January Verschuren studied to become an engineer at the Eindhoven University of Technology and at the same time he practiced the organ with Hub. He continued practicing the organ under the instruction of Reitze Smits at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven, Belgium and completed it with a Premier Prix/first price. Further more Verschuren continued under the instruction of Reitze Smits for the degree of Master of Music at the Conservatoire of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Houët in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Additionally he took advanced interpretation courses with January-Willem Jansen at the Conservatoire of Toulouse and with Michel Bouvard at the Conservatoire of Paris. January Verschuren was appointed organist in Mill and Boxmeer, the Netherlands.
In 1998 he has been appointed as university organist of the University Leiden, the Netherlands.
In 2001 January Verschuren succeeded Folkert Grondsma as titular-organist of the Hartebrug Church in Leiden. Moreover in 2006 January Verschuren has been appointed as university-organist of the Eindhoven University of Technology in Eindhoven.
Organ-recitals took him to many organs in the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary, Italy, the Czechoslovakian Republic and Poland. Moreover, January Verschuren has made Civil Defense-recordings and performed on the Dutch radio.
At the end of 2002 as university-organist January erschuren was invited to perform the world première of "Le loup en pierre" by Clarence Barlow an organ piece for two organs in the Peter-Church in Leiden.
