Sunday's concert in the International Carillon Concert Series on the Allendale Campus features Dutchman Marcel Siebers.
Siebers holds master's degrees in piano from the Arnhem Conservatory, and practical and performing artist diplomas from the Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort, where he studied with Arie Abbenes. He has played many carillon recitals in the United States and in Europe. He serves as a municipal carillonneur in Venlo at St. Martin Church and in Cuijk at City Tower. He will be the carillonneur of the Millennium Carillon of the Aldegundis Church in Emmerich, Germany, this fall.
Siebers is also an active composer for carillon and other musical media. Several of his compositions and arrangements for two-octave carillon are published in the Cuijks Beiaardboek. His Fantasy on an Old French Chanson (Tant que Vivray) was awarded second prize in a 1994 French Guild of Carillonneurs composition competition and was published by the same organization; his Prelude con Fughetta was awarded second prize in the Johan Franco Composition Competition in 1996. Siebers composes in the New Dutch romantic style, reflecting the influences of Flemish romantic carillon music and incorporating a broad harmonic vocabulary.
This Sunday, Siebers will present his latest compositions, Hommage and Jubilate Deo Impressions.
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Recital Program
Sunday, July 9
8 p.m., Cook
Carillon
Marcel Siebers
Carillonneur of Venlo and Cuijk, The
Netherlands,
and Emmerich, Germany
Three Preludes J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier
- BWV 868 in B (transposed to F)
- BWV 867 in B flat (transposed to D)
- BWV 850 in D (transposed to G)
Two Compositions Marcel Siebers
- Hommage (1999) - in memoriam, Wil van Kranenberg
- Jubilate Deo Impressions (2000) - dedicated to W. van Rens
Sacred Music
- Benedictus from Organ Mass, Hob. XII/7 Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
- Ave Maria, Opus 2, no. 2 Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
It's Disney Time!
- Cruella de Ville (101 Dalmatians) Mel Leven
- Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat (The Aristocats) Al Rinker
- It's a Small World Traditional
Introduction and Martini Variations Albert de Klerk (1917-1998)
Prelude from Suite Bergamasque Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
arr.
Jeffrey Bossin/Marcel Siebers
Sonate 2 Kurfursten (WoO 47) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
- Larghetto maestoso, allegro assai
- Andante
- Finale: presto
Arrangements by Marcel Siebers unless otherwise indicated.
