Old carillon practice keyboard being removed from the Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn" for replacement on October 25, 2005

The Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn" (Dutch: Koninklijke Beiaardschool "Jef Denyn") in Mechelen, Belgium, is the first and largest carillon school in the world. The Belgian government defines it as an "International Higher Institute for the Carillon Arts under the High Protection of Her Majesty Queen Fabiola." The school has trained many of the foremost carillonneurs of the twentieth century and houses a rich archive and library. October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 67 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mechelen: Grote Markt square, with St. ... The Netherlands Carillon in Arlington, Virginia, USA. A carillon is a musical instrument composed of at least 23 cup-shaped bells played from a baton keyboard using fists and feet (such an instrument with fewer than this number of bells is known as a chime). ... The executive branch of the Belgian federal government consists of ministers and secretaries of state (junior ministers or smaller departments) drawn from the political parties which form the government coalition. ... Queen Fabiola of The Belgians, Doña Fabiola Fernanda María de las Victorias Antonia Adelaida de Mora y Aragón (born June 11, 1928) was the Spanish-born Queen consort of King Baudouin I of the Belgians, until the Monarchs death in 1993. ...

History

The Royal Carillon School was founded in 1922 by renowned city carillonneur of Mechelen Jef Denyn, in whose honor it was later named, with the support of Americans Herbert Hoover, John D. Rockefeller, and William Gorham Rice. The first institution of its kind, the school soon gained international acclaim and has trained carillonneurs from numerous countries, including China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ghana, Japan, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Jef Denyn founded the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen, Belgium. ... Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964), the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933), was a successful mining engineer, humanitarian, and administrator. ... John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. ...

The institution has developed under the successive directorship of Jef Denyn (1862-1941), Staf Nees (1901-1965), Piet Van den Broek, and Jo Haazen (1944-), its present director. The school has made a signifcant impact on carillon performance worldwide and is the originating place of the Flemish romantic style of carillon composition and performance.

Historic carillon keyboards in the Museum of the Royal Carillon School

The Royal Carillon School is housed in the historic building 't Schipke, adjoining the Court of Busleyden, where the school's carillon and museum are found. Its facilities include four practice keyboards, a carillon on which extensive practice time is available, pianos, a library of sheet music, and an important historical archive. The museum and library holdings include an international collection of bells, historic carillon keyboards, rare books, manuscripts, and art objects. The Netherlands Carillon in Arlington, Virginia, USA. A carillon is a musical instrument composed of at least 23 cup-shaped bells played from a baton keyboard using fists and feet (such an instrument with fewer than this number of bells is known as a chime). ...

In 1984, the Royal Carillon School established a branch at the Catholic University of Leuven, and Her Majesty Queen Fabiola conferred her high protection upon the school. Later that year, the school introduced the carillon tradition to Japan. In 1986, the school was elected to membership in the Russian Cultural Committee, and the first Russian students arrived in 1992. Another branch opened in Halle in 1991, and additional branches now exist in Roeselare, Ronse, and Peer. The Catholic University of Leuven, founded in 1425, is now the names of two Belgian universities, after the original university split in 1968: the Dutch-speaking Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, and the French-speaking Universit catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium This is a disambiguation page — a... Halle is a Flemish city and municipality in the province of Flemish-Brabant (Belgium). ... Roeselare (Roulers in French and English) is a municipality in the province of West Flanders, in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. ... Ronse (French: Renaix) is a municipality located in the province of East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium. ... Peer is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg. ...

The Queen Fabiola International Carillon Competition was established by the school in 1987. Every five years, carillonneurs from the world over converge in Mechelen to compete in the most prestigious carillon competition in history. The school also organizes carillon composition contests and publishes works for carillon, campanological literature, and carillon methods.

Prominent visitors to the school include cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, the Vienna Boys' Choir, former Hungarian president Árpád Göncz, Russia's first lady Lyudmila Putina, Defense Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Ivanov, Michael I and Queen Anne of Romania, American Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium Tom C. Korologos, and Her Majesty Queen Fabiola of Belgium. Mstislav Rostropovich Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich (Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич) (born March 27, 1927), affectionately known as Slava, is Russian and a naturalized American cellist and conductor, considered to be one of the greatest cellists ever. ... The Vienna Boys Choir The Vienna Boys Choir (German: Wiener Sängerknaben) is a choir of boy sopranos and altos based in Vienna, Austria. ... Árpád Göncz Árpád Göncz (left) with fellow artist Károly Makk (right) Árpád Göncz (born February 10, 1922 in Budapest) is a Hungarian liberal politician and former President of The Republic (May 2, 1990–August 4, 2000). ... Bella Kocharian, Laura Bush, Lyudmila Putina and Zorka Purvanova – first ladies of Armenia, the United States, Russia and Bulgaria respectively in 2003. ... Sergei Borisovich Ivanov (Сергей Борисович Иванов in Russian) (born January 31, 1953, Leningrad) is the Defense Minister of the Russian Federation. ... King Michael I of the Romanians (born October 25, 1921), reigned as King of the Romanians (in Romanian Majestatea Sa Mihai I Regele Românilor) from July 20, 1927 to June 8, 1930, and again from September 6, 1940 until deposed on December 30, 1947: he has since lived in... Tom C Korologos Thomas Christopher Korologos, (born April 16, 1933) in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a well-connected Republican lobbyist in Washington. ... Queen Fabiola of The Belgians, Doña Fabiola Fernanda María de las Victorias Antonia Adelaida de Mora y Aragón (born June 11, 1928) was the Spanish-born Queen consort of King Baudouin I of the Belgians, until the Monarchs death in 1993. ...

