Boys' voices of the future

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Mel. G.W. Stölzel
Bist du bei mir (BWV 508)

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Hymne à la nuit
Solist: Marwan

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Sound the trumpet

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
O Tuneful Voice’ (Hob. XXVIa:42)
Solist: Wourick

Giulio Caccini  (1545 – 1618)
Ave Maria

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Laudamus to
Solisten: Syl en Wourick

Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
L’amour de moi

Arvo Pärt (*1935)
Vater unser
Am Brunnen vor dem Tore – Lindenbaum
Solisten: Lasse
Marwan en Lucas

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Da unten im Tale
Solisten: Mendel en Fedja
Jonathan en Wourick

Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)
Abendsegen (uit de opera: Hänsel und Gretel)

Béla Bartók (1881-1941)
Altal mennék
Ablakomba

Ich ging durch einen grasgrünen Wald (Duitsland)
Solist: Philip en Lucas

Byla cesta (Tsjechië)
Solist: Syl
Lasse en Nelis

Kaval Sviri (Bulgaria)

Richard Rodgers (1902-1979)
Edelweiss
Solist: Nur

Irene Verburg / choral conductor
Irene Verburg studied voice at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. After graduating, she won prestigious talent scholarships, including that of the Ministry of OCW and the Stipendium for the Bayreuther Festspiele. Verburg is a laureate of the International Vocal Competition 's-Hertogenbosch and participated in the Wagner Academy. In recent years, she has been heard in various opera roles, concerts, oratorios and song recitals. She founded chamber music ensemble DUTCHmusicians, which mainly performs orchestral songs arranged for the ensemble in small, changing line-ups. Verburg also frequently works as vocal coach for the National Children's Choir and the National Youth Choir of Vocal Talent Netherlands, and she currently conducts the National Boys' Choir. In this role, she prepares concert productions in collaboration with renowned international conductors such as Maris Janssons, Markus Stenz and Philippe Herreweghe.

Hans Eijsackers / piano
Hans Eijsackers studied at the conservatories of Amsterdam and The Hague, and at the European Mozart Academy in Kraków. His teachers were Gérard van Blerk, Jan Wijn and György Sebök. He won prizes at the European Piano Competition and received the Silver Vriendenkrans of the Concertgebouw. He is currently a professor at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, where in recent years he developed the curriculum for the new master's specialisation Lied.
Eijsackers performs frequently as a soloist, chamber musician and song pianist, and forms an inspired song duo with Henk Neven. As a jury member and master class teacher, he is a regular guest at home and abroad and regularly visits Lithuania as 'ambassador for the art song'. In addition, Eijsackers is artistic director of the International Student Song Duo Competition in Groningen, which took place for the seventh time in November 2024. Since 2022, he has been the artistic director of the festival together with Henk Neven.

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