Carillon Concert: Guest carillonneur Roy Kroezen
| Date/Time: | Sunday, 17 Oct 2021 at 4:00 pm |
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| Location: | Campanile, central campus |
| Cost: | Free |
| URL: | www.music.iastate.edu/carillon/2021-summ...on-concert |
| Contact: | Tin-Shi Tam |
| Phone: | 515-294-2911 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Categories: | Arts, performances |
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Roy Kroezen was born in Enschede, The Netherlands, in 1967 and was appointed carillonneur of the Centralia Carillon in 2016. He is organist at St. Mary Catholic Church and Trinity Lutheran Church in Centralia and the Fox Theater in St. Louis. He studied organ at the ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem, with Cor van Wageningen and Theo Jellema. He studied carillon at the Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort with Bernard Winsemius and Henk Verhoef, and also at the Royal Carillon School Jef Denijn in Belgium with Geert D'hollander and the Lemmens Institute in Leuven Belgium with Carl van Eyndhoven. He holds a master degree in carillon, and organ and choir conducting degrees. In the Netherlands he served as a municipal carillonneur in Zwolle, Hoogeveen, Arnhem and Huissen. He was 22 years organist in Hilversum at the Apostolic Society and Catholic churches in Hoogland, Amersfoort and Beesd and choir conductor. He was chairman of the Music Committee of the NKV, (Netherlands Carillon Association). He is carillon- and organ teacher and arranger of music for carillon. He has played numerous organ and carillon recitals in the U.S., Europe, and the island of Curacao. In 2002 he played nine weeks six concerts a day on the island of Kyushu in Japan in Huis ten Bosch, a Dutch style family park. Kroezen has won prizes at several international carillon contests. Together with the Zwolse Beiaard Stichting, (Zwolle Carillon Foundation), he organized among others two contests for carillon duet and a carillon composition contest, held in Zwolle, the Netherlands.
Centralia Carillon
The Centralia Carillon currently ranks as one of the 10 largest in the world, consisting of 65 bells that were cast in Annecy, France, in 1982 and 1983, by the Paccard Fonderie de Cloches. The Bourdon bell, Great Tom (see pictures), pitched G, has a weight of 11,000 pounds and a diameter of 79.5 inches. The smallest bell, pitched C, weighs 20 pounds, with a diameter of 8 inches. The total bell weight is 61,312 pounds making it one of the heaviest instruments in the world. In 1992, a five and a half octave "North American Standard" practice keyboard was installed. This keyboard is now located at the Carillon Offices and is throughout available to the resident Carillonist and guest Carillonists. In 1997, the Verdin Company installed a "North American Standard" keyboard with the disposition G-A- chromatic to C5 covering five and a half octaves. In 2001, the installation of a newly designed transmission system was completed by Meeks & Watson.