Jakob Lkk is a composer and improviser on synthesizer, piano and organ. He studied composition at Goldsmiths in London, organ at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and improvisation with Loïc Mallié, successor of Olivier Messiaen at Église de la Sainte-Trinité in Paris. He was organist of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam from 2007 to 2022, where he founded groundbreaking music and sound art series for the cathedral space, with musicians and artists such as Herman Kolgen, Zeno van den Broek, Claire M Singer, Nicolas Jaar, Philip Glass. He performed in numerous formations, engaging musicians from various musical backgrounds to improvise with the classical organ, such as percussionist Leonard Eto, trombone player Roland Dahinden, guitarist Alfredo Genovesi and violinist Oene van Geel. He played in festivals around Europe with the project Cathedral Mobile, a composed structure for improvisation with organ, live electronics, various instruments and dancers. In recent years, he made a series of ambient compositions for installation art, including Humus with Mariëlle Videler, and Between Light and Spiraling into Infinity with Children of the Light.
