Annelies van Gerven, singing teacher
Lidwien Boumans, piano teacher
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There was a time when there was no future for certain music: too Jewish, too black, too modern, too atonal, too nationalistic, too folkloric, too mundane, too lowbrow ... Entire musical movements and genres were labelled 'entartete kunst' in Nazi Germany. Impressionist or atonal works - such as by Claude Debussy and Alban Berg - were banned. Alleged political colour determined whether your work was good or not. Kurt Weill? Too Marxist and also Jewish. Or Hanns Eisler: atonal, Marxist ánd Jewish. And what about the music of black composers like George Gershwin, or women like Henriette Bosmans? At the same time, other music was extolled. Works by the so-called 'German heroes' - Strauss, Wagner, Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann - were instead very much played.
Participants of the master class Music Never Silences! chose two songs to work on with vocal teacher Annelies van Gerven and pianist Lidwien Boumans: one by a composer or musical genre that was 'forbidden' and one from works that were not forbidden. They worked on making the confrontation between permitted and forbidden music audible and tangible.
During the presentation recital, participants will take on the challenge of showing in front of an audience what they have learned as a song duo.
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Annelies van Gerven / singing teacher
Annelies van Gerven studied singing at the Utrecht Conservatory. At the second International Competition for Lieder accompanists in 1988, she won the prize for best Dutch duo together with pianist Lidwien Boumans. For Van Gerven, teaching is a greater passion than being on stage herself. She teaches young and old in both classical and musical repertoire. At the KunstenHuis Idea music department in Zeist, she led Het Zangtheater for almost thirty years. For her, there is nothing like turning your hobby into your profession.
Lidwien Boumans / piano teacher
Lidwien Boumans studied piano at the Utrechts Conservatorium with Herman Uhlhorn and song accompaniment with Thom Bollen. With singer Annelies van Gerven, she won the prize for the best Dutch duo at the International Song Accompaniment Competition. She took singing lessons with Michel de Kort.
Boumans was correpetitor to Meinard Kraak, her great mentor and inspiration in poetry and music. She became a much sought-after song accompanist at concerts and competitions. She devised the Liedklas for amateur duos. In her own music company De Toetsenhoek, she teaches piano and coaches song duos. She also sings in Huis van de Weemoed Portuguese fado, translated by herself, and her own Dutch songs.
Small church hall / Zusterplein 20 / 3703 CB Zeist
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