Boudewijn Zwart
 

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.

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Boudewijn Zwart at the keyboard of

the Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten 2013
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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.