Aart Bergwerff has been appointed as organist of the Grote Kerk in Breda, The Netherlands. This news has been released last Monday, March 19. He will become the titulaire organist of the 1969 4-manual Flentrop/Van den Heuvel organ in this very church. Aart Bergwerff will be playing all the services of the Protestant parish in Breda and will also cooperate with the foundations and associations of the Grote Kerk Breda, Organ Concerts Breda and Friends of the Organ. Apart from this position Aart Bergwerf will remain the organist of the 1762 Bätz organ of the Lutheran church in The Hague. (Photo: Ron van Galen, RG/visuele communicatie)

 Shortly a first recording of the new Skrabl organ for De Fontein Nijkerk will be released. This organ has been built by the Slovenian organ builder Anton Škrabl  in Rogaska Slatina and has been dedicated in November 2011. It is the first Škrabl organ built in cooperation with the Dutch organbuilder Jan Bambacht of Consultare Organbuilding, and therewith the first organ in Dutch style. Consultant of this project was Aart Bergwerff, organist and organ advisor. He made also the first CD recording on this 22 stops instrument, with compositions of F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy, J.S. Bach, A. Raison, G.F. Händel, Ch. M. Widor, F. Asma en J. Rheinberger. The CD will be released on March 30, 2012. Already now a first track of the new CD can be downloaded from this site: Widor's Intermezzo&nbs...