Tommy van Doorn | Organ

Performer

Tommy van Doorn (Boxtel)

Program

Death and resurrection during the First World War

1. Paul Gerhardt (1867-1946)
   Totenfeier (Sinfonische Dichtung für Orgel) (opus 16, 1916/1919)
   Meinem teuren juniors Freunde Werner Thiermann, gefallen für das Vaterland vor Verdun on 28. February 1916, in treuem Gedenk.
2. Max Reger (1873-1916)
   Psalm of thanksgiving (from: Sieben Stücke, opus 145, 1916)
   Deutschen Heere
3. Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
   Sonata Eroica (opus 151, 1917)
   To Monsieur Charles Marie Widor and the great country to which he belongs
   I. Rheims – Allegro moderato (O filii et filiae)
   II. Adagio molto (Tempo di marcia solenne)
   III. Verdun – Allegro moderato (La Marseillaise)
4. Georges Kriéger (1885-1914)
   Toccata (1914)
   A mon cher maître Monsieur Eugène Gigout

About the Performer

Tommy van Doorn. (1990) is active as an organist, carillon player, harmonium player, choir accompanist and musicologist.

He is the principal organist of the Sint-Petrusbasiliek in Boxtel (where he plays the monumental Smits organ from 1842) and carillon player of Boxtel, Geldrop, Schijndel, Son, Valkenswaard and Waalre. He is also the concert organist of the Smits organ (1852) of the Heilige Servatiuskerk in Schijndel. He works as a principal subject teacher of carillon at the Utrecht Conservatory and also teaches at the HKU Dutch Carillon School in Amersfoort. He also works as an organ teacher in Helmond, Boxtel and Schijndel.