Pieter van Dijk

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Pieter van Dijk (born January 2, 1958 in Rheden ) is a Dutch organist and professor at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater .

Life

Pieter van Dijk studied at the Music Academy in Arnhem and deepened his organ playing with Gustav Leonhardt , Marie-Claire Alain and Jan Raas. Since 1989 he has held a professorship for organ at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and since 1995 a professorship for organ, improvisation and methodology at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater. He also holds visiting professorships at various European universities.

At the Laurenskerk in Alkmaar he is the organist of the famous organ by Van Hagerbeer (1645) / Franz Caspar Schnitger (1725) and the late Gothic organ by Jan van Covelens (Johann von Koblenz) (1511). Since 2004 he has also been the city organist of Alkmaar.

Van Dijk has made several CD recordings of organ music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods and has performed internationally as a concert in Europe and the USA. He won prizes at the international organ competitions in Deventer (1979) and Innsbruck (1986), and in 2013 he was awarded the German Record Critics' Prize. Together with Frank van Wijk he is the artistic director of the Organ Festival Holland .

Discography

  • Bach - Complete Organ Works 5: Neumeister Collection. Van Hagerbeer / Schnitger organ of the Laurenskerk in Alkmaar. 2 CD. 2019.
  • Bach - Complete Organ Works 4: Gottfried Silbermann. Organs in Freiberg Cathedral and in Ponitz. 2 CD. 2019.
  • Bach - Complete Organ Works 3: Leipzig chorales. Van Hagerbeer / Schnitger organ of the Laurenskerk in Alkmaar. 2 CD. 2018.
  • Bach - Complete Organ Works 2: Orgelbüchlein. Garrels organ of the Nicolaaskerk in Purmerend. 2 CD. 2018.
  • Bach - Complete Organ Works 1: Clavier Exercise III. Van Hagerbeer / Schnitger organ of the Laurenskerk in Alkmaar. 2 CD. 2017 (with Elma Dekker, soprano).
  • 50 Years Klop Early Keyboard Instruments, Pieter van Dijk plays his Klop Chamber organ. CD. 2016.
  • Antonio Soler: Six Concertos for Two Organs. CD, Brilliant Classics 2015 (with Maurizio Croci).
  • Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: De orgel - en klavecimbelwerken (= The Sweelinck monument. Deel 4). CD, Note 1 Music, Heidelberg 2015.
  • Ton sur Ton, Nieuwe muziek voor saxofoons en organ. CD, Orgelpark, 2014 (with Amstel Quartet, Leo van Doeselaar, Arno Bornkamp).
  • with Frank van Wijk, Leo van Doeselaar, Bernard Winsemius: Alkmaar, the Organs of the Laurenskerk. 2 DVD / CD, Fugue State Films, 2013.
  • Regina Renata. The organ in St. Katharinen Hamburg . CD, Karola Parry / Udo Potratz, Hamburg 2013 (Pieter van Dijk, Andreas Fischer, Wolfgang Zerer: work by Heinrich Scheidemann, Johann Adam Reincken, Johann Sebastian Bach, Heinrich F. Degenhardt, Hugo Distler).
  • "Playing in the organ". Baroque masterpieces for violin and organ on the organs of the Grote Sint Laurenskerk, Alkmaar. CD, Klassik-Center, Kassel 2007 (with Annegret Siedel: works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Adam Reincken, Dieterich Buxtehude, William Brade, Heinrich Scheidemann, Johann Schop).
  • Orgels van de Grote Sint Laurenskerk Alkmaar. CD 2004.01 (with Frank van Wijk).
  • Historical organs of Alkmaar. CD-Rom, Stichting Internationaal Schnitger Orgelconcours, Alkmaar 2000, ISBN 90-805973-1-7 .
  • Transcriptions: Concerti & Trios by Vivaldi, Johann Ernst, Telemann, Fasch, Couperin = transcriptions / Johann Sebastian Bach. CD, Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2000.
  • Van Covelens Organ Anno 1511. Grote Sint Laurenskerk Alkmaar-Holland: Works by Sweelinck, Frescobaldi a. a. CD. Contrapunctus Musicus 2000.
  • Het historical organ in Nederland 5th CD, Nationaal Instituut voor de Orgelkunst, Amsterdam 1999.
  • Heinrich Scheidemann: Organ Works. Vol. 1. CD, Naxos, Kirchheim near Munich 1998.
  • 100 Years organ music from the Netherlands. CD, NW Classics 1994 (with Jan Jansen, Albert de Klerk, Hans van Nieuwkoop, Jan Raas, Janjob Remmers,)
  • Pieter van Dijk a l'orgue Gheude, Pla de Santa Maria. CD, CEOS 1993.
  • Organs of the Netherlands 3, Recital by Pieter van Dijk at the organ of Oosthuizen. CD, Emergo classics 1993.
  • Organs of the Netherlands 6, Recital by Pieter van Dijk at the Baetz organ of the Round Lutheran Chuch in Amsterdam. CD, Emergo classics 1993.

Publications (selection)

  • Structure and sound design in Bach's Concerto transcriptions for organ. In: Organ building, organ playing and church music then and now. Lit-Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-50506-4 , pp. 103-138.
  • Postural aspects in organ playing. University of Music and Theater, Hamburg approx. 2013.
  • The Bach aesthetic in Karl Straubes edition from 1913. In: Bach interpretation and reception since the 18th century. Verlag der Musikalienhandlung Wagner, Schneverdingen 2003, pp. 137–150.
  • Verte Citissime, on Turning Pages in Matthias Weckmann's Organ Music. In: Urut Ajassa, Festschrift for Kari Jussila. Sibelius Academie, Helsinki 2003, ISBN 952-9658-77-X .
  • Aspects of Fingering and Hand Division in Lynar A1. In: Sweelinck Studies, Proceedings of the Sweelinck Symposium. STIMU, Utrecht 2002, ISBN 90-72786-09-2 .
  • The organist from the Witte organ in the Oude Lutherse Kerk. In: Pieter van Dijk, Harry Donga (eds.): Monumentale orgels van Luthers Amsterdam. Boekencentrum, Zoetermeer 1998, ISBN 90-239-0367-6 , p. 232 ff.
  • Aspecten van handverdeling en pedaalgebruik in de orgelwerke van Sweelinck volgens het manuscript Lynar A1. In: Het Orgel . 91, November 1995, pp. 365-374.
  • with Peter Westerbrink: Matthias Weckmann and the Use of the Organ in the Jacobikirche in Hamburg in the Seventeenth Century. Boeijenga, Sneek 1991.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg University of Music and Theater , accessed on March 2, 2019.
  2. ↑ Bach Cantata's website , accessed March 2, 2019.
  3. ^ Organ Festival Holland , accessed on January 1, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Dijk, Pieter van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch organist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheden (Netherlands)