Sivukhin and V. Schipunov; and vocal technique, with G.Marina.

Her current repertoire includes works from the fifteenth century to the present day. It also contains complete catalogs of J. S. Bach, F. Mendelssohn and C. Franck.

Bright performances of Liudmila Matsyura in International Organ Festivals are widely recognized in fifteen European countries, Russia and Israel.

  Artist had a chance to play in the most famous European Cathedrals and Concert halls, such as Notre-Dame de Paris, Salzburg Cathedral (Austria), Si. Gile´s Cathedral of Edinburgh (Scotland), Cathedral of Porto (Portugal), Antwerp and Bruges Cathedrals (Belgium), Basilica St. Bonifaz in Munich, Spanish Cathedrals as in Palma de Mallorca, Salamanca, Alcalá, Basilica of El Escorial, the Chapel of the Royal Palace of Madrid and performed in the National Auditorium of Music in Madrid.

Liudmila Matsyura as an organist participated in numerous radio and TV programs; Is the author of the program cycle “The universe in organ sounds” at the National Radio of Spain; She professionally recorded numerous CDs and DVDs; acted a member of the jury of many international competitions. Cooperates with various collectives and soloists.
As the Conductor and Artistic director of the Lyrical Choir, Miguel de Cervantes (2013-2017) she produced a large number of memorable concert programs.

In 2015 Liudmila Matsyura was granted a prestigious award “Fernando VI” as an outstanding citizen of San Fernando de Henares (Madrid).

In June 2019, Liudmila Matsyura inaugurated with an organ concert  in the Chapel of the Royal Palace of Madrid the celebration of the 500th anniversary acts of the first bilateral relations between Russia and Spain.

From 2006 this prominent international organist is the titular organist of the Cathedral-Magistral of Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), is the promoter and artistic director of the International Organ Festival “Cathedral of Alcalá” and the Organ Cycle in the Cathedral. 

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