Sing your song

From Wednesday 13 to Sunday 24 May 2026, the tenth edition of Internationaal Lied Festival Zeist, our anniversary edition, will take place with the theme ‘Back to Nature’! Nature, the world around us, of which we are a part, the nature we can ‘make’ and break. Nature is also the inspiration for beautiful lieds and contemporary songs, also for our school youth.

In 2026, the festival will organise another project for secondary school students: Sing your song. Join us and listen to the voice of nature with your school's students!

Purpose and target group
Sing your song is a unique project in which secondary school students - led by Remy Alexander, composer and music teacher - learn to compose their own lied and perform it in front of an audience during Internationaal Lied Festival Zeist in May 2026 or in front of an audience at their own school on a date of their choice during the school year.

Students from the:

• • lower or upper secondary school as part of the Cultural and Arts Education subject;

• • upper secondary with Music as the final examination subject, in the school year preceding the final examination.

Each workshop lasts 1.5 hours. Workshop 1 and 2 will take place in February/March 2026 and will cover basic technique and lyrics, voice types and musical notation. Workshop 3 and 4 will take place in April/May 2026. Students will receive feedback on their own pieces and rehearse performing them.

The presentation of Sing your Song is on Monday 18 May 2026 in one of the halls of the Evangelical Brotherhood on Sister Square in Zeist, or on a date of your choice at your own school.