CHOIR ACCOMPANIMENT
As time progressed, the VU-Orchestra has become a much wanted and appreciated orchestra for musical collaborations and for choir accompaniment. The Orchestra has collaborated in a vast amount of great productions together with the Haags Toonkunst Koor, the Nederlands Concert Koor, Toonkunst Amsterdam, Philharmonisch Koor Toonkunst Rotterdam en the KCOV.
The performances with these choirs often took place in beautiful concert halls such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, De Doelen, the Philharmonie in Haarlem, the Music Sacrum, as well as abroad in the Czech Republic and in Italy ( Florence and San Gimignano). In addition, there were also performances in the Netherlands at less common locations such as the Boulevard in Zandvoort and the Cruise Terminal in Rotterdam.
The VU-orchestra will still be available for choral accompaniments in the coming seasons. Whether the orchestra can provide choral accompaniment depends, besides the dates, on the level of its own seasonal program and the complexity of the requested choral accompaniment.
Choral accompaniment by the VU-Orchestra means that the orchestra is optimally prepared by their own conductor. The big advantage of choir accompaniment by the VU-Orchestra is the extra rehearsal time for choir and orchestra. On a weekend day before the final rehearsal and the concert, preferably in Amsterdam, the choir conductor rehearses with choir and orchestra (and soloists). Sometimes the choirmaster has already done some partial rehearsals (strings and / or wind instruments). In this way the final rehearsal is not the first and only choir-orchestra rehearsal with too little time and a lot of stress, as many choirs are used to, but a much more relaxed evening for small repairs and possibly run-through.
For information about a choir accompaniment by the VU-orchestra, please contact the board.
Finally, a chronological overview of the most recent choral orchestral productions of the VU-orchestra.
2019
Meezing Messiah – Nederlandse Reisopera
Consensus Vocalis
December 8th, Koninklijk Theater Carré
with Rick Muselaers
2018
Haags Toonkunst Koor, Hans-Sachs-Chor
Beethoven – Missa Solemnis
May 12th, Zuiderstrandtheater
with Daan Admiraal
2017
Meezing Messiah – Nederlandse Reisopera
Consensus Vocalis
December 9th, Koninklijk Theater Carré
with Nicolas Mansfield
2016
De Amsterdamse Cantorij, Coro Encanto, Kamerkoor Doulce Memoire, Koor Fenix, Projectkoor 023
Psalmen symfonie – Stravinski and several pieces of Felix van den Hombergh
November 12th, Dominicuskerk, Amsterdam
November 13th, H.Bavokerk, Heemstede
with Felix van den Hombergh
2015
Haags Toonkunst Koor
War Requiem – Britten
May 1st, Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
May 3th, Dr. Anton Philipszaal, Den Haag
with Daan Admiraal
2014
Haags Toonkunst Koor
Mendelssohn – Elias
Locatie: Dr. Anton Philipszaal, Den Haag
with Daan Admiraal
2013
Haags Toonkunst Koor
Roel van Oosten – Mare Liberum
September 18th
with Daan Admiraal
Vredespaleis, Den Haag
2013
Haags Toonkunst Koor
Fauré – Requiem, Franck – Les sept paroles du christ en croix
April 5th, Antonius Abtkerk, Den Haag
with Daan Admiraal
2011
Haags Toonkunst Koor
Mahler – Symfonie nr. 2
Januari 24th, Theater het Park, Hoorn
Januari 25th, Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
with Daan Admiraal
2010
Haags Toonkunst Koor, KCOV
Verdi – Requiem
November 13th, Dr. Anton Philipszaal, Den Haag
with Daan Admiraal
November 20th, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam
with Frank Hameleers
2008
Oratoriumkoor Eigen Wijs
Gounod – Messe Solennelle and l’honneur de Sainte-Cécile
Mozart – Krönungsmesse
Oktober 11th, Westerkerk, Amesterdam
Oktober 12th, Mariakerk, Enschede
with Pierre Schuitemaker
2007
Philharmonisch Koor, Toonkunst Rotterdam
Carlos Michans – Quid hoc dementiae est (première)
Brahms – Ein Deutsches Requiem
December 15th, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam
December 16th, De Doelen, Rotterdam
with Daan Admiraal
2006
Amadeus Liberatore & Camerata Choirs, USA
Mozart – Mis in c
June 30th, Chiesa di Santo Stefano al Ponte Vecchio, Florence
July 1st, Duomo, San Gimignano
with Jonathan Talberg