Felix Mendelssohn
From ‘Three Motets’ Op. 39
N° 1 Veni Domine
N° 2 Laudate pueri (Terzetto: Michelle Vilar, Hannelore Baum, Elena Wiese) choir and organ
Felix Mendelssohn
Sonata III, Op. 65 N° 3, Movement 1: Con moto maestoso – organ
Franz Schubert
Ständchen Op. 135 (Soloist: Liina Sumberg)
choir and piano
Johannes Brahms
From ‘Thirteen Canons’ Op. 113
N° 2 Grausam erweiset sich Amor an mir
N° 7 Wenn die Klänge nahn und fliehen
N° 12 Wenn Kummer hätte zu töten Macht
Johannes Brahms
Prelude ‘Herzlich tut mich verlangen’ Op. 22, N°10 – organ
Frédéric Chopin
Ballade No 3 in A flat major Op. 47 – piano
Karol Szymanowski
Etude in B flat minor Op. 4, N°3 – piano
Amy Beach
Romance for violin and piano Op. 23
Felix Mendelssohn
From ‘Three Motets’ Op. 39
N° 3 Surrexit Pastor Bonus
I. Choir and soloists (Anna Wojciechowska, Liina Sumberg, Hannelore Baum, Caroline Will)
II. Duet (Liina Sumberg, Caroline Will)
III. Alto solo (Caroline Will)
IV. Choir
Vocal Ease, http://www.vocaleasebru.com, is an international female
choir formed in Brussels in 2010 by a group of experienced choral
singers and the choral director Marta Jakubiec. The choir has
already given concerts in Belgium, Germany, Great Britain and
Poland. Apart from singing female choir repertoire, the group also
organizes baroque projects for mixed choirs inviting male singers
and baroque orchestras. If you would like to sing in our choir,
contact us at: vocaleasebru@gmail.com.
Vocal Ease singers : Geraldine Barry, Hannelore Baum, Pam
Clements, Sonia Collaço, Fiona Collier, Judith Floyd, Maria-Joanna
Horodyska, Tamina Huber, Susanne Nielsen, Anne Schwarz, Valerie
Sculfor, Liina Sumberg, Borbála Széles, Michelle Vilar, Elena
Wiese, Caroline Will, Anna Wojciechowska.
Marta Jakubiec is a Polish choir conductor having wide
experience in conducting both professional and amateur choirs
(among others: BBC Singers, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Young
choir Vox Laci in Portugal, The Estonian Choir Beene and
BachWerk in Brussels). She is also a passionate music teacher to
people at different ages, who created the music centre Do-Re-Mi, http://www.doremibelgium.com. Marta also works as a vocal coach in
the projects organized by Operamus, http://www.operamus.eu, aiming at
preparation and performing Italian operas in BOZAR by children of
numerous primary schools in Belgium.
Enric Moya studied violin with Alberto Reguera at the Conservatorio
Municipal de Música de Barcelona until 2022 and is now training under
Yossif Ivanov at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, supported by the Agustí Pedro i Pons Foundation. He has won awards at competitions like Les Corts International Music Competition, Concours Breughel, and Marie Cantagrill Violin Competition. He currently plays an Enrico Rocca violin (1910) on loan from Strings For Talent, thanks to the generosity of Anne Marie Frère and her family.
Born in Portugal, Duarte Soares started playing the piano at the age of 5, and
completed his Bachelor and Master degrees at the Royal Conservatory of
Brussels with Daniel Blumenthal. He has won awards in several competitions,
most recently 2nd prizes at the Liège Piano Competition and the Concours Andrée Charlier (2024). He has performed regularly in several halls in Portugal, Spain, Belgium and Denmark, in solo or chamber music recitals, and played Beethoven’s Concerto No. 5 with the Orquestra do Norte. He was invited twice to participate in the Thy Chamber Music Festival (Denmark), and played in Festival Resonances and Ars Musica (Belgium), as well as recording for Porto Pianofest and for Klara Radio with Alexander Declerq and João Pedro Gonçalves. He was also awarded a Bärenreiter scholarship.
Arnaud Van de Cauter is a professor of organ at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Liège and of body training and stress management at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Mons. He has made several recordings praised by the international press, including a complete set of organ works by Pieter Cornet, a 17th-century composer from Brussels. He is regularly invited to perform in Belgium and abroad (BOZAR, Festivals of Wallonia, Mosan Summer Festival, Avignon, Toulouse-les-Orgues, etc.) A therapist in Somatic Experiencing® and NARM®, Arnaud Van de Cauter has developed a physiological approach to stress management aimed at everyone. He offers private consultations in Rixensart. For musicians and artists, he teaches “Well-Being on Stage – ESSE[1]” in workshops, seminars, and training sessions in Belgium, France, and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The next seminar will take place in Overijse in March, April, and May 2025. For more information, visit http://www.echo-art.be.
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