Event description
Heavy bronze bells seem completely at odds with thin fluffy feathers. But in this concert, the carillon's music will sound as soft as down, as light as tassels and as colourful as feathers!
Along with the music, you will flutter, flutter, float and soar through well-known and lesser-heard pieces and songs that are united by the common theme of feathers and feathers. From a mysterious bird to a distant angel, from one colour to many - everything is possible here!
The concert will feature both classical and contemporary pieces, old and new songs. You will also hear original compositions written especially for the carillon. The concert programme includes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Enchanted Flute" (Papageno aria), Richard Wagner's "Die Walküre", original compositions for the carillon by Tom Gurin and Jeroen Malaise, as well as songs by The Beatles, Frank Sinatra and Robbie Williams. All this music will give you wings!
It is important to mention that during the concert Witold Maciak (Poland) together with Jasper Depraetere will perform a duet-premiere in Lithuania: "The Song of The Sunset Sea" by Loreta Narvilaitė (1965).
CULTURAL BY AREA:
The Cuckoo
Matthias Vanden Gheyn (1721 - 1785)
Prelude Coucou
Plumage on Stage
Plumage on Stage;
Victor Massé (1822 - 1884)
Air du Rossignol
From the operas ''Les Noces de Jeannette''
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Scenes from "Papageno"
Selections from the opera'Die Zauberflöte'"
Pjotr Iljitsj Tsjaikovski (1840 - 1893)
Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20a, TH. 219
- Scène
- Valse
- Dance of the Cygnettes
- Czardas: Hungarian Dance
Lightly feathered fluttering
Loreta Narvilaité (°1965)
"Song of the Sunset Sea"
Witold Maciak (Poland) will be performing a duo premiere in Lithuania together with Jasper Depraeter: "The Song of The Sunset Sea" by Loreta Narvilaitė (1965). This work is dedicated to the still silent Klaipėda Carillon.
Alan Silvestri (°1950)
Feather theme
From the film "Forest Gamp"
Jos Lerinckx (1920 - 2000)
Four White Ducks
Four White Ducks
Jos Lerinckx (1920 - 2000)
Four White DucksFour White Ducks
Feathers in bronze
Peter Pieters (°1957)
Twilight
Tom Gurin (°1995)
Things With Feathers
Selection of feathered evergreens
Randy Crawford (°1952)
One Day I Fly Away
Bart Howard (1915 - 2004)
Fly Me To The Moon
Paul McCartney (°1942)
Blackbird
Arrangements: Anton Brees (2), Jasper Depraetere (3, 4, 6, 10, 11, 12)
APIE
Jasper Depraetere studied carillon at the Academy of Lille at the age of 9 with Koen van Assche. Later he mastered bass guitar and piano at the same academy. From the age of thirteen, he combined his studies at the Academy of Lille with studies at the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen. Jasper graduated from the Royal Carillon School in 2018 with honours. In 2024, he obtained a Master's degree in Carillon and Music Pedagogy with highest distinction from the Lucca School of Arts (Lemmens, Leuven) and is currently pursuing a second Master's degree in chamber music.
In 2015 Jasper won the International Youth Carillon Competition in Deinze and in 2016 he became president of the Liers Carillon Society, and began performing in Belgium and abroad. In 2019 he won second prize and the audience prize at the prestigious Queen Fabiola International Carillon Competition.
Jasper Depraetere is a popular guest carillonist both in Belgium and abroad, having participated in numerous international carillon festivals. Since 2020 he has been deputy carillonneur of the City of Liege and since this year he has been carillonneur of the City of Molo.
