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Willem van Twillert
 Willem
van Twillert studied at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam with
Piet Kee (organ) and Willem Brons (piano). In 1976 he obtained the
diploma for Church Music and in 1978 the diploma for Performing Musician
“cum laude”, with the teaching-endorsement for improvisation.
A scholarship gave him the opportunity to specialise in early music
with Gustav Leonhardt (organ), Anneke Uittenbosch (harpsichord) and
Klaas Bolt (style-improvisation). Courses with Daniel Roth, Ewald
Kooiman, (Literature) and Hans Haselböck, Zsigmond Szathmáry
and Peter Planyavsky (for improvisation) have enriched his organ playing.
Willem van Twillert has written numerous Psalm and Chorale-based compositions
which have been printed in the Netherlands and issued on CD, his Toccata
“Praised be the Father in romantic style” has been published
in Germany by J. Butz, and his Toccata à la Chaconne (featured
in the exhibition-concert on 7th October) won both second prize and
the audience prize at the Hinsz Composition Competion at the Bovenkerk
(Kampen) in 2005. Willem has become a well-known musician at home
and abroad through his many concert performances in the Netherlands,
Germany, Italy and America, and through a series of CD’s he
recorded featuring rarely performed organ music. He has also edited
for various Dutch music publishers (most notably a fifteen-volume
series entitled Organist Composers of the 18th and 19th Centuries)
and he is one of the editors for the monthly journal, de Orgelvriend
(the Organfriend). As a church organist, he has accompanied the services
of three cooperating churches in Amersfoort since 1979. From 1976
until 2003 Willem van Twillert was the director of a private music
school in Bunschoten, and between 1980 and 1988 he taught organ at
the Municipal Academy of Music in Zwolle. In 2004 he gave master-classes
at the Music Academy of Sarajevo (Bosnia). He has produced and broadcast
several radio programmes, including The Historical Organ in Holland
(1999) and Dutch Organs (2004).
Toccata
a la Chaconne (2005) was performed during the
2006 AFNOM festival in London.
Contact information
Willem van Twillert
Pastorielaan 131
Amersfoort / Hoogland
3828E2
Holland
Tel: +31 33 455 32 56
Email: twillert_organist@hetnet.nl
www.willemvantwillert.nl
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