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Academics

The Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn" is a state-subsidized eduational institute offering a variety of programs of study. The curriculum normally requires six years for completion, but carillonneurs with prior training may graduate as quickly as within one year. Carillon performance, carillon history and campanology, theory, harmony, composition, arranging, part-singing, and keyboard instruction comprise the curriculum. Student activities such as carillon trips in Belgium and the Netherlands and to international carillon congresses are organized by the student association Campana, which publishes a newsletter, 't Schipke [1].

The school maintains connections with higher institutes of art in Belgium, the Carillon Instituut Nederland [2]and Bourdon Hogeschool voor Muziek [3] in the Netherlands, and Missouri State University in the United States. The school also maintains an exchange program with the Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs and relations with the State Conservatory of Saratov in Russia. Missouri State University (formerly Southwest Missouri State University) located in Springfield, Missouri is the states second largest university, second only to the University of Missouri–Columbia in student enrollment. ... Every fall semester, a number of Yale undergraduates who wish to learn how to play the Harkness Tower carillon can audition for a place in the Guild of Carilloneurs. ... Saratov flag Saratov (Russian: ) is a major city in southern European Russia. ...

Tuition fees amount to less than 200 € per year.

Degrees and diplomas

Diplomas are offered at two levels of secondary education, and advanced students may continue their studies to earn a Final Diploma (Dutch: einddiploma) or the two-year Diploma of Excellence, an honor awarded to only a few students in the school's history with exceptional talent in composition. In association with the Carillon Instituut Nederland and Bourdon Hogeschool voor Muziek in the Netherlands, the school began offering bachelor's degrees in 2006. A joint master's degree in carillon with tracks in performance and pedagogy is offered jointly with Missouri State University. Missouri State University (formerly Southwest Missouri State University) located in Springfield, Missouri is the states second largest university, second only to the University of Missouri–Columbia in student enrollment. ...

Notable alumni

• Arie Abbenes - Carillonneur of Utrecht, Asten, Eindhoven, and Tilburg
• Emilien Allard - Composer and former carillonneur of Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montreal
• Arthur Bigelow - Influential American campanologist and former university carillonneur of the Catholic University of Leuven and Princeton University
• Gideon Bodden - Noted campanologist and city carillonneur of Amersterdam, Oudewater, and Hilvarenbeek, and winner of the 1993 Queen Fabiola International Carillon Competition
• Koen Cosaert - Faculty member of the Royal Carillon School and only full-time campanology teacher in the world
• Geert D'hollander - Noted composer and city carillonneur of Antwerp, Ghent, Lier, Sint-Niklaas, and Middelburg, former University Carillonist of the University of California, Berkeley, and winner of the first Queen Fabiola International Carillon Competition in 1987
• Ellen Dickinson - carillonneur with the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America and Yale University
• Jo Haazen - Current director of the Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn" and former city carillonneur of Antwerp
• Margo Halsted - Former University Carillonist and Associate Professor of Campanology of the University of Michigan
• Léon Henry - Former carillonneur of Nivelles
• Timothy Hurd - Carillonner of Canberra, Australia and Wellington, New Zealand
• John R. Knox - Carillon composer and carillonneur of London
• Kamiel Lefévere - Former carillonneur of the Riverside Church in New York, which boasts the heaviest carillon in the world
• André Lehr - Major campanologist of the twentieth century and former director of the Royal Eijsbouts bell foundry
• Jos Lerinckx - Major Flemish carillon composer and former carillonneur of Halle
• Eddy Mariën - Faculty member of the Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn" and joint city carillonneur of Mechelen
• Staf Nees - Major Flemish carillon composer, former city carillonneur of Mechelen, former teacher at the Royal Carillon School
• Luc Rombouts - University carillonneur of the Catholic University of Leuven
• Leen 't Hart - Former carillonneur of Delft, founder of the Netherlands Carillon School, and prolific arranger and composer for carillon
• Sally Slade Warner - Carillonneur of the Cohasset Carillon, arranger of carillon music, organist

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See also

A number of other educational institutions in Europe and the United States now offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in carillon performance:

• Carillon Instituut Nederland, Dordrecht, the Netherlands [4]
• University of Denver, United States
• Ecole Française de Carillon, Douai, France [5]
• Lemmens Institute, Leuven, Belgium [6]
• Netherlands Carillon School, Amersfoort, the Netherlands
• Roosevelt Academy and Roosevelt Graduate School of Music (forthcoming), Middelburg, the Netherlands
• Scandinavian Carillon School, Løgumkloster, Denmark [7]
• University of Kansas, United States

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External links

• Official site of the Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn"
• Campana, the student association of the Royal Carillon School and publisher of the school newsletter, 't Schipke
• Flemish Carillon Guild