Choir

The vocal ensemble Musa Horti was founded in 1989 by Marc and Peter Dejans. The choir is based in the Park abbey of Heverlee (Leuven), which inspired the ensemble for its name Musa Horti or "Muse of the Park”. Ever since the beginning, the choir is conducted by Peter Dejans and it consists of about 32 highly motivated singers.

 

The ensemble considers its mission to break new musical ground and to actively look for rarely-performed, high-quality music, including both a capella literature and music for choir and orchestra. With this view, Musa Horti further strengthens its profile in Flanders as a much-wanted first performer of new choral music. On a regular base, the ensemble commissions Flemish composers, which has already resulted in the recording of three CD’s with music by Kurt Bikkembergs, Rudi Tas and Vic Nees. Recently, in 2010, the choir collaborated with the renowned Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström and it achieved a historical result (97%) in the highest category of the Choir Contest of the Province of Flemish Brabant in 2011. In 2012, Musa Horti was one of the partners of the Culture Festival ‘kulturama’ in Leuven.

 

For several years already, Musa Horti counts as a well-established, strongly performing choir in Flanders and Belgium. Through the constant renewal of its concert repertoire, the creation of new compositions and the frequent collaboration with composers, solo musicians and other ensembles, Musa Horti succeeds in reaching an ever-broadening audience.

 

 

 

 
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Meet our members

Sopranos

Serafina Beck

Kristien Debrock

Liesbeth Kempenaers

Stien Martens

Hanne Sterckx

Annick Swinnen

Nicole Totté

Maarte Vanhee

Laura Cornelissen

Chiqui Melissen

 

 

 
Sopranos

Altos

Inge Beyers

Karen Claes

Hilde Deboeck

An Dejans

Dorien Leroy

Hilde Pottie

Charlotte Vekemans

Elien Feyaerts

Ljuba Ponomarev

 

 

Basses

Jan Baeten

Lieven De Geetere

Marc Dejans

Koen Eneman

Filip Ruison

Ewald Wauters

Pieter-Jan Van den Broeck

Seppe van Stee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Tenors & Altos

Tenors

Stefaan Van Gorp

Michiel Cuynen

Edwin Sablon

Yves Van Handenhove

Jan Dewinter

Joris Van Puyenbroeck

David Moens

Joost Van de Peer

 

 

 
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