Tower Music 2026 - Lorenz Meulebroek (BE) & Brecht Crabeels (BE)

Lorenz Meulebroek (°1991) started music theory and organ lessons at the Stedelijke Academie for music, word, and dance in Dendermonde at the age of nine. In 2007, he started carillon training at the Koninklijke Beiaardschool “Jef Denyn” in Mechelen, where he obtained his Carillonneur diploma in May 2018. Since 2019, he has been a board member of the Vlaamse Beiaardvereniging, the umbrella organization for the promotion of the carillon art in Flanders. Since September 2021, Lorenz has been appointed as a teacher of carillon, keyboard class, and group music-making at the Stedelijke Academie for Music, Word, and Dance in Dendermonde. Brecht Crabeels (°1993) studied church music at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven and has been the titular organist-sexton of the deanery Sint-Amandus and Sint-Blasius church in Waregem since 2015. Program: 1 Prelude in honor of Peter Benoit Eugeen Uten (1919-2001) 2 Music Box Dancer Frank Mills (°1942) 3 Vedro con mio diletto Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) 4 Oblivion Astor Piazolla (1921-1992) 5 Preludium Coucou* Matthias van den Gheyn (1721-1785) 6 In the fields Peter Benoit (1834-1901) 7 Rondo I Rogier Van Otterloo (1941-1988) 8 Canzonetta for carillon** Jef Rottiers (1904-1985) 9 Fantasy III Peter Benoit (1834-1901) 10 Will Tura medley 11 Second Waltz Dmitri Sjostakovitsj (1906-1975) * Carillon solo Lorenz Meulebroek ** Beiaardsolo Brecht Crabeels All arrangements and medleys for carillon and piano: Brecht Crabeels (except ‘In the fields’ arr. Bart Snauwaert)