- Anonymus: Tourdion, choir and drum
- Orlando di Lasso: Adoramus te Christe I
- Orlando di Lasso: Adoramus te Christe II
- Orlando di Lasso: Justus cor suum tradet (The righteous man gives his heart)
- Orlando di Lasso: Expectatio justorum (The hope of the righteous)
- Bach-Gounod: Ave Maria, soprano solo (Liina Sumberg) and marimba
- Keiko Abe: Michi, marimba
- Zoltán Kodály: Ave Maria
- Franz Mertens: Ave Maria
- Miklós Kocsár: Ave Regina Caelorum
- Eric Whitacre: Seal lullaby, choir and vibraphone
- Mark Glentworth: Blues for Gilbert, vibraphone
- Stephen Hatfield: Missa brevis (Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei)
- Traditional: Irish blessing
- William Byrd: Hey ho, to the Greenwood, choir and drum
PERFORMERS
Adrien Fortemps: marimba, vibraphone, drum
Choir Vocal Ease
Marta Jakubiec: conductor
Adrien Fortemps (marimba, vibraphone, drum) began his musical
training with Jacky Coppens at the academy before continuing at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where he studied with Louison Renault and Pierre Quiriny. He obtained a Master’s degree in Percussion as well as a teaching diploma in percussion. Alongside his conservatory studies, he took lessons with Laurent Mercier and participated in numerous masterclasses with internationally renowned musicians such as Dom Famularo, Alex Acuña, Xavier Roger, Bernard Grodo, and Gabriel Laufer. Open to all musical styles, Adrien has performed with ensembles including the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ensemble Orchestral de Bruxelles, Candide Orchestra, the Orchestra of the 21st Century, and the Chapelle Musicale de Tournai. He is also active in contemporary music with the ensemble Musiques Nouvelles and plays drums in various jazz, big band, pop-rock, and variety projects. He currently teaches percussion at the academies of La Botte du Hainaut, Braine-l’Alleud, and Waterloo.
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. Follow us on Facebook (Vocal Ease Brussels) and Instagram (vocaleasebru).
Singers:
S1: Geraldine Barry, Sonia Collaço, Rachel Stacchini, Liina Sumberg, Michelle Vilar
S2: Hannelore Baum, Fiona Collier, Anna Leoue, Leena Salakari, Anne Schwarz
A: Pam Clements, Judith Floyd, Maria Horodyska, Esther Sermage, Małgorzata Tourdanov
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 with professional orchestras and singers.
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