MATTHIAS HAVINGA
MATTHIAS
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Welcome to the website of concert organist, pianist and teacher Matthias Havinga.
Matthias enjoys a busy international concert career. He recorded many CD's, made countless other recordings and runs a successful Youtube-channel. Havinga is organist of the wonderful organs at the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam.
He is also Professor of Organ at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
Reviews on Matthias' organ playing:
"...playful, sophisticated timing and dangerously quick pedal playing. Havinga masters his profession."
"...pure, true musicianship and an inner feeling for the ‘right’ musical interpretation are expressed in an inimitable way by Matthias Havinga."
At the start of the new concert season, Matthias played a concert at the Schnitger-organ of Neuenfelde (Germany) and a closed concert for Friends of the Netherlands Bach Society.
November brings a concert at the Symfonic Organ Festival Aarhus (Denmark), where Matthias will play a solo program around Advent and Christmas featuring music by Bach, Messiaen, Distler and Sweelinck. When Christmas really comes around the Dutch public broadcasting company NPO broadcasts its Christmas Concert, this year at the Jacobikerk Utrecht, with the Netherlands Radio Choir conducted by Benjamin Goodson.
2025 starts for Matthias with a prestigious solo concert for French radio, broadcast at the Maison de Radio et de la Musique in Paris. The program researches the relationship between Mendelssohn's organ works and its Bach examples. It also includes a world premier, composer Kate Moore is writing a new organ piece for this concert.