Laurens de Man

Laurens de Man (’s-Hertogenbosch, 1993) is a versatile and enterprising keyboard player. He studied piano and organ (two main subjects) and harpsichord at the Amsterdam Conservatory with David Kuyken, Jacques van Oortmerssen, Pieter van Dijk, Matthias Havinga and Johan Hofmann. He took his Bachelor's cum laude for both main instruments in 2014, two years later his Master's cum laude in organ, and in 2017 his Master's (with distinction) in piano. He then pursued his organ studies with Leo van Doeselaar at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, where he obtained his Konzertexamen diploma with highest marks.

After winning first prize in the 2009 National Finals of the Prinses Christina Concours in The Hague, Laurens de Man joined other laureates in a tour of the USA, Canada and Costa Rica in 2012. In 2016 he won fourth prize (first and third prize not awarded) at the J.S. Bach International Piano Competition in Würzburg, and in the same year he won the Govert van Wijn Organ Competition in Holland. At the 2017 International Martini Organ Competition in Groningen he was awarded the first prize, the audience prize and the Jan Welmers prize. In 2018, he was awarded the Sweelinck-Muller Prize, a prestigious scholarship for promising young organists. In 2019, he won the 1st Prize in the Silbermann Competition in Freiberg, which made him “Young ECHO-Organist of the Year 2020”, which results in concerts throughout Europe.

In 2012 Laurens de Man was appointed principal organist of the Janskerk in Utrecht, where he plays on an instrument by Bätz-Witte (1861).