International Song Festival Zeist seeks board member

Since its inception in 2015, International Song Festival Zeist has staged eight successful editions and is counted among the top three song festivals in Europe. Every year in May, the festival celebrates the art of song for 10 days in the intimate ambience of the Church Hall of the Evangelical Brethren Church, a stone's throw from Slot Zeist. We will do so with recitals, an extensive talent development programme of professional song duos, much attention to education and participation of audience and amateur singers, and a large-scale schools project. Because keeping the song repertoire alive and passing on the love for the art of song to future generations is key.

And that is appreciated, as visitors invariably rate the festival with a generous 8. For eight years now, some 4,000 visitors have listened to well-known and unknown songs performed by internationally renowned musicians; made excursions into choral and chamber music; presented innovative programmes with emerging talents; experienced how musicians blossom during the master classes; listened to fresh interpretations of the song during the Young Artist Platform and let ourselves be touched by children and young people during the presentation of the schools project and the youth concerts.

International Song Festival Zeist is well embedded: locally, nationally and internationally. Close to home, we work closely with KunstenHuis Idea. On a national level, we cooperate with Royal Conservatoire The Hague and Friends of the Song. In recent years, we have also worked hard on international partnerships. It is now a tradition that young, promising song duos from Oxford International Song Festival perform at the festival and that winners of the Young Artist Platform in turn get the stage in Oxford. And that is just some of the wide-ranging connections the festival has managed to make.