Jeffrey Bossin, born in 1950 in Santa Monica, California, learned to play the carillon at the University of California at Riverside from 1968 to 1971 and was awarded his Bachelor of Music there in 1972. He received a Masters in Musicology at the Technical University of Berlin in 1984. In the same year he proposed the building of the carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the founding of the city. He worked as the carillon consultant and played the dedication recital in 1987. Since then he is been in charge of the carillon and played the regular concerts. He has also given special concerts such as the one for the midnight ceremony of the reunification of Germany held in front of the Reichstag in 1990. He performs at international carillon festivals in Europe and the USA and his concerts are broadcast on TV and radio. He has commissioned 60 carillon pieces and organized several concerts of music for carillon and electronics with the Electronic Studio of the Technichal University of Berlin. Bossin is vicepresident of the international carillon organization Eurocarillon and was a member of the juries of the competitions for Russian bellringers in Yaroslavl, Russia. He is the author of the book Die Carillons von Berlin und Potsdam, holds lectures on the subject, and records CDs.

Jeffrey Bossin                                Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten

Concert on Sunday, May 27 at 5 p.m.

Charles Dairay, Deinze, Belgium: Works by Satie and Zwart
Charles Dairay and Jeffrey Bossin, Berlin, Deutschland: Works for two carillonneurs by Barnes, Vivaldi, and White

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Concert on Monday, May 28 at 5 p.m.

 Music for the Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten

Works by Clementi, Felciano, Glandien, and Nørgård, and

world premieres of music by Finnendahl and Skilbeck.

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  Lecture on Saturday, May 26 at 10 a.m.
Musical Instruments Museum Berlin, Curt-Sachs-Hall

The Carillons of Berlin and Potsdam

The history of the carillons the first two Prussian kings donated to the Berlin Parochial Church and the Potsdam Garrison Church and which were destroyed in the Second World War and the installation of a new concert carillon with 68 bells in a specially built tower in Berlin-Tiergarten for Berlin’s 750th anniversary in 1987. Carillon music for Frederick the Great, Count Zeppelin, Adolph Hitler, and Christo and Jeanne Claude’s Wrapped Reichstag.