First prize in the first organ duo competition

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Lotta-Sophie Harder and Olga Mikhaylova - students in Prof. Wolfgang Zerer's organ class - have won first prize in the world's first competition for organ duos.

The competition took place from April 15 to 21 in Novi Sad, Poland. The participating duos had to convince a jury of 8 international members with a very demanding program.

Among the winners:

Lotta-Sophie Harder received her first piano lessons at the age of 6. She received organ and harpsichord lessons at the Schloss Belvedere music high school in Weimar.She has won several prizes in the national "Jugend musiziert" competition. Since October 2014, she has been studying organ with Prof. Wolfgang Zerer and harpsichord with Prof. Menno van Delft in Hamburg. Lotta-Sophie Harder has been giving piano lessons at Musikatelier Ottensen since October 2016 and guided tours of historical keyboard instruments at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg since April 2017.She won the Philip Moore Prize at the St. Albans International Organ Festival in July 2017.

Olga Mikhaylova was born in Moscow and received her first piano lessons there. After her musical education at college, she studied at the Chaykovsky Conservatory. There she passed the piano concert exam. Her studies were supplemented by an aspirant course in chamber music. During her piano studies, she became interested in the organ and studied organ playing, which she completed with a bachelor's degree in Moscow. Since the winter semester of 2013/14, Olga Mikhaylova has been studying at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg with Prof. Wolfgang Zerer (organ). She completed her master's degree in 2016.