Guest artist recital: Eddy Mariën, carillon

Free admission. No weather cancellations.

This recital may be enjoyed from the south courtyard next to the Ritchie Center gym off Asbury Avenue. Attendees are invited to tour the Williams Carillon after the performance.

Free parking is available on High Street and hourly paid parking is in the Cable Center parking lot.

Eddy Mariën is city carillonneur of Mechelen, Leuven and Halle. He is also carillonneur of Meise where he helped to install a completely new carillon.

Born in 1962 in Duffel, Belgium, he received a degree in piano from the conservatory of Mechelen, Belgium in 1980 and a Masters of Music from the Lemmens Institute in Louvain in 1997. He graduated from the Royal Carillon School Jef Denyn in 1985 where he has been teaching the carillon since 1989. He is the city carillonneur of  Halle, Louvain, Mechelen, and Meise. He initiated the installation of the new carillon in Meise and worked as advisor to the project. He gives regular recitals and lectures in Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand and has recorded several CDs. He won the first prize at the international carillon competitions of Nijmegen in 1989 and Berlin in 1991 and serves regularly on the juries of carillon competitions and exams. He has given master classes at Yale University, USA, the National Palace of Mafra, Portugal, and the Scandinavian Carillon School in Løgum Kloster, Denmark. He specializes in the performance of music for carillon and various other instruments such as guitar and vibraphone and together with Thomas Lee has formed the carillon duo "Campana Nova" which plays four-hands music for carillon.