The leading Dutch musician Aart De Hort, organist at Rotterdam’s St Laurentius and St Elisabeth cathedrals since 2003, has died after a severe illness.
Aside from his church work as an organist and choir conductor, he was pianist for the dance faculty at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.
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