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Concert with Collegium de Dunis
April 6, 2016 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Concert with the choir Collegium de Dunis from Belgium with their director Ignace Thevelein.
Program:
- John Duggan, Tu excitas
- Pierre de la Rue, Laudate Dominum
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Sicut cervus
- Tomas Luis da Vittoria, Ne timeas Maria
- Leonhard Lechner, Magnificat secundi toni
- Francesco Guerrero, Canite tuba + Rorate caeli
- Adriaan Willaert, O magnum mysterium
- Clemens non papa, Magi veniunt ab oriente
- Arvo Pärt, Da pacem Domine
- John Duggan, Pater noster
- Jean Richafort, Christus resurgens
- Luca Marenzio, O rex gloriae
- Ola Gjeilo, Ubi caritas
- Patrick Hawes, Perfect love
- Urmas Sisask, Laudate Dominum
COLLEGIUM DE DUNIS
The choir Collegium de Dunis was founded in October 1995 and has ever since been conducted by Ignace Thevelein (1953). From the beginning, it offered its public a broad range of concert programs.
The motets and several cantatas of J.S. Bach has been performed, as well as his Magnificat, Christmas Oratory and the St John’s, St Mark’s and St Matthew’s Passion. Furthermore, G.F. Haendel’s Messiah and A. Vivaldi’s Gloria are amongst the baroque masterpieces on the choir’s curriculum.
A strong reputation was also gained in the field of a capella music from the renaissance to now. The choir regularly brings concerts with sixteenth-century polyphony. The pieces are chosen for their texts, which serve as a thematic thread throughout the program.
In 2000, the choir received a golden medal at the International Festival in Prague (Peter Eben Prize). The jury especially complimented the choir on their performance of Spanish polyphony.
Several cd’s were produced. The most remarkable among them were “Laus tibi”, featuring renaissance polyphony, which was released for the tenth anniversary of the choir in 2005. In 2011 the choir released “Puer Natus”, a CD that tells the story of Christmas with music from renaissance composers who lived in Flanders, Spain, Italy…
In 2007, in 2010 and in 2015 Collegium de Dunis was finalist of the choir competition of the Province of West-Flanders.
Beside their activities in Belgium, the choir also was several times guest in France, the Netherlands and United Kingdom. The choir made concerttours in France, in Czech Republic and in Bulgaria with performances of a capella music from Flemish composers from renaissance till now.
CONDUCTOR IGNACE THEVELEIN (1953) is priest of the diocese of Bruges, responsible of the church music in this diocese and kapellmeister of the Bruges Cathedral Sint-Salvator. He founded the choir Collegium de Dunis in 1953, and is also conductor of the Bruges Cathedral Choir.
After his study’s at Lemmens Institute in Leuven (B) and at the Royal Conservatoire in Gent he followed courses with Laszlo Heltay, with Prof. Peter Erdei at ‘Zoltan Kodaly Pedagogical Institute of Music’ at Kecskemét (Hungary) and with Frauke Haasemann during ‘Lehrgang für Chorleitung und Chorische Stimmbildung’ at Sankt-Moritz.
Ignace Thevelein is artistic director of the KOORACADEMIE BRUGGE which covers a festival week, several weekenDs and different workshops about choir music of all times.
He is the artistic advisor and a member of Koor&Stem, and is regulary asked for courses and seminars abroad.He is teacher of sacred music at the Groot Seminarie in Bruges and is responsible for sacred music in diocese of Bruges.He published several books on Flemish Church music.
