Stadsorgelconcert in de Grote of St. Bavokerk

Tommy van Doorn is active as a performer on organ, carillon and harmonium and as a musicologist. He is titular organist of Saint-Peter's Basilica in Boxtel (where he plays the monumental Smits-organ from 1842) and carillonist of Boxtel, Geldrop, Schijndel, Son, Valkenswaard and Waalre. He teaches at the Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort (part of the Utrecht Conservatory) and works as organ teacher in Helmond. 

At the Fontys Conservatory in Tilburg, he studied organ, piano and harmonium. He graduated cum laude in 2014. He took further lessons and masterclasses with Ben van Oosten, Kees van Houten, Joris Verdin, Wolfgang Baumgratz and Luca Scandali. In 2020, he obtained his master’s degrees in Applied Musicology at Utrecht University and in carillon at the Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort. 

He played recitals in The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Poland and Great Britain. He was prize winner at the international carillon contest in Zwolle and Kampen (The Netherlands) in 2018. In 2021 his carillon playing was featured a yearlong weekly on Dutch national radio. 

He is currently working on a project on organ music in connection with the First World War (for more information, click here). 

From May to October, concerts are given on Tuesday evenings and in July and August also on Thursday afternoons in the Grote or St. Bavo Church by renowned organists from home and abroad.