Gent Festival of Flanders 2016 by Gent Festival van Vlaanderen

Published by Barbara Stevens, Kleine Gentstraat 46, 9051 Ghent, Belgium

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Saint-Bavo’s Cathedral Sint-Baafsplein 4

Capitole Gent Graaf Van Vlaanderenplein 5

Floralies Hall Citadelpark

De Bijloke Music Centre Jozef Kluyskensstraat 2

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TON KOOPMAN & AMSTERDAM BAROQUE ORCHESTRA TUE 20.09

SAT 17.09

OdeGand, the annual opener of the cultural season, is a celebration of music on and along Ghent’s canals. Use a boat to travel from one concert to the next and enjoy top-notch concerts of all genres, from world music, to jazz and classical music. One ticket grants you access to all boats as well as to over 60 performances by the world’s most respected artists. Don’t miss our breath-taking musical happening at Graslei and Korenlei later that night and our magic bonfire you won’t forget anytime soon.

“The Festival of Flanders in Ghent is one of the most important festivals of Europe” © Steven Hendrix

Tickets: € 28 Programme online on 17 August www.odegand.be

We offer you a colourful collection of living legends of the concert platform, and of young talent on its way to the big breakthrough. We offer you intensity, heroism and inspiration. We offer you heroes and icons!

Frederik Sioen & band - vocals, guitar, keys, bass, drums & percussion Rony Verbiest - accordion & saxophone N'Faly Kouyaté - marimba, kora & African percussion Soweto Vocal Quartet - vocals

J.S. Bach - Orchestral Suite n° 3 in D major, BWV 1068 - Sinfonia in D major, BWV 1045 Brandenburg Concerto n° 4 in G major, BWV 1049 - Brandenburg Concerto n° 3 in G major, BWV 1048 - Sinfonia from Cantata, BWV 42 Orchestral Suite n°4 in D major, BWV 1069

FESTIVE OPENING CONCERT

Thursday 22 September 2016 8:30 p.m. Capitole, Ghent Tickets: € 12 - € 18 - € 22 - € 28

Programme

When Vadim Repin won the Queen Elisabeth Competition at the age of 17, it was written in the stars: this young man would be looking at a golden career in the future! Many agree on the possibility that Repin could be the most ‘complete’ violinist of this time… For Ghent he chooses Jean Sibelius’ enchanting Violin Concerto. Repin shares the stage with the lively Beethoven Bonn Orchestra. They demonstrate their qualities with a performance of Gustav Mahler’s masterly First Symphony, which tells you a story filled with birdsong and awakening nature, folklore dances and marching music. A landmark in musical history!

Tickets: € 12 - € 25 - € 45 - € 55

COMPAÑÍA SHARON FRIDMAN – FREE FALL FRI 23.09

Gent Festival is honoured to welcome the Vienna Boys Choir with their golden angelic voices in Saint Bavo’s Cathedral! The choir has been in existence now for more than 500 years and was originally connected to the royal court in Austria. Legendary composers like Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and Bruckner have worked with them. Their musical programme in Ghent will be based on Joseph Haydn. Influences of gypsy music of Austrian and Croatian folk music are never far-off in Haydn’s music. Composers in the centuries that followed drew inspiration from his oeuvre. Enjoy an impressive journey in the footsteps of Haydn!

Monday 19 September 2016 8:30 p.m. Saint Bavo’s Cathedral, Ghent Tickets: € 12 - € 28 - € 48 - € 58

Compañía Sharon Fridman Luis Miguel Cobo - conductor

Tickets: € 12 - € 16 - € 32 - € 38

Friday 23 September 2016 8:30 p.m. Capitole, Ghent

Brace yourself for The Generation Project, the story of an emerging talented musician and an internationally acclaimed star on stage together! For the second year of this project, our artistic director scouted young Harriet Krijgh, an enchanting and promising cellist. At her side we will be welcoming one of the world’s leading cellists Pieter Wispelwey. And to top it all off, you get to enjoy the warm, vibrant sound of the strings of Casco Phil, conducted by Frank Agsteribbe!

Tickets: € 12 - € 20 - € 30 - € 35

Programme

Evgeni Bozhanov - piano Athens State Orchestra Stefanos Tsialis - conductor

Wednesday 28 September 2016 8:30 p.m. De Bijloke Music Centre, Ghent Tickets: € 40 - € 52

ARTBEAT. SAT 01.10

TUE 27.09

WITH PIETER WISPELWEY & HARRIET KRIJGH

Compañía Sharon Fridman, with Free Fall, will stage a dance performance in a unique collaboration between 6 professional dancers and 20 local amateur dancers and live music on stage. Expect a powerful and very physical choreography with dancers looking for the liberation of a ‘free fall’!

