Jan Verschuren

Jan Verschuren (born 1962 in Asten, the Netherlands) is a Dutch organist. Jan Verschuren studied to become an engineer at the University of Technology in Eindhoven and at the same time he practiced the organ with Hub. Houët in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He continued practicing the organ under the instruction of Reitze Smits at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven, Belgium and completed it with a Premier Prix. Further more Verschuren continued under the instruction of Reitze Smits for the degree of Master of Music at the Conservatoire of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Additionally he took advanced interpretation courses with Jan-Willem Jansen at the Conservatoire of Toulouse and with Michel Bouvard at the Conservatoire of Paris.

Jan Verschuren was appointed organist in Mill and Boxmeer, the Netherlands. In 1998 he has been appointed as university organist of the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. In 2001 Jan Verschuren succeeded Folkert Grondsma as titular-organist of the Hartebrug Church in Leiden. Moreover in 2007 Jan Verschuren has been appointed as university-organist of the University of Technology Eindhoven in Eindhoven.

Organ-recitals took him to many organs in the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary, Italy, the Czech Republic and Poland. Moreover, Jan Verschuren has made CD-recordings and performed on the Dutch radio.

At the end of 2002 as university-organist he was asked to perform the world première of "Le loup en pierre" by Clarenz Barlow for two organs in the Peter-church in Leiden. In April 2002 Jan Verschuren was awarded the Medaille d’Argent of the Société Académique des Arts-Sciences-Lettres de Paris in appreciation of propagating French organ music.

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References

Dutch papers 1985-2009.

University of Leiden.

Hartebrug-church Leiden.

Booklet (in Dutch) Orgelday in Leiden June 2008.

Booklet (in Dutch) Smits-organday in the county of Ravenstein and the county of Cuijk 2000.

Booklet Euregio-concerts in provence of Limburg and Germany 2006, 2007, 2008.

Aachener Newspaper August 2008

Entry to the Dutch Wikipedia Jan Verschuren.

Dies Natalis 2009 University of Leiden.