The Orgelpark is first and foremost an international stage for musicians, composers and other artists. But in the background it is also develops the 'Orgelpark Research Program', a series of musicological projects. These pages are dedicated to the Research Program. They are in English, since the Program is based on an international network.
Each spring the individual projects which make up the Research Program will be presented during a Symposium & Festival, discussing the links between researching music and making music and vice versa: at the Orgelpark, music and musicology are considered two interdependent sides of the same coin.
Musicology at the Orgelpark
The Orgelpark has several reasons to treat musicology as an integral part of its mission, which is to present the organ in new ways, thus integrating it into the wider music culture. The wish to provide the audience with well-written, colorfully-presented information about the music the Orgelpark presents, is self-evident. Secondly, we believe that the Netherlands, being an organ paradise, is frankly obliged to find a place for serious organ music related research.
Two levels
Consequently, musicology at the Orgelpark functions on two levels. The first one, which we might call the 'popular' level, has already become an essential element of the Orgelpark's 'product-range': the magazine TIMBRES speaks, as it were, for itself. The projects of the Orgelpark Research Program, and the resulting cooperation and networking in the musicological field, represent the next level of musicology at the Orgelpark.
2008-2011: Improvisation Project
The first Research Project focuses on Improvisation. Read more here about the background and structure of the Improvisation Project, which will last until 2011. Visit our Symposium & Festival about this very special way of making music: it's taking place on 13-16 May 2009. You're welcome!
Research Team: interested?
The Orgelpark Research Program is carried out by an international research team. The team does not exclusively consist of musicologists: we also invite other musicians and researchers to join us. Are you interested in dedicating (part of) your musicological or performance studies to organ-art related research? If so, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Director
The Research Program is directed by Dr Hans Fidom, who is also in charge of the Orgelpark magazine TIMBRES. He completed his PhD in 2002 at the Free University in Amsterdam (Ars Organi, Prof Dr Ewald Kooiman).
More information
Contact Hans Fidom for more information.
