Improvisation in Western Classical Music", Journal of the Indian Musicological Society. 2007 "The Art of Doing Nothing", Piano Bulletin European Piano Teachers Association. 2007 "Nieuwe invalshoeken voor compositie en improvisatie", Het Orgel. 2008 "The Art of Doing Nothing", Adem. 2008 "Van Messiaen tot...Improvisaties en composities op vogelgezangen van Messiaen". Lectures 1992 "Orgelbau und Musiktechnologie", Colloquium "Die Orgel in Ostdeutschland und in Polen", Frankfurt/Oder 2006 "New Ways of Improvisation in Western Classical Music", seminar on Improvisation in Music, ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Mumbai 2007 "Composition as a Framework for Improvisation", seminar on Composing, Composition & Composers in Music, ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Mumbai 2014 "Re-vitalizing a performance practise of the eighteenth and nineteenth century through contemporary improvisation", Royal Music Association, University of Birmingham 2016 "Comment un organiste, non musicien de jazz, peut s'affilier au jazz contemporain par le biais de Messiaen et du jeu avec un joueur de tabla", Université Laval, Québec Awards and honors 1998 "Silver medal of honor" Nederlandse Sint-Gregoriusvereniging 2000 "Diplôme de Médaille d’argent de la Société Académique d’Éducation et d’Encouragement “Arts-Sciences-Lettres” (Prix Thorlet)" 2015 "Schnittger Dream Prize" for innovation in organ art References External links Willem Tanke's Official Website Retrieved 2019-1-30. Dutch organists Male organists People from Hengelo 1959 births Living people 21st-century organists 21st-century male musicians