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Dr. Jacob Lekkerkerker studied art history and philosophy (University of Amsterdam). His musical studies included organ improvisation at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and composition at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he received his PhD on a portfolio of compositions for organ, electronics, and hyperorgan. As an improviser and composer, Jacob Lekkerkerker works with piano, synthesizer and organ. He has been affiliated with VU Amsterdam as a tutor and artistic researcher since January 2022, chair Organ Studies, Prof. Dr. Hans Fidom.
From 2007 to 2022 Jacob was organist at the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. From 2013 to 2022, as curator of music, he developed a new tradition of spatial music and sound art in the Oude Kerk, together with director Jacqueline Grandjean, in the context of exhibitions of international artists such as Marinus Boezem, Christian Boltanski, Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Cardiff and Miller, Adrián Villar Rojas. As founder of the music series Silence, Playing the Cathedral and Monuments, he developed new music and sound art for the cathedral space in close collaboration with Philip Glass, Nicolás Jaar, Leonard Eto, Herman Kolgen, Ana Guedes, Lucrecia Dalt, Claire M Singer, Ellen Arkbro, Maria W Horn, Thomas Ankersmit and Zeno van den Broek.
At the VU, his assingment is artistic research on art and music. and artistic lead of the yearly Organ in Situ week.
Mesmerizing ambient soundtrack by Jacob Lekkerkerker in MU Hybrid Art House. **** Volkskrant, 10 March 2022
Spectacular transformation of the sound of the Vater-Müller organ in the Oude Kerk. **** Trouw, December 2015