From Renaissance to Romantic: Maurits Bunt Organ Concert

We are excited to welcome Dutch organist, Maurits Bunt who will explore repertoire taking us from the Renaissance period all the way through to the Romantic period. Maurits studied organ privately with Sietze de Vries, Bas de Vroome, and Aart Bergwerff, improvisation with Hayo Boerema, and church music with Hanna Rijken and Arie Hoek at the Codarts Conservatory in Rotterdam. He completed both Master’s studies in organ with Ton Koopman (early music literature) and Hayo Boerema (improvisation), and carillon with Frans Haagen and Christiaan Winter.

The variety of music played will also be reflected in the organs used – Maurits will play our wonderful romantic 1877 Father Willis organ as well as our 2025 Klop Chamber Organ, which is closer in sound to the organs one might have heard during the Renaissance period. This concert will explore this variety in sounds and repertoire.

Father Willis Organ:
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 – 1847)
Ouverture from Oratorio ‘Paulus’ Op. 36, arrangement by W.T. Best
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
Passacaglia BWV 582
Klop Chamber Organ:
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562 – 1621)
Fantasia Cromatica SwWV 258
Father Willis Organ:
John Ireland (1914 – 1992)
Elegiac Romance
Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)
Tannhäuser Overture WWV 70, arrangement by E.H. Lemare