Saturday 22 March 2025

La voix du bien-aimé


Saturday 2 August 2025

Organ concerto


Saturday 9 August 2025

Organ concerto


Saturday 16 August 2025

Organ concerto


Saturday 23 August 2025

Organ concerto


Saturday 30 August 2025

Organ concerto


Saturday 6 September 2025

Organ concerto


Saturday 13 September 2025

Organ concerto National Organ


Friday 10 October 2025

HOT plays Hendrix



Nicolaiconcert

The Nicolaïkerk (St. Nicholas church) is a medieval church in the southern part of the old city of Utrecht in the Netherlands. This building is the home of two very interesting instruments, the organ built by Marcussen and the carillon built by the famous Hemony brothers (17th century). These instruments are the backbone for a series of concerts, which are organised each year by the Stichting Culturele Evenementen Nicolaïkerk (Foundation for Cultural Events in the Nicolaïkerk ).

Duration of the concerts is approx. 45 minutes.

For programs of the past years you can browse our program archive.

The Nicolaikerk is located at the Nicolaaskerkhof in the inner city of Utrecht (See city map Utrecht).


 


Saturday 22 March 2025 20:15 hours - Nicolaïkerk


Saturday 22 March 2025
20:15 hours - Nicolaïkerk

La voix du bien-aimé


Chamber choir NEXT


Dorien Schouten-organ
Ko Zwanenburg-organ
Fokko Oldenhuis-conductor

Program

Maurice Duruflé-Quatre motets sur des thèmes grégoriens
Daniel-Lesur-Delen uit Cantique des cantiques
Thierry Escaich-In memoriam pour Duruflé
David Briggs-Delen uit Messe pour Notre-Dame, Ubi caritas et amor, Prière á Notre-Dame
Naji Hakim-Delen uit Messe Solenelle
Thierry Escaich-Évocation II
Olivier Messiaen-Uit 'Les Corps glorieux': VI Joie et clarté des corps glorieux en VII Le mystère de la sainte Trinité


Chamber choir NEXT
Chamber choir NEXT was founded in 2015 by former members of the Utrecht Student Cantorij. Together with conductor Fokko Oldenhuis, they started a chamber choir for singers who have outgrown the student choirs.
​The choir consists of approximately 32 young, ambitious singers between the ages of 25 and 45. Every week, they rehearse challenging programs with a variety of classical choir music. They like to work with professional musicians and contemporary composers, but also other artists, such as dancers and writers. In this way, they try to surprise the audience with every concert and let them listen to the music in a new way.

With La voix du bien-aimé (The voice of the beloved) you imagine yourself in the great French cathedrals in the time of influential 20th-century composers such as Maurice Duruflé and Daniel-Lesur. While the light streams through the stained glass windows and creates a play of colour and light on the walls, the choir and organ resound against the high vaults, ringing in a new musical era. Chamber choir NEXT, together with Dorien Schouten, brings a cross-section of the French music tradition from the previous century for choir and organ in this programme, with music from Duruflé and Daniel-Lesur to Escaich, Briggs and Hakim.
Special guest during the concert in the Nicolaïkerk is Ko Zwanenburg, organist of the Nicolaïkerk. He will play works by Thierry Escaich and Olivier Messiaen.

Tickets

Website: https://www.kamerkoornext.nl/

 

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Saturday 2 August 2025 13:00 hours - Nicolaïkerk


Saturday 2 August 2025
13:00 hours - Nicolaïkerk

Organ concerto


Concerto in the series of Summer Organ Concertos. Free admittance



 

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Saturday 9 August 2025 13:00 hours - Nicolaïkerk


Saturday 9 August 2025
13:00 hours - Nicolaïkerk

Organ concerto


Concerto in the series of Summer Organ Concertos. Free admittance



 

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Saturday 16 August 2025 13:00 hours - Nicolaïkerk


Saturday 16 August 2025
13:00 hours - Nicolaïkerk

Organ concerto


Concerto in the series of Summer Organ Concertos. Free admittance



 

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Saturday 23 August 2025 13:00 hours - Nicolaïkerk


Saturday 23 August 2025
13:00 hours - Nicolaïkerk

Organ concerto


Concerto in the series of Summer Organ Concertos. Free admittance



 

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Saturday 30 August 2025 13:00 hours - Nicolaïkerk


Saturday 30 August 2025
13:00 hours - Nicolaïkerk

Organ concerto


Concerto in the series of Summer Organ Concertos. Free admittance



 

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Saturday 6 September 2025 13:00 hours - Nicolaïkerk


Saturday 6 September 2025
13:00 hours - Nicolaïkerk

Organ concerto


Free admittance



 

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Saturday 13 September 2025 13:00 hours - Nicolaïkerk


Saturday 13 September 2025
13:00 hours - Nicolaïkerk

Organ concerto National Organ


Free admittance



 

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Friday 10 October 2025 20:15 hours - Nicolaïkerk


Friday 10 October 2025
20:15 hours - Nicolaïkerk

HOT plays Hendrix


HOT Het Orgel Trio



They must have thought it could always be more surprising... After projects in which HOT Het Orgel Trio received widespread praise with contemporary recompositions of jazz greats such as Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington, and then delved back 400 years in time with song arrangements by J.P. Sweelinck, it presents its own unique vision of the work of blues rock legend Jimi Hendrix in its new programme. There are certainly no screeching or amplified guitars to be heard in the acoustic programme, but there are the singing and howling strings of Catalan cellist Pau Sofa Masafrets. Grand organ sounds mingle with blues licks in Foxey Lady. But HOT also searches for tranquillity, such as in Hey Joe, which goes from very small to very large and back again very small. In Voodoo Child, minimal rhythmic patterns lead to a large, enchanting build-up in which the church fills with inspired breath. In the program HOT plays Hendrix the gentlemen of Het Orgel Trio are inspired by the genius of the American guitar giant, and in the process they also reinvent themselves.

Ticket sales will start soon.

Website: https://hetorgeltrio.nl/

 

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