When Belgium experienced its last full solar eclipse in 1999, the horn players of the Korpus Quartet had only just seen the light. In its brand new concert programme ECLIPS, this young group explores this fascinating interplay of light and dark. With Jeroen Billiet as horn soloist, they perform contrasting works by Robert Schumann and Dmitri Shostakovich, among others, that take the audience to the brightest and darkest places of the universe and the human soul. They discover the twilight zone in between in an arrangement of L'Ascension, Olivier Messiaen's meditation on the Christian feast. In this programme, even more than its religious content, the work carries a promise of caring for our living world. If you missed the 1999 solar eclipse, this performance may be your best chance of ever experiencing one.

Date: Thursday 30 January 2025, 20h15

Location: Sint-Jacobuskerk, Jozef Reusenslei, 2150 Borsbeek

Info & tickets: https://www.uitinvlaanderen.be/agenda/e/zuidrand-klassiek-korpus-hoornkwartet-eclips/9dcee751-3cd0-4a7d-bf7b-412d9669a0c0?eventCategories=2d157133-cada-481b-9153-e6a1b42f34a2&place=borsbeek

De gemeente Herent organiseert in samenwerking met Reveil een ingetogen troostconcert op de begraafplaats van Herent.

Het troostconcert, door Korpus Kwartet, vindt plaats op 1 november tussen 17u en 18u, rond zonsondergang.

Het troostconcert wilt - zoals de naam het zegt - troost bieden, op een warme manier mensen samen brengen en een eerbetoon zijn aan alle overledenen.

Samen maken we van de begraafplaats een plek waar honderden Herentse verhalen samen komen, grootse én gewone verhalen.

Meer info: https://www.reveil.org/gemeente/3020/herent

Ontdek Across the Distance - Een uniek participatieproject met en voor (amateur)hoornisten

Ben jij een gepassioneerde hoornist? Musica Impulscentrum nodigt jou uit om deel te nemen aan het participatieproject Across the Distance in het kader van het OORtreders Festival van 18 tot 20 oktober 2024.

Dit project, geïnspireerd door de visionaire compositie van de Amerikaanse meester John Luther Adams, is doordrenkt van de zoektocht naar authenticiteit en verbinding. Adams’ meesterwerk Across the Distance voor 8 hoorns, nodigt deelnemers uit om samen te smelten met de natuur en de ruimte, terwijl ze een krachtige boodschap van eenheid overbrengen.

Tussen 24 en 32 gepassioneerde hoornisten zullen onder de vakkundige begeleiding van het Korpus Kwartet deze indrukwekkende compositie instuderen. De climax van ons avontuur? De uitvoering ervan tijdens OORtreders Festival op zaterdag 19 oktober 2024 om 18.00 uur, te midden van Het Klankenbos te Pelt.

Voor wie

24 tot 32 (amateur)hoornisten: leerlingen vanaf de derde graad, hoornisten die actief zijn in harmonieën of fanfares, studenten conservatoria en zelfs professionals. Kortom allen die de passie en vastberadenheid bezitten om deel te nemen aan dit unieke project)

Wanneer

13 oktober 2024: repetitie van 14.00 tot 16.00 uur (optioneel)
19 oktober 2024: repetitie vanaf 13.00 uur + uitvoering om 18.00 uur

Meer info en inschrijvingen

https://www.musica.be/nl/across-the-distance/

Program to be announced

Location: Conservatory of Kortrijk , Conservatoriumplein 1, 8500 Kortrijk

Few instruments are so deeply connected with its roots as the horn with the forest. That’s why the four young Belgian horn players of Korpus Kwartet bring the instrument back to its origin. Don’t expect traditional hunting music, but a completely new approach. Together with composer Siebe Thijs they set to work integrating refreshing insights from the bestseller ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ by the German forester Peter Wohlleben into a brand new piece: WALD. Watch, listen and feel the wondrous world full of feelings and emotions that houses the massive trunks of the wood.

Guillaume Michiels | Jason Enuset | Jonathan van der Beek | Urmin Majstorovic

Date: Sunday 22 September 2024, 11h

Location: Bos N - Viooltjesstraat, 2850 Boom (BE)

Info & Tickets: https://www.desteigerboom.be/korpus-kwartet

Few instruments are so deeply connected with its roots as the horn with the forest. That’s why the four young Belgian horn players of Korpus Kwartet bring the instrument back to its origin. Don’t expect traditional hunting music, but a completely new approach. Together with composer Siebe Thijs they set to work integrating refreshing insights from the bestseller ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ by the German forester Peter Wohlleben into a brand new piece: WALD. Watch, listen and feel the wondrous world full of feelings and emotions that houses the massive trunks of the wood.

