Jevgeņija Ļisicina

Organist Yevgenia Lissitsina was born near Moscow and grew up in the Urals. She completed a course in piano with Prof. Vladimir Nielsen at the Rimsky-Korsakov Leningrad State Conservatory. She continued her studies at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Conservatory (now the Latvian Academy of Music). In 1968, she graduated Prof. Nikolajs Vanadziņš’s organ class. She is also a laureate of the Čiurlionis international organist competition in Vilnius, Lithuania. She has given over a thousand concerts in cities of the former Soviet Union as well as in many European countries including Germany, Italy, Belgium and France. She has successfully participated in several international festivals. Yevgenia Lissitsina's repertoire includes all of Johann Sebastian Bach's compositions for organ as well as works by César Franck, Max Reger, Olivier Messiaen, Ferenc Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn and many Latvian composers. She has authored transcriptions of Gloria (for choir and orchestra) and The Four Seasons (for organ) by Vivaldi, Pictures from an Exhibition (for organ and percussion) by Mussorgsky, Ancient Suite (for organ) by Schnittke, works by Bach and Beethoven, and other classical and contemporary compositions. Yevgenia Lissitsina has recorded over twenty LPs and six CDs, and has an extensive library of sound recordings in the archive of Latvian Radio. In 1989-90, a survey of readers of the major newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda revealed that two records by Yevgenia Lissitsina were among the ten most popular classical music records in Russia.