Boudewijn
Zwart, born in 1962 in
Amersfoort, Netherlands, studied piano at the Sweelinck
Conservatory in Amsterdam and carillon at the Dutch Carillon
School in Amersfoort, where he was awarded his diploma in
1988. He won prizes at many international carillon
competitions, including the first prize at the"Queen
Fabiola" competition in Mechelen, Belgium in 1990 and second
prize at the Berlin competition in 1991. He is city
carillonneur of Amsterdam (Westertoren), Apeldoorn,
Bergambacht, Dordrecht, Ede, Garderen, Gouda, Ijsselstein,
Schoonhoven, Wageningen and Zeewolde, director of the
Carillon Institute of the Netherlands in Dordrecht, guest
instructor at the Royal Carillon School „Jef Denyn“ in
Mechelen, Belgium and president of the European carillon
organization "Eurocarillon". He appears in many radio, TV,
film productions, has made several CDs and gives regular
concerts at home and abroad. In 1990 he played on a
travelling carillon as part of the musical program of the
official midnight ceremony for the reunification of Gerrmany
in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin. Since 2003 he
has been performing on his own travelling carillon as well.
He is also an organist, pianist and composer.
Boudewijn Zwart at the keyboard of the Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten 2013 |
Westertoren, Amsterdam |
Guest
concert on Pentecost Monday, May 20, 2013 at 4 p.m.
Works by Bach/Marcello, Giazotto,
Handel, Monti, Mozart and Zwart.
Download program here
Click here to listen
to Boudewijn Zwart play an excerpt of
Mozart's A Little Night Music on
the Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten.