Mathieu Kessels and the democratisation of music performance

A recent lecture was given by Hans van den Muijsenberg in which he broadly explained the importance of the brothers Jos and Mathieu Kessels, who moved from Heerlen to Tilburg in the 1980s and gave a huge boost to musical life in Brabant.

JACE van de Ven wrote this column about it:

Mathieu Kessels and the democratisation of music performance

 

Publication date: Sunday 14 December 2025

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