Internationaal
Lied Festival Zeist
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Knights and Legends

Roderick Williams, bariton & Roger Vignoles, piano: Ridderverhalen en hoofse liefde in liederen uit alle windstreken.

Une parole de tes lèvres

Rosanne van Sandwijk, mezzosopraan, Robin Tritschler, tenor, Dana Zemtsov, altviool en Lestari Scholtes, piano: bijbelse verhalen, heiligen hun gebeden en legenden.

Tales of the Unexpected

Henk Neven, bas-bariton, Hans Eijsackers, piano, Olga Zuiderhoek, verteller: spannende verhalen op muziek.

Muzikaal verhaal

m.m.v. Utrechts Jeugdkoor, Kleinkoor Stichtse Vrije School, Minko Hulscher, piano, Matthew Pryymak, electrische gitaar, Timen De Bruijne, cello, Wendel De Bruijne, viool, Bas Verheijden, piano, Natasja Douma, piano, Anita Van Soest, presentatie.

De Troubadour

Soprano Judith van Wanroij, bariton Maarten Koningsberger, Maarten van der Grinten, gitaar, Regina Albanez, luit/theorbe: liederen van alle tijden.

Can you tell me where my country lies?

Mezzosopraan Olivia Vermeulen, pianist Hans Eijsackers & Pynarello: Een muzikale wereldreis langs de VS, de Balkan, het Midden-Oosten en Zuid-Europa.

Schöne Welt, wo bist du?

Marie Seidler, mezzosopraan & Toni Ming Geiger, piano: liederen over oorlog, het universele verlangen naar vrede en hoop op een betere wereld.

Mythen en Sagen

Raoul Steffani, bariton, Sholto Kynoch, piano, Suze van der Poll, letterkundige en verteller: liederen over Griekse mythen en Scandinavische sagen en mythische wezens.

Verhalen uit Duizend-en-een-nacht

Carolyn Sampson, sopraan & Joseph Middleton, piano: liederen over de noodzaak tot het vertellen van verhalen.

Samen onderweg

Samen onderweg m.m.v. Tibbe Alkemade, contratenor, Vitto van Leeuwen, piano, Fleur Overbeek, viool, Maartje van Assema, viool, Anna Várdy, altviool, Janko Wiebenga, cello, Studentenkoor Intonacatore o.l.v. Thea Bakker, Bas Verheijden, piano, Satu Hoogeveen presentatie.

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Het kunstlied is van iedereen!

Art song belongs to everyone!

We look forward to welcoming Roderick Williams again this year as one of our performing artists and artist-in-residence. We spoke to him and everything he said radiated his enthusiasm for art song and teaching.
Geef de liedkunst door!

Pass on the art of song!

Onlangs mochten wij een nieuwe mecenas welkom heten. Ter nagedachtenis aan zijn partner besloot hij om haar liefde voor het lied door te geven aan een volgende generatie. Het festival…
In memoriam Rudolf Jansen

In memoriam Rudolf Jansen

Thursday, February 15, we received the sad news that Rudolf Jansen passed away on Monday, February 12. He was 84 years old. For over 55 years, he worked as a song pianist with well-known singers ....

In the middle of leafy Zeist,

a stone's throw from Slot Zeist, the church of the Evangelical Brethren Church is the concert venue for the International Song Festival Zeist. The combination of song art, in which nature often features so prominently, and the location guarantee hours of listening pleasure.

Tell me more!

festival theme 2024

Human beings have an irrepressible need for stories. To tell them and to hear them. Indeed, a life without stories is no life at all. That is why, for as long as humans have existed, stories have gone around the world. They cut across all cultures, continents and strata of society. Often, ancient narratives from different corners of our planet also correspond in content. Oral stories, written stories, visual stories ... it is an inexhaustible amount.

Our earliest childhood begins with stories. They stimulate our imagination, comfort us or make us wince. And they teach us to distinguish between reality and fiction by pushing boundaries. Don't we all want to learn to understand ourselves and the world better? The magical fusion of text and music, makes songs a moving and intense medium to meet this. The theme of the 2024 festival is therefore: Tell me more! Tell me more! 

From Friday 17 to Sunday 26 May 2024, we will explore knight's tales and courtly love, religious stories and myths and sagas. We will hear tales of war and peace. And of course colourful fairy tales are not missing, such as the tales from One Thousand and One Nights.

Listen and tell with us! Because you will hear the most beautiful songs at Internationaal Lied Festival Zeist.

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