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Ignace Michiels was born on 7 December, 1963 in Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium, is a Belgian organist and choral conductor. Discover Ignace Michiels's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

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Occupation Concert organist Choral conductor Academic teacher
Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 7 December, 1963
Birthday 7 December
Birthplace Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium
Nationality West

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1952

Michiels is responsible for the cathedral music in services and the Kathedraalconcerten, a series of concerts with a tradition dating back to 1952.

1963

Ignace Michiels (born 7 December 1963) is a Belgian organist, choral conductor and organ teacher.

He is internationally known as a concert organist.

Michiels studied the organ, the piano and the harpsichord at the music academy of Bruges.

1986

In 1986 he won a prize at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven.

He continued his studies with Robert Anderson at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, with Herman Verschraegen at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, and with Odile Pierre at the Conservatoire de Paris where he graduated with a Prix d'Excellence.

He also received the Higher Diploma of organ music at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent.

Ignace Michiels has been teaching organ at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent and the music academy of Bruges.

He has been principal organist of the St. Salvator's Cathedral.

1990

He conducted the oratorio choir Cantores from 1990 to 2005.

Michiels prepared the choir for concerts and recordings, such as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the BRTN Philharmonic Orchestra Brussels, conducted by Alexander Rahbari.

Michiels has served on the jury of international organ competitions and has taught masterclasses.

He has collaborated with Flemish classical radio stations.

1997

He appears with Organ Sonata op. 175 of Louis Maes on a Jubileum CD celebrating 150 years Bruges conservatory (1997).

Michiels participated in recordings of choral music, including:

1999

In 1999 he collaborated with Gabriel Dessauer, organist of St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden, in a project to jointly bring to a close a century of violence.

Both in Bruges and in Wiesbaden a concert was performed by the choirs Cantores and Chor von St. Bonifatius, Michiels playing the organ and Dessauer conducting.

The concert in Bruges on 23 October 1999 was named Eeuw van zinloos Geweld (Century of meaningless violence) and expressed it in Maurice Duruflé's Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d'Alain, Jules Van Nuffel's In convertendo Dominus, Jehan Alain's Litanies, Rudolf Mauersberger's Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst, Gerald Hendrie's Exsultate from the sonata In praise of reconciliation, and Duruflé's Requiem.

The concert in Wiesbaden was called Versöhnungskonzert zum Ende des Jahrhunderts (Concert of reconciliation at the end of the century).

2001

The collaboration has continued since 2001 in annual choral projects with organ, played by Michiels.

German and Flemish singers have formed the Reger-Chor-International singing concerts in Germany and in Belgium.

In their first concert in Bruges on 30 June 2001 they performed Théodore Dubois' Fiat Lux, William Lloyd Webber's Missa Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae, Allegro giocoso of Edward Bairstow, Duruflè's Toccata, Van Nuffel's Psalm 92 Dominus regnavit, and Max Reger's Hebbel-Requiem in the organ version of Max Beckschäfer.

The slightly different concert in Wiesbaden was recorded.

2002

On 19 August 2002, Michiels played an organ concert at the Rheingau Musik Festival in the church of St. Markus of Erbach.

2006

On 2 December 2006 he conducted Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the Reger-Chor-International in a concert held in the Concertgebouw of Bruges.

2008

On 1 August 2008, he played Messiaen's Messe de la Pentecôte on the Flentrop organ in the Grote kerk) in Breda. He played works of Brahms with the Reger-Chor-International and organ works of Otto Olsson, Julius Reubke, Joseph Jongen and Camil Van Hulse. On 27 October he played works of Schumann, Olsson, Flor Peeters, Gaston Litaize, and Naji Hakim at the International Organist Festival in Turin.

2010

On 4 July 2010, he played with the harpist Andrea Voets in concert at the Festival de la Ribagorza in the Basílica de la Peña de Graus in Graus.

As part of the Boni-Musikwochen 2010 in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden, celebrating 25 Jahre Reger-Chor, he performed a recital, including Reger's Toccata from op. 59 and Scherzo from op. 65, and Mendelssohn's Variations sérieuses.

In a concert with the choir he performed the last movement of Bach's cantata BWV 134a, Van Nuffel's In convertendo Dominus and Reger's Requiem.

He played Jongen's Prelude et fugue op. 121, Charles Tournemire's Victimae paschali, and Marcel Dupré's Prelude et fugue op. 7/3.

2012

On 3 October 2012, he was the organist in the premiere of Colin Mawby's Missa solemnis Bonifatius-Messe, composed to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the choir Chor von St. Bonifatius in Wiesbaden, conducted by Dessauer.

Several of the Kathedraalconcerten have been recorded, works for organ, including three of eight sonatas of Alexandre Guilmant, and works for organ with pan flute and trumpet.