Willem van Twillert (1952) received his musical education at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, with Piet Kee (organ) and Willem Bronx (piano). In 1976 he received his degree in Church Music and in 1978 his degree in Performance with distinction, and special mention for improvisation. A scholarship enabled him to specialize in early music with […]
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Willem Weijland
Willem Hülsmann
Willem Hendrik Zwart
Sylvie Mallet
Suzanne Chaisemartin
Susanna Veerman
Susanna Veerman (1975) studied at the Gnesin music school and the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow, where she obtained her diploma Choir Conducting in 1997. She obtained her diploma Master Choir Conducting at the Sweelinck Conservatoire in Amsterdam in 2001 with Jan Pasveer. In 2005, she obtained her diploma Master Organ with Ben van Oosten at […]
Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin
Sophie-Véronique CAUCHEFER-CHOPLIN was born in 1959 in Nogent-le-Rotrou, France. She grew up in a musician family where she received piano instruction as a child. After completing piano, organ and harmony courses at the Ecole Nationale de Musique of Le Mans, she entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Paris where she studied the organ […]
Sander van Marion
Ronald de Jong
Rolande Falcinelli
Piet van Egmond
The Dutch organist and choirmaster, Piet van Egmond, was born on April 14, 1912 in Amsterdam. He received his first piano and organ lessons from Wouter Westerhoud and went on to study the organ at the School of Music of the Amsterdam Conservatory under Anton H. Tierie. At the age of 15 he made his […]
Pierre Pincemaille
Philippe Cauchefer
Peter Eilander
Olivier Pennin
Odile Pierre
Michelle Leclerc
Maurice Clerc
Matthijs Koene
Marie-Madeleine Duruflé
Marie-Louise Langlais
Louis Robilliard
Louis Robilliard is an organ teacher at the Conservatoire National de Région de Lyon and the main organist of the great Cavaillé-Coll organ at the St.-François-de-Sales in the same city. He is both a teacher and performing musician, which enables him to make numerous tours throughout France and abroad. His recorded works, dedicated to the […]
Klaas Jan Mulder
Klaas Jan Mulder (1930-2008), was a Dutch organist with a career spanning decades. For his 25th anniversary as a concert organist, he made recordings at César Franck’s organ in the St. Clotilde in Paris. Fifteen years later, he travelled to Toulouse for the Festivo music label, where he performed on the then recently renovated Cavaillé-Coll […]
Jos van der Kooy
Jeanne Demessieux
French organist and composer Jeanne Demessieux (1921 – 1968) was legendary even during her lifetime. Her art of playing enchanted the hearts of many listeners in many European countries, the United States and Canada. “She came, she played, she conquered,” was a journalist’s brief summary. Critics praised her musicality, technique and talent for improvisation. She […]
Jean-Pierre Leguay
Jean-Pierre Leguay (born 1939) is a French organist, composer and improviser. He studied with André Marchal, Rolande Falcinelli, Olivier Messiaen and others. He served as titular organist at Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Paris from 1961 to 1984, followed by a position as co-titular organist at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, from 1985 until his retirement in 2016. […]
Jean-Paul Imbert
Jean-Luc Etienne
Jean Langlais
Jean Guillou
Jean Guillou was a French composer, organist, pianist, and pedagogue. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Marcel Dupré, Maurice Duruflé and Olivier Messiaen. In 1955, he accepted a position as professor of organ and composition at the Institute of Sacred Music in Lisbon and wrote his first compositions. After a few years in Berlin, […]
Jan van Wingerden
The musical aptitude of organist Jan van Wingerden became apparent at an early age, and at the age of eleven he accompanied the congregational singing during church services. Piet Meijer was his teacher for piano, and Wim van der Panne and Ben van Oosten were his teachers for the instrument in which his heart lies, […]
Jan Mulder
Herman van der Horst
Herman van der Horst (Alblasserdam, 1910 – Haarlem, 1976) was a Dutch film director, producer and screenwriter. He become famous with his feature film Faja Lobbi (1960), a documentary in color about the interior parts of Suriname, which won a Golden Bear for best documentary at the Berlin Film Festival that year, and ‘The Ward […]
Henk Klop
Françoise Renet
Born in Paris in 1924, FRANÇOISE RENET studied with Marcel Dupré at the Conservatoire de Paris where the First Prize for Organ and Improvisation was awarded to her in 1949. She was chosen by Marcel Dupré and remained his assistant at Saint-Sulpice from 1955 to 1971, when the composer died. Hers was the painful honour […]
Feike Asma
Feike Asma was born in 1912 in Den Helder, where his father was organist of the Gereformeerde Kerk. He succeeded his father at the age of fourteen and studied organ with Jan Zwart from 1927 until Zwart died in 1937. Asma later studied orchestra direction with Eduard Flipse and at the Academia Musicale in Siena […]
Evan Bogerd
Evan Bogerd (1993) is an international concert organist. He began organ lessons with Herman van Vliet in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. He completed his organ studies at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Jos van der Kooy summa cum laude. Bogerd participated in masterclasses at the International Organ Academy Altenberg for Organ Improvisation with Wolfgang […]
Emilia Baranowska
Elena van Slogteren
Dirk Jansz. Zwart
Dirk Jan Warnaar
Denis Frémin
Daniel Roth
Daniel Roth is a French organist and composer. He was born in Mulhouse, Vichy France, in 1942, and studied with amongst others Rolande Falcinelli and Maurice Duruflé. In 1963, Roth became Falcinelli’s deputy at the Basilique du Sacré-Coeur in Paris. In 1973, he succeeded her as titular organist. He was titular organist at the Saint-Sulpice […]
Christine Kamp
Christine Kamp (Strasbourg, France 1966) studied organ at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam with Jacques van Oortmerssen and Ewald Kooiman. She completed her organ studies with Jan Raas at the Utrecht Conservatory, where, in addition to church music, she also specialized in chamber music and song accompaniment with Thom Bollen. Kamp attended master classes for […]
Bruno Mathieu
Bruno Mathieu (born 23 March 1958) is a French organist. He studied organ with Jean Langlais, Suzanne Chaisemartin, Jean Guillou, Marie-Claire Alain, and composition with Pierre Lantier, as well as piano with France Clidat and Gisèle Kühn. He is the organist of the Church of Saint-Justin de Levallois-Perret. He teaches organ at the 20th arrondissement […]
Arie J. Keijzer
André van Vliet
Adriaan C. Schuurman
Addie de Jong
Herman van Vliet
Herman van Vliet studied organ at the Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands, with Stoffel van Viegen, Cor Kee and Willem Mudde. He was appointed organist in Bodegraven, Oudewater and Woerden, and in 1990 of the Sint-Joriskerk in Amersfoort. In the years 1983-1987, he included the ten organ symphonies by Charles-Marie Widor in his repertoire. The […]