Anna Maria Reverté, born in 1966 in Barcelona, Spain, graduated from the Barcelona Music Conservatory where she was awarded the titles of professor of piano in 1988 and of solfeggio in 1990. She studied carillon with her colleague Maria Dolors Coll in Barcelona and attended the master classes at the Netherlands Carillon School in 1988 and 1990 and the Scandinavian Carillon School in Løgum Kloster, Denmark in 1989. Since 1988 Ms. Reverté has been the carillonneur of the Palace of the Generalitat of Catalonia, the seat of the Catalan government. She gives recitals in many European countries and has performed at the major American carillon festivals in Springfield, Illinois, Lake Wales, Florida, and Berkeley, California. She won prizes at carillon competitions in 1991 in Berlin, Germany and in 1994 in Miribel, France and in the same year was awarded first prize in carillon arranging at the World Carillon Congress in Chambéry, France. She has also been a member of the juries of several carillon competitions and carillon exams. Anna Maria Reverté has composed several pieces for carillon, including works for different ensembles. She has also arranged more than four hundred works for carillon, including many from her native Catalonia.

Koen Van Assche, born in 1967 in Antwerp, Belgium, studied music and took flute lessons in Antwerp, began learning to play the carillon at the Royal Carillon School Jef denyn in Mechelen in 1981, and graduated from that institution in 1986. He is city carillonneur of Herentals, Louvain, and Turnhout, and has won prizes at several international carillon competitions.  Koen Van Assche gives regular recitals in Europe and has performed many times in the USA, including at the three carillon festivals in Springfield, Illinois, Lake Wales, Florida, and Berkeley, California. He is also known for his performances of music combining carillon with other instruments. He has recorded several CD's for carillon including one of "The Four Seasons" of Antonio Vivaldi and one of music by Frédéric Chopin. He was a guest professor at the master class of the Scandinavian Carillon School in 2000 and the Roosevelt Academy of Music in the Netherlands and has served on the juries of many carillon competitions and examinations. Mr. Van Assche is also a board member of the Flemish Carillon Guild and a member of the Executive Committee of the World Carillon Federation. He is the author of a playing method for the carillon and teaches carillon at the academies of music in Haaltert (Ninove), Borgerhout and Lier.

Anna Maria Reverté and Koen van Assche are not only married to each other but have also been performing four-hands carillon concerts since 2003.

Anna Maria Reverté & Koen Van Assche The carillon of Barcelona, The Saint Peters Church, Louvain,

                        Spain                                Belgium
            

Concert on Saturday, May 26 at 3 p.m.
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 6

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Koen Van Assche
Lecture on Sunday, May 27 at 12 p.m. (in English)
Musical Instruments Museum Berlin, Curt-Sachs-Hall

The Art of Playing the Carillon: a Short History of the Various Playing Techniques

The first carillon keyboards were invented 500 years ago. Since then transmissions have been steadily improved and different types of keyboards developed until a world standard was adopted in 2006. How did carillonneurs adapt to this process and what influence did it have on their way of playing?