Laurens de Man and Ben Kazez, duo

Laurens de Man (organ/piano) and Ben Kazez (baritone) form a dynamic duo whose repertoire spans from masterworks of Schütz, Bach, and Schubert to drinking songs of CPE Bach and the satire of Tom Lehrer. The two musicians met while performing with the Netherlands Bach Society, and have since appeared together in France (Toulouse les Orgues), Belgium, and the Netherlands, often featuring historical organs from the Baroque and Romantic periods.

Upcoming projects include a recording of Brahms’s Vier ernste Gesänge for organ and voice, as well as chamber music performances with their own transcriptions.

Laurens de Man is a versatile and enterprising keyboardist. In 2024, he became the first organist ever to receive the Dutch Music Prize, the highest distinction for classical musicians in the Netherlands. He studied at Conservatorium van Amsterdam and Universität der Künste in Berlin, where he earned the prestigious Konzertexamen diploma. He won first prize in the Silbermann Competition (Freiberg), ECHO “Young Organist of the Year” (2020), and the Sweelinck-Muller Prize (2018). He is a founding pianist of the Chimaera Trio, which has released three discs, and he is professor of organ at Conservatorium van Amsterdam.

Ben Kazez is a baritone working with many of Europe’s leading early music groups. He earned his master’s from London’s Guildhall School in 2018 and was named a Britten Pears Young Artist. In the 2025/26 season, he sings Bach’s Christmas Oratorio as a soloist with La Cetra Barockorchester and Andrea Marcon, and appears as a soloist with the Academy of Ancient Music under Laurence Cummings in a programme of cantatas by Graupner, Telemann, and Bach. He also joins Thomas Dunford’s Ensemble Jupiter for Handel’s Theodora, with performances at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Bozar Brussels, and the Royal Chapel of Versailles.