On Thursday, March 7, the Dutch Music Prize will be awarded to Laurens de Man in Het Orgelpark. Reason enough for a party. This evening Laurens de Man will perform together with musicians from the New European Ensemble in Martijn Padding’s brand new organ concerto: ‘Organ Concerto (Reve Concert)’. The rarely performed Kammersymfonie no 7 by Paul Hindemith is also on the program.

The versatile musician De Man studied piano, organ and harpsichord at the Amsterdam Conservatory. He obtained the highest marks for his further studies at the University of the Arts in Berlin in 2019. In addition to his solo career, De Man is active as a pianist with the Chimaera Trio, where he plays and arranges chamber music from four centuries of music history. Since 2012, De Man has fulfilled the role of main organist in the Utrecht Janskerk and in the period 2022-2023 he was ‘Organist in Residence’ of the Contius organ in Leuven. He is also a minor classical piano teacher for jazz pianists at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and has been appointed principal subject teacher of organ at the Utrecht Conservatory since September 2023.

About the Dutch Music Prize

Winners of the Dutch Music Prize follow a study program in which personal musical development is central. They work together with musicians from home and abroad. After the end of the process, the Dutch Music Prize committee will advise the Performing Arts Fund whether the prize can be awarded. The committee consists of: Mauricio Fernandez, Ad ‘s-Gravesande, Marcel Mandos, Simone Meijer, Bart Visman, Ralph van Raat and Karin Manuel as independent chairman.

Programme

Tielman Susato (1500-1570) – La Mourisque
Anoniem: Buxheimer Orgelbuch 2 (ca. 1460) – O dulcis Maria
Gerard Bunk (1888-1958) – Scherzando opus 54 nr 2
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) – Transports de Joie
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) – Sinfonia uit Cantate BWV 146
Martijn Padding (1956) – Organconcerto (premiere)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) – Kammermusik no. 7: Konzert für Orgel und Kammerorchester