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´What is an Organ Festival?´ Since the end of the nineteenth century, the organ – par excellence the musical instrument of the Church – has conquered the general public through a wide variety of cultural manifestations. Jan Willem Jansen (one of the first artistic directors of the ‘Toulouse les Orgues’ Festival) and João Vaz (artistic director the Madeira Organ Festival since its first edition) share their ideas on the future of the king of instruments. |
27 OCT | Friday 6.00 pmParticipants
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Following his studies with Jan Warmick, Willem Mesdag and Wim van Beek, in 1977 he received his soloist’s diploma from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, later continuing his studies in harpsichord with Ton Koopman in Amsterdam. He then studied further in France with Xavier Durasse, whose teaching colleague he would become at the Conservatoire of Toulouse, where he currently teaches organ and harpsichord. He is also co-founder of the Department of Early Music at the same establishment, and is responsible, with Michel Bouvard, for the new higher department of Organ and Keyboard. Co-founder in 1996, with Michael Bouvard, of the International “Toulouse les Orgues” festival, Jan Willem Jansen was for many years its artistic director. During the 1997 edition, he recorded for the Tempéraments collection the complete organ works of Nikolaus Bruhns, together with cantatas by the same composer, performed by Parlement de Musique under the direction of Martin Gester. In 1998, he recorded a CD dedicated to Joan Cabanilles, on the historic organ of the Church of San Pablo in Zaragoza. His activity as a performer has led him to play with the most important European baroque ensembles, such as La Chapelle Royale de Paris, Collegium Vocale de Gand, Hesperion XX, Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse and the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges. He is also the titular organist of the Ahrend organ of the Musée des Augustins as well as of the historic instrument at the Basilica of Notre-Dame de la Daurade in Toulouse. |
Jan Willem Jansen|
Born in Lisbon, João Vaz graduated in organ from the Higher School of Music in Lisbon, studying with Antoine Sibertin-Blanc, and from the Higher Conservatoire of Aragon, in Zaragoza, where he studies with José Luis González Uriol, on a scholarship from the Gulbenkian Foundation. He has a doctorate in music and musicology from the University of Évora, where his thesis, on Portuguese organ music from the end of the ancien regime was supervised by Rui Vieira Nery. He has been extremely active internationally, both as a performer and as a teacher on organ courses, and as a jury member in competitions. He has made more than ten solo recordings, significant among them those made on historical Portuguese organs. As performer and musicologist he has paid particular attention to Portuguese sacred music, founding in 2006 the ensemble Capella Patriarchal, which he directs. His work in transcribing and editing, which he has been published in Portugal and Spain, covers works preserved in various Portuguese libraries and archives. He currently teaches organ at the Higher School of Music in Lisbon. He is artistic director of the Madeira Organ Festival and of the concert series featuring the six organs of the Basilica of the National Palace of Mafra (for the restoration of which he was a permanent consultant) and of the historical organ of the Church of São Vicente de Fora in Lisbon, of which he became titular organist in 1997. |
João Vaz