THE-ORG

The duo THE-ORG | THEremin + pipe ORGan with Andrew Levine and Kerstin Petersen came together in October 2025 and played their first concert plus spontaneous, subsequent session at the Altonaer Vielfaltswoche. The results will be released as two singles…

This track was the penultimate piece recorded in the session after the concert

“Flocks of Metallic Birds” was released on Nachtstück Records.

This track comprises the final piece recorded in the session after the concert

“Distant Trains” was released on October 28.

…and the four-track album “Wolkenschlösser” (Cloud Castles) is scheduled to be released with blumlein records on November 1st.

The four tracks: Found in Hiding / Bright Red / Magma / Mostly Windy

Kerstin Petersen (1968*) was born in Rhineland-Palatinate, studied church music in Herford, early music in Bremen, concert organ in Heidelberg, and is now an internationally sought-after performer.

She has received concert invitations from TONALi, St. Nikolai Church in Hamburg, the Frequenz_ Festival, the Mercatorhalle Philharmonic in Duisburg, St. Martin’s Church in Kassel, and the Gothenburg Organ Academy, among others. She recently gave world premieres at the Orgelpark Amsterdam, the Dresden Frauenkirche, the Archdiocese of Paderborn, and the Musik 21 Festival. A composition scholarship from the state of Schleswig-Holstein enabled her to compose and premiere her organ work “MY LADY” in 2024, based on the altarpiece of St. Mary with the Unicorn Hunt (1506) in Lübeck Cathedral.

Since 2025, she has directed the concert series “Auf der Zinne^ – neuer Klang!” (On the Battlements – New Sound) in Hamburg, which is dedicated to unknown chamber music for pipe organ. Her CD SiGNALE (2025, Genuin) was nominated for the „Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik“ (German Record Critics’ Award). Together with Ada Namani (gong) and Lenka Zupkova (violin), she was awarded the RESONANZEN Concept Prize by VISION KIRCHENMUSIK and the Hanns Lilje Foundation in 2025.