The annual Symposium & Festival of the Orgelpark Research Program aims to function as a platform for leading musicologists in organ music related musicology in the widest sense, by inviting them to present lectures, workshops, masterclasses and concerts. Another function of the Symposium & Festival is to present and discuss the Orgelpark Research Team's research itself so far.
To strengthen the international organ related musicology network, the Orgelpark Research Program cooperates regularly with other institutions. These include the International Musicological Society (IMS), the International Society of Organ Builders (ISO, annual congress 2008 held in the Orgelpark), the Netherlands' professional association for musicology (KVNM), the Göteborg Organ Art Center (GoArt, Sweden), the Forschungsgruppe Basel für Improvisation (FBI), etc.
Some of these cooperations lead to symposia, congresses and colloquia next to the Orgelpark's own Symposium & Festival. You are warmly invited to join us on these special occasions, which will all take place in the Orgelpark:
2009, 13-16 May
Orgelpark Symposium & Festival: Improvisation Project, including the Dutch National Improvisation Competition. Click on the link at the left for more information.
2009, 4-5 July
Launch of a new Study group under the auspices of the International Musicological Society (IMS, led by Prof Dr Emile Wennekes, Utrecht University), preceding the annual IMS congress in Amsterdam.
2009, 3-6 September
Annual Congress of the Walcker-Stiftung (Walcker-Foundation, Germany). Theme: German and French romantic organ music. Featuring organists Andreas Sieling (Berlin, Dom) and Matthias Havinga, and lecturers including Prof Dr Hermann J. Busch and Paul Peeters (GoArt).
2010, 15 May
Symposium of the International Association for Organ Documentation (IAOD), discussing the link between organ building and organ improvisation.
