Lyrics: Jan Coeck
Music: Hans Helsen

Live performance by Helicon led by Geert Hendrickx

Parafrasie Paranoica

This nocturne was written while I was planning a night out at a spare rib restaurant and touched up in the course of the next week. It starts in A-flat major before modulating to E-flat major, F major, F minor and finally back to A-flat major.

Sheets: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31640094/Music/Spare%20Rib%20Nocturne.pdf

Spare Rib Nocturne

De opname van mijn eerste orkestwerk uitgevoerd door deFilharmonie onder leiding van Wim Henderickx. 
'Labyrinthos' is gebaseerd op de mythe over het grote Labyrint onder het paleis van Koning Minos te Kreta zo'n 4OOO jaar geleden. Volgens de mythe had Koning Minos er in de gangen van het labyrint zijn minotaurus rondlopen, een wezen dat half mens half stier was. Als boetedoening voor de moord op Minos' zoon moesten ieder jaar 7 jonge Atheense mannen en 7 jonge Atheense vrouwen het labyrint betreden om vervolgens verslonden te worden door de Minotaurus. Totdat Theseus kwam...

The recording of my first orchestral piece performed by the Royal Flemish Philharmonic with Wim Henderickx as the conductor. 
The piece is based on the ancient myth about a large Labyrinth under the palace of King Minos in Crete about 4000 years ago. According to this myth there was a creature named 'Minotaur' living in that labyrinth. As a punishment because the King's son was killed, every year 7 young men and 7 young women from Athens had to enter the labyrinth and would be eaten by the Minotaur. And then Theseus came..

Labyrinthos - Nick Van Elsen - Soundmine 2014 - deFilharmonie

After Mahler's Second and Ninth symphonies in previous seasons, chief conductor Lars Corijn, together with the young and energetic Mahler Student Festival Orchestra, ventures into this very challenging masterpiece. A musical rollercoaster along the human affections that is absolutely not to be missed.

3 - Comodo (Scherzando) Ohne Hast

Official recording of the symphonic poem 'Pro Patria Mori' - T. Hondeghem (2015) for soprano voice and symphonic wind band . This piece was commissioned by, dedicated to and performed by the royal wind band Ypriana (conducted by Nico Logghe). 

This recording was made during the premiere on 01/05/'15 during the concert 'Ypres As We Remember' in CC Het Perron in Ypres (BE). 

More info about other compositions of Hondeghem:
www.tomhondeghem.be

Pro Patria Mori - T. Hondeghem

we are nowhere

The Rise is geschreven als opdracht voor het koperensemble Conservatorium Antwerpen gedirigeerd door Jan Smets. De thema's zijn geïnspireerd op de schilderijen tentoonstelling van Modest Moussorgsky.

http://www.tomcollier.be/the-rise/

The Rise

I < 3 You (demo version for loving people)

Chamber orchestra: Soprano, Flute, Trumpet (muted), Euphonium (muted), Harp, Percussion, Marimba (± 4 min)

As a forester's son, Richard Dehmel got his first impressions of nature, wandering the oak forests tended by his father and wrote this beautifull poem, the inspiration for this peace, he writes about an overwelming force, the beaty of being still and in this moment one with nature.
 
Morganandacht is written for a project in the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp for Ensemble XXI and as a Bacholor III exam. This project is a collaboration of the Composition department, Ensemble XXI and the Voice department.
 
Premiered wednesday 17 may 2017 - Witte zaal - Ensemble XXI onder leiding van Frank Agsteribbe - Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen.

http://www.tomcollier.be/morgenandacht/

Morgenandacht

Hommage aan een goede vriend ... Dirk De Caluwe

Amicitia - Nico Schoeters

Odolhem for wind orchestra (2019)

dedicated to Rik & Vera Beuselinck 
and all the musicians of the "Koninklijke Harmonie Sint-Cecilia Oedelem", conducted by Geert Baeckelandt

commissioned for the 180th birthday of the "Koninklijke Harmonie Sint-Cecilia Oedelem"

live recording by Twelve bvba (www.twelve.be) on the 16th of November 2019 at "OC De Kleine Beer" in Beernem by "Koninklijke Harmonie Sint-Cecilia Oedelem" (conductor: Geert Baeckelandt)

Odolhem (wind orchestra)

Belgian conductor
Chief-conductor of the Mahler Student Festival Orchestra
Assistant-conductor to Gergely Madaras at the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège.