Bernhardt Hilbrand Edskes (28 October 1940 – 21 September 2022) was a Dutch-Swiss organist and organ builder based in Wohlen.

[1] As a result of the North Sea flood of 1953, numerous new organs had to be built in the Netherlands, for which the Swiss company Metzler received orders.

In 1966, he married Doris Edskes née Utzinger Alber, a federally certified structural draughtswoman, with whom he has two daughters.

[1] For years, Edskes was chairman of the Swiss Association of Organists and lecturer in organ building at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and at the Zurich University of the Arts.

As for his brother, the Groningen organologist Cor Edskes, the work of Arp Schnitger forms the focus and conceptual orientation for quite a few of his new buildings.