Organ festival | Jan Verschuren, TU/e organist

Performer

Jan Verschuren, University Organist

Program

1. Andrew Carter (*1939)
   Festival Fanfare and Processional
2. Berthold Tours (1838 – 1897)
   Allegretto grazioso
3. Théodore Dubois (1837 – 1924)
   Toccata
4. Charles-Marie Widor (1844 – 1937)
   Allegro cantabile from Symphonie V
5. William Walton (1902 – 1983)
   Spitfire Prelude
6. Clive Jenkins (*1938)
   Lullaby for Peregrine White
7. Carson Cooman (*1982)
   Plymouth Soundings
8. Marko Hakanpää (*1970)
   Summer Fanfare
9. Ronald de Jong (*1956)
   Dance Rythmique
10. Pierre Cochereau (1924 – 1984)
    Suite à la française
    – Minuet: “V’là l’ bon vent”
    /> – Toccata: “Marche des Rois”

About the performer

Jan Verschuren (1962) started playing the piano at the age of ten with Kees Luyckx. He studied electrical engineering at the TU in Eindhoven and organ with Hub. Houët. He continued his organ studies with Reitze Smits at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven and completed this with a first prize. At At the Utrecht Conservatory he studied – also with Reitze Smits – for the degree of ‘performing’ musician.

In 2006 he was appointed University Organist at the Eindhoven University of Technology.