The program in the Orgelpark for March 2023:

11/03, 14:15: Colloquium: Max Reger

Today the focus is on the organ music of Max Reger (1873-1916). Students of the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague each play a work; carefully prepared in the Orgelpark, in collaboration with their teacher Jos van der Kooij. Then they talk about it with the listeners.

12/03, 14:15: Vocaal: Ad Parnassum with Kate Moore and others

Ad Parnassum presents Nebulous Sorrow, based on Three Shakespeare Sonnets, by Aart Strootman for choir and viola, and Hedera by Kate Moore on texts of ancient prayers.

14/03, 14:15: Cursus Orgelkunde 2

Due to popular demand, the Orgelkunde Course in 2023 will once again be about organ building. How does an organ work? But also: how does sound ‘work’? What does a voicer do? Why do Italian organs sound different from German ones? Each lecture has an organist as a side-kick to teacher Hans Fidom for live music. Plenty of time on the program for questions and discussion. This course is only accessible to GastVrienden of the Orgelpark.

18/03, 20:15: Organs and soprano: Daan Manneke

Composer Daan Manneke wrote the Basler psalms on the occasion of the 900th anniversary of the Basler Münster, the largest church in Basel, where none other than Erasmus is buried.

19/03, 14:15: Vocaal: Passieconcert Wolfgang Sauseng

The Austrian composer Wolfgang Sauseng (1956) put together a passion concert with works on texts by Ingeborg Bachmann, among others. On the programme: Tot ist alles, Traversée des Ténèbres and In Augustiis for choir and organ.

21/03, 14:15: Cursus Orgelkunde 3

Due to popular demand, the Orgelkunde Course in 2023 will once again be about organ building. How does an organ work? But also: how does sound ‘work’? What does a voicer do? Why do Italian organs sound different from German ones? Each lecture has an organist as a side-kick to teacher Hans Fidom for live music. Plenty of time on the program for questions and discussion. This course is only accessible to GastVrienden of the Orgelpark.

25/03, 20:15: Organ and improvising ensemble

A program with improvisations and compositions by Guus Janssen and Theo Loevendie. The inspiration for the improvisations was found in The atlas of remote islands by Judith Schalansky. This atlas describes fifty very small islands 'where I have never been and never will be'.

28/03, 14:15: Cursus Orgelkunde 4

Due to popular demand, the Orgelkunde Course in 2023 will once again be about organ building. How does an organ work? But also: how does sound ‘work’? What does a voicer do? Why do Italian organs sound different from German ones? Each lecture has an organist as a side-kick to teacher Hans Fidom for live music. Plenty of time on the program for questions and discussion. This course is only accessible to GastVrienden of the Orgelpark.