At the beginning of this millennium, Wim Henderickx struck a giant gong in de temple of Boudhanath, high up in the Nepalese Himalayas: the starting point for a series of unique compositions inspir...
On 18 December, we lost composer, musician, teacher and good friend Wim Henderickx. His sudden death leaves a deep void. We would like to invite you to honour Wim at a concert in collaboration with th...
Five parts will be musically explored and performed as part of a preparatory project for the musical theatre INNER LIFE, which will premiere in September 2024. INNER LIFE is as much a composition as a...
Wim Henderickx, and in 2009 composer in residence with HERMESensemble, refers to non-Western traditions in his approach to light and dark.
The composition comprises three main elements: Darkness, M...
The basis for REVELATIONS is 'Visions', a work in which the 13th-century poetess and mystic Hadewijch d'Anvers describes an ecstatic love relationship with the divine 'Other'.
This multimedia proje...
A new creation to the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré, supplemented with eastern-inspired compositions by Wim Henderickx, performed live by HERMESensemble.
In addition to the dancers of Royal Ballet Flande...
Wim Henderickx wrote DISAPPEARING IN LIGHT in 2007, when he was composer-in-residence at HERMESensemble. The piece marks the beginning of the intense collaboration between composer and ensemble.
The ...
HERMESensemble and Muziektheater Transparant present Peter Verhelst's contemporary adaptation of 'Medea', with music by Wim Henderickx.
In this adaptation, the myth is told from the point of view of ...
For La Biennale di Venezia edition of 2019, HERMESensemble conducted by Koen Kessels presents three of the most exciting scores for ensemble and video of the contemporary European repertoire. The conc...
The song cycle AYRE is one of the most remarkable and moving works of the 21st century. The experience of hearing this aesthetically radical piece for the first time is both invigorating and disorien...
Inner Life is as much a composition as it is an alchemical formula - or a game. It is a recipe for an artistic experiment in which all possible musical personalities and groups can participate.
Wim...
The search for the musical reproduction of light and dark has been a constant aspect of Western musical history ranging from the melismatic “Fiat lux” in Gregorian chant to the “clair-obscur” ...
HERMESensemble joins forces with Capella di Voce in a search of religion and mysticism.
The exploration starts with an early composition by Wim Henderickx: Three Interludes for Oboe, Horn and Piano...
Since 2017-2018, a separate development track has been set up for young composers studying at a conservatoire who participated in SOUNDMINE. THE TIMES ACADEMY is a design studio and co-creation track...
All information via the website of THE TIMES.
THE TIMES is a forum for young composers. A young composer can take classes at the music academy, participate in internships and try to master as many ...
Mireille Capelle appeared in various films and plays, as in an impressive number of operatic roles including Wagnerian parts such as Eva and Kundry, or Salome and Der Komponist (Richard Strau...
For five days, youngsters and adults with a passion for composing and creating push the limits of their own musical imagination. The whole week is focused towards a showcase where the creations or the...
Conductor Koen Kessels is Music Director of The Royal Ballet. He made his Royal Ballet debut in 2008 conducting The Nutcracker and has since returned every season, to conduct repertory including Th...
What do Erik Satie, Morton Feldman and John Cage have in common?
WORD PIECES consists of three separate parts that exceed the limitations of our usual ideas about opera or musical theatre. It canno...
FURIOSO by the Australian choreographer Meryl Tankard became world-famous thanks to the virtuoso choreography, some of which is performed aerially on ropes.
FURIOSO is a fiery and passionate work of ...
At the request of HERMESensemble and the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, Paolo Galli, an Italian composer and doctoral researcher at the Conservatoire, wrote a new Stabat Mater.
Its title is based ...
Creative place, artistic play space
For children from three months to three years and their supervisors
A cosy play area, an oasis of peace containing a nest, a sleeve tunnel house, a bamboo hut, a ...
In the production CABAN, Theater De Spiegel and HERMESensemble have explored the possibilities of contemporary music theatre for the youngest audience for many years.
In NOCTURAMA they take the sea...
HERMESensemble presents this modest but surprising concert, inspired by the fluxus movement, on the occasion of the Brick Sculptures exhibition by the Danish artist Per Kirkeby (1938-2018).
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CHUCHOTEMENTS BURLESQUES is a theatrical performance that brings together sound, light, image, speech and physical gestures around music. The performance of the work is the result of an intensive crea...
With Gustav Mahler’s DAS LIED VON DER ERDE, the French scenographer and director Philippe Quesne takes a look at the future of our planet. He mirrors his reflections on the Anthropocene (the era...
Bringing music from 1950 to 2050? HERMESensemble and Nemᴓ ensemble take up this challenge together from 2023 onwards.
In an artistic alliance, the seasoned musicians of HERMESensemble work togeth...
A spiritual journey to the limbus: the distance and time between two lights.
Inspired by the Buddhist Heart Sutra and the Bardo Thödol (also known in the West as the Tibetan Book of the ...
After the artistic playing space CABAN, De Spiegel is now creating a garden where you are allowed to feel and taste, bloom and grow.
A pleasure garden for the eyes, ears and, above all, for the imagi...
In ‘Haunted’, Nemø ensemble presents a collection of compositions by Pietro Dossena, inspired by the grotesque. Driven by the dialogue and persistent dichotomy between the ensemble and solo acous...
