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Pieter Assendelft

After a beautiful concert last week together with one of my students in Eckelrade, Friday 13 July I’ll play on the one-manual organ built by Pieter Assendelft in 1748, located nowadays in the Christus Hemelvaartkerk, Sittard. Both organs in Eckelrade and Sittard are the same for their one manual setup […]

Concert at the Hinsz organ

22 June  I’ll play in the Grote Kerk in Harlingen. I’m very pleased to have the opportunity to play on the recently restored Hinsz organ, built in 1776. I’ll perform music mainly from the 18th century, together with a funny Tango by Guy Bovet. Time: 20 hrs.    

Bach is always exciting

After a magnificent performance last Thursday of the Mass for two organs by Louis Vierne with the Cappella Sancti Servatii , Arno Kerkhof at the second organ (Harmonium) and conductor Hans Heykers, , tonight we’ll perform works by the great J.S. Bach in cooperation with Studium Chorale, conducted by Hans […]

Whitsunday Concert

20 May at 15.30 Marcel Verheggen will perform a concert in the Sint-Servaasbasiliek which will be related to Whitsunday. It is an interesting program with the rarely performed ‘Triple Choral’ by Charles Tournemire, a meditation by Max Reger upon the Whitsunday song ‘Komm, Heiliger Geist, Herre Gott’, and the complete […]

Bach’s Birthday

Wednesday 21 March I’ll play music by the great J.S. Bach, together with Studium Chorale which will perform the beautiful motet Jesu Meine Freude. Place: Amsterdam, Orgelpark. It is the presentation of the new Baroque organ! You can have a look here: Het-nieuwe-Utopa-Barokorgel:-Koor-&-Orgel-–-Johann-Sebastian-Bach@20:15 

Organ concerts until October

23 August Arnhem Eusebiuskerk 20.00 hrs   30 August Dordrecht Grote Kerk 20.00 hrs   9 September Maastricht Sint Servaas 17 hrs   10 September Venray Petrus-Bandenkerk 16 hrs   26 September Aachen Dom 19.00 hrs   8 October Orgelpark Amsterdam 14.30 hrs   14 October Leiden Waalse kerk 16.30 […]

Olivier Messiaen

On the 21st of February Marcel Verheggen performed a number of works by Oliver Messiaen during the Olivier Messiaen Weekend. A video impression of the festival can be found here. The organ starts at 17.15, during which the Transport de joi from L’ascension is being played.