Events at
Sint-Pieter

At the organ will be Lieve Van de Rosteyne, a talented musician with an impressive career as a concert organiser and teacher. This versatile musician won several (inter)national competitions, is a member of the editorial board of the magazine ‘Orgelkunst’ and is artistic director of the Overmere organ committee. She performs works by Druckenmüller, Van Ingelgem, Krebs,...

With Iris Eysermans, we dive into the world of early organ music with composers from the 15th to 17th centuries, such as Cavazzoni, Gabrieli and Cornet. Iris not only teaches at the music academy of Turnhout and Hoogstraten, but also gives concerts at home and abroad. Iris has a passion for early music and therefore enjoys playing late medieval keyboard instruments.

The season will be concluded by Rien Donkersloot who will play both carillon and organ. Rien is active as organist and carillonneur in Amersfoort, Brielle, Goes, Ridderkerk, etc. On carillon, he will let listeners enjoy a sonata by Doles, among others, but variations on a minuet by Beethoven. On organ, he will perform works by Böhm, Bach and Mozart, but will also perform an improvisation of his own.

Playing on the carillon is Elisabeth Wang, a student at the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen. A native of Texas, she is not only a carillonneur but also an organist and physicist. She performs works by, among others, Matthias Vanden Gheyn, scion of the famous carillonist family. In summary, every Tuesday afternoon in July Carillon concert at 11.30 a.m. on the market in Turnhout, Organ concert at 12.15 p.m. in St Peter's Church also on the market in Turnhout, With again the possibility of organ lunch afterwards in restaurant Agora. 

Booking at https://www.agoraturnhout.be or 014 73 51 22

Last year, we already got to enjoy the beautiful carillon sounds brought by Claire Janezic, who was then laureate of the International Carillon Competition in Mechelen and won the first prize of the International Carillon Interpretation Competition in Brielle (NL). Claire is currently assistant carilloneur in Turnhout and will perform a varied programme of composers such as Fiocco, Bach, Geysen, Rottiers,... In summary every Tuesday afternoon in July Carillon concert at 11.30 a.m. on the market in Turnhout Organ concert at 12.15 p.m. in St Peter's Church also on the market in Turnhout With again the possibility of organ lunch afterwards in restaurant Agora. 

Booking at https://www.agoraturnhout.be or 014 73 51 22

With Sydney Nguyen, we bring in another student of the Royal Carillon School Mechelen and thus of Koen Van Assche. Sydney is from the US and together with colleague Claire Janezic forms the carillon duo ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’. She will play from ‘Das Wohltemperierte Klavier’ by J.S. Bach and also perform works by Pachelbel, Brahms and Geert D'hollander.

The season will be concluded by Rien Donkersloot who will play both carillon and organ. Rien is active as organist and carillonneur in Amersfoort, Brielle, Goes, Ridderkerk, etc. On carillon, he will let listeners enjoy a sonata by Doles, among others, but variations on a minuet by Beethoven. On organ, he will perform works by Böhm, Bach and Mozart, but will also perform an improvisation of his own. New carillon composition for 250 years of Turnhout carillon. 

On this Tuesday, Koen Van Assche will also perform the premiere of Geert D'hollander's new composition ‘A Festive Turn(h)out’. This Flemish/American composer has once again been commissioned to write a composition. This time to celebrate 250 years since the bells for St Peter's Church were cast. It will be a virtuosic yet lyrical work, entitled ‘A Festive Turn(h)out’. It will be premiered by city carillonneur Koen Van Assche, and will subsequently be distributed to all carillonneurs around the world. Once again, possibility of a subsequent organ lunch at Agora restaurant. Reservations at https://www.agoraturnhout.be or 014 73 51 22