Reindert Geirnaert | Jason Enuset | Jonathan van der Beek | Urmin Majstorovic

Date: 21 July 2024, perfomances as 11h, 13h & 15h

Location: Amfitheater op landgoed Wolfslaar - Charlotte Cuypersdreef 1, 4834 SR Breda.

Info & tickets: https://www.chasse.nl/nl/programma/9414/korpus-kwartet/wald

Few instruments are so deeply connected with its roots as the horn with the forest. That’s why the four young Belgian horn players of Korpus Kwartet bring the instrument back to its origin. Don’t expect traditional hunting music, but a completely new approach. Together with composer Siebe Thijs they set to work integrating refreshing insights from the bestseller ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ by the German forester Peter Wohlleben into a brand new piece: WALD. Watch, listen and feel the wondrous world full of feelings and emotions that houses the massive trunks of the wood.

Time: Sat 20 July, 19h

Place: Kasteeldomein de Marnix de Sainte Aldegonde - Kasteelstraat 35, 2880 Bornem (BE)

Info & Tickets: https://www.terdilft.be/activiteiten/wald

Few instruments are so deeply connected with its roots as the horn with the forest. That’s why the four young Belgian horn players of Korpus Kwartet bring the instrument back to its origin. Don’t expect traditional hunting music, but a completely new approach. Together with composer Siebe Thijs they set to work integrating refreshing insights from the bestseller ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ by the German forester Peter Wohlleben into a brand new piece: WALD. Watch, listen and feel the wondrous world full of feelings and emotions that houses the massive trunks of the wood.

Guillaume Michiels | Jason Enuset | Jonathan van der Beek | Urmin Majstorovic

Date: Saturday 29 June 2024, 20h

Place: Parking Jongerencentrum Hal P | Mulkerstraat 1 | Tongeren (BE)

Info & tickets: https://moment.tongeren.be/moment-festival/wald

Few instruments are so deeply connected with its roots as the horn with the forest. That’s why the four young Belgian horn players of Korpus Kwartet bring the instrument back to its origin. Don’t expect traditional hunting music, but a completely new approach. Together with composer Siebe Thijs they set to work integrating refreshing insights from the bestseller ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ by the German forester Peter Wohlleben into a brand new piece: WALD. Watch, listen and feel the wondrous world full of feelings and emotions that houses the massive trunks of the wood.

Guillaume Michiels | Jason Enuset | Jonathan van der Beek | Urmin Majstorovic

Date: Sat 1 June 2024, 15.00h

Location: Klein Engelandhoeve (Klein Engeland 29, Turnhout)

Info & tickets: https://www.warande.be/programma/8173/korpus-kwartet/wald

Few instruments are so deeply connected with its roots as the horn with the forest. That’s why the four young Belgian horn players of Korpus Kwartet bring the instrument back to its origin. Don’t expect traditional hunting music, but a completely new approach. Together with composer Siebe Thijs they set to work integrating refreshing insights from the bestseller ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ by the German forester Peter Wohlleben into a brand new piece: WALD. Watch, listen and feel the wondrous world full of feelings and emotions that houses the massive trunks of the wood.

Guillaume Michiels | Jason Enuset | Jonathan van der Beek | Urmin Majstorovic

Date: Sunday 5 May 2024 at 16h30

Lieu: Provincial Domain Kessel-Lo (Leuven, BE)

When Belgium experienced its last full solar eclipse in 1999, the horn players of the Korpus Quartet had only just seen the light. In its brand new concert programme ECLIPS, this young group explores this fascinating interplay of light and dark. With Jeroen Billiet as horn soloist, they perform contrasting works by Robert Schumann and Dmitri Shostakovich, among others, that take the audience to the brightest and darkest places of the universe and the human soul. They discover the twilight zone in between in an arrangement of L'Ascension, Olivier Messiaen's meditation on the Christian feast. In this programme, even more than its religious content, the work carries a promise of caring for our living world. If you missed the 1999 solar eclipse, this performance may be your best chance of ever experiencing one.

Jeroen Billiet | Guillaume Michiels | Jason Enuset | Jonathan van der Beek | Urmin Majstorovic

Date: Sunday 21 April 2024, 11h

Location: Het Applauws Lauwe, Kon. Astridlaan 44, 8930 Menen

Source: https://sites.google.com/academiemenen.be/muziekenwoord/vzw-akoestiek

Musical accompaniment to the service on the occasion of Palm Sunday. The celebration takes place in the church of the fairy-tale abbey of ‘Abdij van Park’, Leuven.

