Friday 30 October 2022
Friday 30 October 2022
C-mine
C-mine
C-mine
Saturday 1 Oct 22
Contest:
from 10 am - 12.05 pm : session 1
from 1.30 pm – 3.35 pm: session 2
from 4 pm to 6 pm: session 3
LA BIOCHORISTA – 20h00 at LA BIOMISTA - Genk
“LA BIOCHORISTA” a unique symbiosis between La BIOMISTA, nature & heavenly choral sounds.
During a fairytale evening walk in the twilight of this beautiful park, the public is surprised by the heavenly sounds of 6 international top choirs.
Moreover, this concert gives the listener the unique opportunity to discover LABIOMISTA at dusk.
Small and large theater
International
Choral Festival
Flanders Genk
HANS HELSEN, composer & music teacher
Hans Helsen [°1989], a Belgian composer, conductor, singer, and music pedagogue, is driven by a profound passion for connecting people of all ages through the power of singing. This passion is not just a part of his work but the very essence that threads through his entire musical journey.
Hans seeks to balance teaching, composing, and performing based on the conviction that these different skills complement each other. He has already written compositions for diverse line-ups but focuses on vocal music. In recent years, he has mainly written for young choirs. Hans won the Koor&Stem Composition Competition in 2011 with the work Parafrasie Paranoica. He is a double laureate in the European Award for Choral Composers (2014 with Missa Brevis and 2020 with Sanctus Amor), organized by the European Choral Association. Music publishers Euprint, Koor&Stem, Stringfun, and Helbling have published Hans' works.
Hans is the tenor, in-house composer, and co-founder of MAVIS, a new and ambitious Belgian a cappella group. Along with his fellow group members Anna Pardo Canedo, Anna Nuytten, Reinhard Andries, and Sander Meersmans, he aims to make vocal music accessible to as wide an audience as possible.
Hans is currently the Pedagogical Artistic Director at STAP Roeselare, a school for performing arts. He continues his work there as the conductor of the children's choir Sing In+ and the youth choir Schwoeng. He is also studying choral conducting with Luc Anthonis.
Additionally, Hans is involved in developing and teaching various educational workshops at the Bruges Concertgebouw to introduce all ages to the world of classical music and sound art.
Robert Lee Frost, lyricist
Robert Lee Frost (San Francisco, California, 26 March 1874 – Boston, Massachusetts, 29 January 1963) was an American poet and playwright. During his lifetime, Frost was a frequently quoted and honoured poet. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four times.
Frost drew his inspiration mainly from nature, the weather and the landscape of New England, the region where he lived.
In simply constructed poems, he explores complex social and philosophical themes.
Tekst: Robert Lee Frost
Muziek: Hans Helsen
To the Thawing Wind for SSAA 3’50”
Fire and Ice for TTBB 3’50”
The Aim Was Song for SATB 4’00”
Fire and Ice -
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
The Aim Was Song -
Before man came to blow it right
The wind once blew itself untaught,
And did its loudest day and night
In any rough place where it caught.
Man came to tell it what was wrong:
It hadn’t found the place to blow;
It blew too hard—the aim was song.
And listen—how it ought to go!
He took a little in his mouth,
And held it long enough for north
To be converted into south,
And then by measure blew it forth.
By measure. It was word and note,
The wind the wind had meant to be—
A little through the lips and throat.
The aim was song—the wind could see.
To the Thawing Wind -
Come with rain, O loud Southwester!
Bring the singer, bring the nester;
Give the buried flower a dream;
Make the settled snowbank steam;
Find the brown beneath the white;
But whate’er you do tonight,
Bathe my window, make it flow,
Melt it as the ice will go;
Melt the glass and leave the sticks
Like a hermit’s crucifix;
Burst into my narrow stall;
Swing the picture on the wall;
Run the rattling pages o’er;
Scatter poems on the floor;
Turn the poet out of door.
FESTIVAL ANTHEM: ALL TOGETHER!
With lyrics by René Swartenbroeckx, Paul Steegmans composed this fun sing-along especially for this festival.
We will sing this hymn with 1000 singers on Sunday 04 October at 17h30 on the C-mineplein.
