Choir & HipHop
In this project the classical university choir, rapformation FaceIt, beatbox-er ----DASH---- and DJ Kwakman worked in just 2 rehearsals on a combined performance: combining different music styles, different ways of making music, but a similar motivation for making music. The music was prepared by a choirmember (choir arrangement) and one of the rappers (raptext on music of Philip Glass). The result has been performed twice in festivals: Februari Muziekmaand and Europa Cantat Mainz 2006. (9/8/2006) Listen to the result:

• 'Hoe nu verder' - Text & Music: FaceIt, arr. Marnix Izeboud
• 'There are some men' - Music: Philip Glass, Text rap: FaceIt
• 'Alles wat je hebt' - Text & Music: FaceIt, arr. Marnix Izeboud

'Viva, San Marco!'
The Venetian San Marco as inspiration for the first program of vocal ensemble 'oTTeTTo'. Composers who worked and lived for the musical live in the San Marco. Impressive sacred choral music has been written in the 16th and 17th century. But these composers too wrote secular music for special (or even non-special, daily) occasions. For example the 'Triaca Musicale', a set of comical madrigals to abandon the plague: A singing contest between birds, selling a slave, kids learning the alphabet and last but not least workers having a party. Both the music from inside and outside this San Marco in one program appeared to be a pleasure for both ear and eye. Read the interview about the program (in Dutch only).

Oepra
Oepra is a short composition, written for (or after) a special, funny or strange occasion, it is quite easy to rehearse, but still an experience to perform. Oepra is the group of singers composing, rehearsing and performing the compositions. Oepra once was meant as Opera in a discussion on a choir forum, 24 hours later the first Oepra was composed and performed: composed with the, on the forum, suggested jungle feeling with the word Oepra. A lot of Oepra's followed this example (e.g. Fiets, Zonder Alt, de Blauwe Paashaas, IKF-vrijwilligerslied). The first public performance at an open stage in Enschede resulted in the jury award. But above all Oepra is a way to explore the do's and don'ts in composing vocal music and performing and rehearsing new music. Listen to Oepra - music: Daphne Wassink, Lyrics: Gijs van Oort, Performers: Oepra.

Ex Silentio
The ensemble Ex Silentio in 2004 consisted of mainly students (from conservatory till engineering), both singers as instrumentalists. On the program treasures from the German Baroque: Tunder, Drese, Kirnberger and Kuhnau. Happiness, joy and grief: affects expressed superb in the baroque music. From the early Baroque (Tunder) till the very end of the Baroque (Kirnberger). Part of the project was a masterclass in performing ancient music on modern instruments and in contemporary setting. The rehearsals and concerts in the Netherlands and Germany were a unforgettable tour through the music and its emotions.