Geert D'hollander Antwerp Cathedral
Concert on Sunday, May 27 at 4 p.m.
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Geert D'hollander
Geert D'hollander, born in 1965 in Sankt Niklaas,
Belgium,
studied piano, composition, choral conducting, harmony, and fugue at
the
Antwerp Conservatory and obtained his Masters there in 1987. He had
already
been awarded a carillon diploma with highest honours in 1982 from the
Royal
Carillon School Jef Denyn in Mechelen, where he has been teaching
carillon and
composition since 1983. He is the city carillonneur of Antwerp, Gent,
Lier, and
Sankt Niklaas and was carillonneur at the University of California at
Berkeley
from 1997 til 1999. D'hollander gives regular concerts in Europe,
Canada, and
the USA and has won prizes at many carillon and composition contests,
among
others at the Queen Fabiola carillon competition in Mechelen, Belgium
in 1987
and at the Grand Prix Europeèn de Composition Chorale in Tours,
France in 2003.
In 2008 he was awarded the University of California at Berkeley’s medal
for
distinguished service to the carillon, and in 2011 he received the
Dutch
ANV-Visser Neerlandia prize for his carillon composition Ciacona. D'hollander has recorded
several CDs and
written many works for carillon. He is a board member of the Flemish
Carillon
Association, a guest instructor at the Dutch Carillon School in
Amersfoort, and
teaches at the Roosevelt Academy of Music in Middleburg, the
Netherlands since
2007. He gives master classes in carillon in Europe and the USA and is
often
asked to sit in the juries of carillon competitions and exams. He and
his wife
and colleague, the carillonneur Liesbeth Janssens, perform as the
Hemony Duo,
and give concerts of works for two carillonneurs.
Werke von Albéniz, D’hollander, Franco, Grieg und Loeillet