NEW NIGHTLIFE CONCEPT Expect a unique evening with a lush fusion of musical styles! Let yourself get carried away at night on the sounds of well known cross-over artists. Don't miss this spectacular closing of Gent Festival of Flanders! Saturday 1 October 2016 8:00 p.m. Secret Location, Ghent Tickets: € 28

Georg Philipp Telemann - Ouverture des nations anciens et modernes in G major, TWV 55:G4 Zoltán Kodály - Sonata in B minor for cello solo, Op. 8 Béla Bartók - Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 68, BB 76 Astor Piazzolla - Libertango Max Bruch - Kol Nidrei, Op. 47 Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto for 2 cellos in G minor, RV 531

Programme J. Haydn, J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, R. Schumann, K. Kodàly

Vienna Boys Choir Jimmy Chiang - conductor

Harriet Krijgh & Pieter Wispelwey - cello Casco Phil Frank Agsteribbe - conductor

Tickets: € 12 - € 20 - € 30 - € 44

Wednesday 21 September 2016 8:30 p.m. Saint Bavo’s Cathedral, Ghent

Vadim Repin - violin Beethoven Bonn Orchestra Christof Perick - conductor

L. van Beethoven - Overture ‘The Ruins of Athens’, op. 113 G. Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue N. Skalkottas - 5 Greek dances M. Theodorakis - Suite ‘Zorba The Greek’

Monday 26 September 2016 8:30 p.m. Floralies Hall, Ghent

THE GENERATION PROJECT

Programme J. Sibelius - Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47 G. Mahler - Symfony n° 1 in D major

Programme

Anima Eterna Bruges Jos Van Immerseel - conductor

WED 21.09

For the first time at Gent Festival: the Athens State Orchestra! The orchestra takes up a leading role as ambassador for the works of Greek composers. As such, the Athens State Orchestra is a musical partner to composer and living legend Mikis Theodorakis. The orchestra will perform his snappy suite Zorba the Greek along with Greek Dances by Nikolaos Skalkottas. The popular music from the birthplace of our Western civilization is set to clash with what can only be described as a counterpart from America: George Gershwin. Pianist Evgeni Bozhanov, laureat of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition, enters into a dialogue with the orchestra in the wellknown Rhapsody in Blue. A search for roots and tradition, it is a concert that will continue to resonate for a long time!

Antonìn Dvořák - “The Water Goblin” Symphonic Poem op. 107 - Nocturne for string orchestra in B major, op. 40 - Symphony no. 9 in E minor, op. 95 “From the New World”

Tuesday 20 September 2016 8:00 p.m. Saint Bavo’s Cathedral, Ghent

VIENNA BOYS CHOIR – ALMOST ANGELS

MON 19.09

ATHENS STATE ORCHESTRA – GREEK ROOTS WED 28.09

Gent Festival moves to a location which appeals to the imagination: the Floralies Hall. This is where the orchestral power and beauty of Dvořák’s 9th Symphony will be heard. Dvořák wrote his masterpiece in the United States. He immersed himself completely in the American culture and got to know the music of the AfricanAmericans and Native Americans, but in the meantime he draws on the folk music of his beloved homeland the Czech Republic. Anima Eterna Bruges and Jos Van Immerseel bring Dvořák’s music score to life. After their recent successful debut in Sydney and in New York, we are curious about how they will take over the Floralies Hall with a canvas of sound bursting with colour and energy!

Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra Ton Koopman - conductor

Facts & Figures

Thanks to Gent Festival of Flanders, the city of Ghent has been baptised “Creative City of Music” by UNESCO.

Programme Paul Simon: Graceland

Programme

– Barbara Hendricks

Paul Simon’s album Graceland has earned iets place amongst the most awesome records. Graceland is an album brimming with African grooves and upbeat rhythms in an eclectic mix of Western and non-Western musical styles. We asked Sioen, our artist in residence for two years, to get to work on this remarkable record. Exclusively for Gent Festival of Flanders, he decided to follow the example set by Paul Simon and work with South African singers. We are looking forward to seeing what legendary hits like Homeless, The Boy in the Bubble and Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes will sound like!

We have already lost count of the number of prices that were won by the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra for their numerous CD recordings: a couple of Edison Music Awards, the Gramophone Award, a Diapason d’Or, … The great inspirer of the worldrenowned orchestra is Ton Koopman, a prominent personality within the old-music movement. Koopman developed an impressive CD-oeuvre as a harpsichordist and organist, especially with music of Buxtehude and Bach. He is also bringing Bach to the Cathedral of Ghent: the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and the widely praised Ton Koopman will surely generate sparks with an exquisite combination of Brandenburg Concertos and Orchestral Suites.

“OdeGand is a concept that is the envy of many festivals both in Belgium and abroad. It is therefore often copied but the original continues to prevail.”

ANIMA ETERNA BRUGES – FROM THE NEW WORLD MON 26.09

Tuesday 27 September 2016 8:30 p.m. Saint Michael’s Church, Ghent Tickets: € 14 - € 30 - € 35

Saturday 17 September 2016 1:00 – 11:00 p.m. Downtown Ghent, various locations

SIOEN PLAYS GRACELAND THU 22.09

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