Ai vida ... Natura!
Start: Saturday 11 April
Private master class for advanced amateur duos (singer*es-pianist*e) led by. Annelies van Gerven and Lidwien Boumans. Registration is possible until Sunday 15 March.
Suffering from love, feelings of loneliness or the sadness of life are universal themes recognised by everyone. Many liederen sing of these feelings; the liederen of romance are even known for them. But these feelings are of all times. Portuguese fado is steeped in them, and they keep recurring in our own language too, in lifelied, nederpop or cabaret. Just think of Paul van Vliet's catchy A howl like a thunderstorm hangs in each of us. But when the crying fit is over and the thunderstorm is over, we can enjoy everything else in life too. And thank God there is nature!
In nature, you find shadows of stars that heal the heart, singing nightingales and roses, moments of contemplation and even wandering lights ... But whichever way you look at it, the great adventure of nature in which we encounter ourselves as well as the other will keep repeating itself and is thus an inexhaustible source for poets and composers. Where first there was neither finch nor nightingale, a proudly singing bird arose from the egg and everything will eventually become ‘Earth, and air, and rain’ again.
For this master class, we invite amateur duos (singer*es-pianist*e) to choose two liederen from the repertoire list in which life in all its aspects is reflected, heightened, softened, healed, or put in a new light by nature. There are three private master classes in which each duo works on the chosen liederen with vocal teacher Annelies van Gerven and pianist Lidwien Boumans. After the final masterclass, the presentation will take place on Saturday 23 May in the Kleine Zaal.
Sign up as a duo (singer*es-pianist*e) by no later than Sunday 15 March send an e-mail to educatie@ilfz.nl. In it, mention which two liederen you would like to work on, stating:
Together, the liederen may last a maximum of 9 minutes.
Please remember to include voice type, name and contact details (e-mail address and phone number) of both the singer*es and the pianist*es. Placement is in order of entry.
€ 440 per duo (singer*es-pianist*e)
€ 360 - young talent duos (singer*es-pianist*e) < 30 years old
Up to 6 duos
You will receive an invoice for payment.
Before the start of the festival in May, you will receive one free ticket per person for the evening recital Histoires naturelles on Saturday 23 May by Simon Keenlyside and Malcolm Martineau and a pass-partout for the public master classes for professionals.
Closed master class
Private masterclass & presentation
Closed master class
ArtsHouse ldea
Markt 3, 3701 JZ Zeist
Private masterclass & presentation
Small Hall Evangelical Brethren Church
Zusterplein 20, 3703 CB Zeist
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
The Desire for Hermitage
Solitary Hotel
Sure on this shining night
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
From: An die ferne Geliebte
1. Auf dem Hügel sitz’ ich spähend
2. Wo die Berge so blau
6. Nimm sie hin denn, diese Lieder
Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Night
Peelflied
Die Nachtigall
Im Zimmer
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
From: Les Nuits d'Eté
Le Spectre de la Rose
Henriette Bosmans (1895-1952)
Chanson
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Feldeinsamkeit
Da unten im Tale
Sapphic Ode
Treue Liebe
Ach, und du mein kühles Wasser
Alte Liebe
Nachtigall
Die Mainacht
Dein blaues Auge
Wie rafft ich mich auf
Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht
Von ewiger Liebe
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
The Salley gardens
The trees they grow so high
Oh, waly, waly
Winter
Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Le colibri
Anna Cramer (1873-1968)
Weisst du noch?
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Green
C'est léxtase langoureuse
From: Chansons de Bilitis
1. La flûte de Pan
2. La chevelure
3. Le tombeau des Naiades
Patrick Doyle (1953-)
Weep you no more, sad fountains
Henri Duparc (1848-1933)
L'Invitation au voyage
Phydilé
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Asturiana
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Claire de lune
Mai
Automne
Au bord de l'eau
Aurore
Arpège
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
Come away death
Proud songsters
Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
So I have feared
It never looks like Sunday
Oh fair to see
Marius Flothuis (1914-2001)
The orchard
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Summertime
Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Viens! Les gazons sont verts
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Llorad, Corazón, que tenéis razón
Edward Grieg (1843-1907)
Letzter Frühling
Die verschwiegene Nachtigall
Gruss
Lauf der Welt
Reinaldo Hahn (1874-1947)
L'heure exquise
Le rossignol des lilas
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Tom sails away
Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)
There are fairies at the bottem of our garden
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Die Lorelei
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Nun will die Sonn’ so hell aufgehn
Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Élégie
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1808-1847)
Hexenlied
Xavier Montsalvatge (1912-2002)
Canto negro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Abendempfindung
Dans un bois solitaire
Léon Orthel (1905-1985)
Übung am Klavier
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Dans l'herbe
Fleurs
Lune d'avril
Fagnes de Wallonie
La grenouillère
Tu vois le feu du soir
Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
By a fountainside
Ottorini Respighi (1879-1936)
Mattino di luce
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
La pastorella
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Le jardin mouillé
Amoureux séparés
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Erwartung
Waldsonne
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
All from: Die Winterreise
All from: Die schöne Müllerin
Die Forelle
Frühlingsglaube
Auf dem Wasser zu singen
Nacht und Träume
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Der Nussbaum
Ich wandelte unter den Bäumen
Du bist wie eine Blume
Aus den östlichen Rosen
Mit Myrten und Rosen
All from: Liederkreis op. 39
from: Dichterliebe op. 48
Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai
Aus meinen Tränen spriessen
Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube
Ich will meine Seele tauchen
Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome
Ich grolle nicht
Und wüssten's die Blumen
Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Tomorrow
Allerseelen
Schlechtes Wetter
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Let beauty awake
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Im Treibhaus
Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
Cavatina
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Kennst du das Land
Er ist's
Verborgenheit
Mein Liebster singt am Haus
Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942)
Blue Sternlein
Briefchen schrieb ich
Annelies van Gerven / singing teacher
Annelies van Gerven studied singing at the Utrecht Conservatory. At the second International Song accompaniment Competition in 1988, she won the prize for best Dutch duo together with pianist Lidwien Boumans. For Annelies, teaching is a greater passion than being on stage herself. She teaches young and old in both musical and classical repertoire. At KunstenHuis Idea music department in Zeist, she led Het Zangtheater for almost thirty years. From September 2025, she gives private lessons for advanced singers and coaches ensembles. For her, there is nothing more fun than turning your hobby into your profession.
Lidwien Boumans / piano teacher
Lidwien Boumans studied piano at the Utrechts Conservatorium with Herman Uhlhorn and lied 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 sought-after lied accompanist at concerts and competitions. She devised the Song Class for amateur duos. In her own music company De Toetsenhoek, she teaches piano and coaches lied duos. She also sings self-translated Portuguese fado and her own Dutch-language work in Huis van de Weemoed.