LEEN DE BROEKERT studied Piano and Organ at the Royal Academy of Music in The Hague with pianist Gerard Hengeveld and the organists Adriaan Engels and Wim van Beek. He graduated in both subjects. With Barend Schuurman he studied Church music. He also qualified as a harpsichord-player and fortepianist in Antwerp with Jos van Immerseel. In Bruges 1979 he was one of the laureates of the International Contest for Organ. As a fortepianist, organ- and harpsichord-player  he is frequently asked for concerts in Germany as well as in Holland and Belgium.

Leen de Broekert made gramophone recordings (with fluteplayer Ferenc Hutÿra), radio recordings  and – also on label Zefir – an organ-CD with works by Bach, Couperin and others and two CDs  on fortepiano with works by Haydn and Schubert. CDs were published of him playing three historical organs in the province of Zeeland. (The 20-part collection ‘Dutch Organs 1511/1896’, Utrecht 2005).

Leen de Broekert is organist of the Abbey-church in Middelburg and teaches piano and organ at the Zeeland School of Music. He has a weekly programme on music on Radio Zeeland since 2001.