New Voices for Singing Cities
05/2014 Flagey – BE
NEW VOICES for SINGING CITIES brings together an 80 children strong chorus together with HERMESensemble, led by Steven Verhaert. The project is centered around the creation and premiere of two new works by young French and Belgian composers, Karl Naegelen (Les villes endormies) and Hanne Deneire (Poppy).
The commissions are based around the theme of peace in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the First World War.
Under the supervision and guidance of MUS- E Belgium, a bilingual artistic organization and member of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation, 80 children aged 11 to 14 have been working throughout the year to work on putting together the event.
MUS- E provides a Belgium-based platform for professional artists to express their artistic vision in co-creative projects for the educational, non-formal or lifelong learning sector.
HERMESensemble is an Antwerp-based collective for contemporary music and art whose aim is to perform the classical avant-garde repertoire and consciously cross artistic borders.
Concert dates :
26/05/2014 – 13:30
27/05/2014 – 19:30
More information here. You can find some photos below and watch a short television report (in Netherlands) here.
Another short video about the project can be found here.
The concert will be presented again on 19th April 2015 in Milano (IT), in cooperation with the DIVERTIMENTO ENSEMBLE (also partner of the ULYSSES NETWORK).