Tabernacle Organ Virtuoso Concert with Viktor Billa

To showcase the Tabernacle organ and world-renowned organists, the 2023 Tabernacle Organ Virtuoso Performance Series presents its first concert of the year featuring Viktor Billa, Ukrainian organist and accomplished soloist, on Friday, February 3 at 7:30 p.m.

This evening’s program will include selected works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Marco Enrico Bossi, Viktor Honcharenko, Klement Slavický, Marcel Dupré, and Louis Vierne.

Viktor Billa is a Ukrainian concert organist currently studying for his doctoral degree in organ performance at Florida State University with Dr. Iain Quinn. In 2011 he graduated from the Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv with a master’s degree in organ performance. Viktor’s training and performance career developed rapidly. Immediately following graduation, he was appointed as an organist in residence of the Chernivtsi Philharmonic Hall. He traveled through Ukraine with concert performances, appearing as a soloist and collaborating with different instrumentalist choirs or orchestras. As an aspiring organist, Viktor has studied in masterclasses and workshops with many of this generation’s most influential organists, such as Heribert Metzger (Austria), James Kibbie (USA), Olivier Latry (France), and others. In 2015 Viktor was appointed as an organist at Trinity United Methodist Church in Tallahassee, Florida, where he currently serves. In 2017 Viktor released his CD Bach at Trinity, recorded at the Casavant Frères organ. For Viktor, “music is prayer without words.”

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