National Boys' Choir Led by Irene Verburg
Juniors rehearsal Marjolein Verburg
Hans Eijsackers, piano
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Youth has the future, and that certainly applies to the young talents of the National Boys' Choir. They are eager to perform in Zeist and bring stories to life through their music. Thirty boys from the National Boys' Choir will capture the hearts of young and old with top hits from classical music and the most beautiful folk songs. They will sing the Ave Maria By Franz Schubert, Pie Jesu from Andrew Lloyd Webber's requiem and Edelweiss from the Sound of Music. But they also take us on a journey with folk music from Korea, Suriname and Bulgaria. A colourful and catchy programme with songs for the whole choir and soloists from the National Boys' Choir!
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Mel. G.W. Stölzel
Bist du bei mir (BWV 508)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Hymne à la nuit
Soloist: Marwan
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Sound the trumpet
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
'O Tuneful Voice' (Hob. XXVIa:42)
Soloist: Wourick
Giulio Caccini (1545 – 1618)
Ave Maria
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Laudamus to
Soloists: Syl and Wourick
Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
L'amour de moi
Arvo Pärt (*1935)
Vater unser
Am Brunnen vor dem Tore - Lindenbaum
Soloists: Lasse
Marwan and Lucas
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Da unten im Tale
Soloists: Mendel and Fedja
Jonathan and Wourick
Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)
Abendsegen (from the opera: Hänsel und Gretel)
Béla Bartók (1881-1941)
Altal mennék
Ablakomba
Ich ging durch einen grasgrünen Wald (Germany)
Soloist: Philip and Lucas
Byla cesta (Czech Republic)
Soloist: Syl
Lasse and Nelis
Kaval Sviri (Bulgaria)
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979)
Edelweiss
Soloist: 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.
Large church hall / Zusterplein 12 / 3703 CB Zeist
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