10h45 - Musical opening of the ceremony by Korpus Kwartet

11h - Start of the ceremony, with musical intermezzo’s

More informations: https://www.norbertijnenvanpark.be/about-5

Few instruments are so deeply connected with its roots as the horn with the forest. That’s why the four young Belgian horn players of Korpus Kwartet bring the instrument back to its origin. Don’t expect traditional hunting music, but a completely new approach. Together with composer Siebe Thijs they set to work integrating refreshing insights from the bestseller ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ by the German forester Peter Wohlleben into a brand new piece: WALD. Watch, listen and feel the wondrous world full of feelings and emotions that houses the massive trunks of the wood.

Special thanks to the agency ‘Natuur en Bos’. 

Sunday 29 oct 2023 · 7:30

Sunday 29 oct 2023 · 10:30

Attention, attention, ladies and gentlemen, and join us in this tantalising performance! In its primal form, the horn was already a signalling instrument, but actually throughout its history the same characteristic keeps recurring: attracting attention. To herald the hunt, announce the battle? Listen to the sound of the horn. An 18th century postal package on its way? Hear, hear, the honking of the post horn.

Meanwhile, of course, we are far removed from that era, but we have not become less clamorous for attention. Like an inspired brass band in a kiosk or enthusiastic buskers on the Meir - Korpus Kwartet puts together a programme that puts the horn in the spotlight. Or more accurately: where the horn puts itself in the spotlight. With music by Kurt Weill, Gioachino Rossini and Paul Hindemith, among others, and with extremes from the most fiery signal to the sweetest timbre, four horn players guide you through history in their own unique way.

Reindert Geirnaert | Jason Enuset | Jonathan van der Beek | Urmin Majstorovic | Olivier Collinet

Few instruments are so deeply connected with its roots as the horn with the forest. That’s why the four young Belgian horn players of Korpus Kwartet bring the instrument back to its origin. Don’t expect traditional hunting music, but a completely new approach. Together with composer Siebe Thijs they set to work integrating refreshing insights from the bestseller ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ by the German forester Peter Wohlleben into a brand new piece: WALD. Watch, listen and feel the wondrous world full of feelings and emotions that houses the massive trunks of the wood.

Korpus Quartet builds this performance around French composer Olivier Messiaen's L'Ascension, in an arrangement by Guillaume Michiels. It is a work originally written in two versions: one for symphonic orchestra and one for organ. The theme of the piece revolves around the church feast of Ascension, which normally takes place in May. In this programme, however, the work serves a different theme, not coincidentally on this day of Armistice Day. It deals with the transition between pain and recovery, between grief and mourning, or that between emptiness and light.

Few instruments are so deeply connected with its roots as the horn with the forest. That’s why the four young Belgian horn players of Korpus Kwartet bring the instrument back to its origin. Don’t expect traditional hunting music, but a completely new approach. Together with composer Siebe Thijs they set to work integrating refreshing insights from the bestseller ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ by the German forester Peter Wohlleben into a brand new piece: WALD. Watch, listen and feel the wondrous world full of feelings and emotions that houses the massive trunks of the wood.

Few instruments are so deeply connected with its roots as the horn with the forest. That’s why the four young Belgian horn players of Korpus Kwartet bring the instrument back to its origin. Don’t expect traditional hunting music, but a completely new approach. Together with composer Siebe Thijs they set to work integrating refreshing insights from the bestseller ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ by the German forester Peter Wohlleben into a brand new piece: WALD. Watch, listen and feel the wondrous world full of feelings and emotions that houses the massive trunks of the wood.

Few instruments are so deeply connected with its roots as the horn with the forest. That’s why the four young Belgian horn players of Korpus Kwartet bring the instrument back to its origin. Don’t expect traditional hunting music, but a completely new approach. Together with composer Siebe Thijs they set to work integrating refreshing insights from the bestseller ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ by the German forester Peter Wohlleben into a brand new piece: WALD. Watch, listen and feel the wondrous world full of feelings and emotions that houses the massive trunks of the wood.

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Few instruments are so deeply connected with its roots as the horn with the forest. That’s why the four young Belgian horn players of Korpus Kwartet bring the instrument back to its origin. Don’t expect traditional hunting music, but a completely new approach. Together with composer Siebe Thijs they set to work integrating refreshing insights from the bestseller ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ by the German forester Peter Wohlleben into a brand new piece: WALD. Watch, listen and feel the wondrous world full of feelings and emotions that houses the massive trunks of the wood.