Wednesday, 24 August 2022

Tuesday, 23 August 2022

September 16th, 2022 - Concert Zwevegem

16 september Herfstconcert in Kerk van Sint-Denijs /Zwevegem om 19u30

September 9-11th, 2022 - Poppentheater Dordrecht (NL)

Dordrecht in Nederland: Poppentheater Damiet

Friday 09 september 2022 - 17:00h (SOLD OUT)
Opening Majed Saraydeen with reed flute
Francoise Vanhecke with oriental songs
Ticket: 10,--

Saterday 10 and Sunday 11 september 2022 - 08:00h (SOLD OUT)
Tour with a salmonboat
and Songs Françoise Vanhecke (BEL)
Ticket: 20,--

Monday, 22 August 2022

September 3rd, 2022 - Sint-Martinuskerk - Sint-Martens-Bodegem - Musica@Parola!

3 september om 20u in de Sint-Martinuskerk van Sint-Martens-Bodegem: Musica@Parola

Concertprogramma

Vorig jaar mochten we Françoise, Alice en Jean al verwelkomen in de kerk van Bodegem tijdens een hartverwarmend concert. Een jaar later keren ze terug, met ook nog dichter Roel Richelieu van Londersele erbij. Musica@Parola!

Ambiance verzekerd… en hier het voorlopige programma (want ze durven ook improviseren en bis-nummers bedenken :-))

Françoise goes Barocco solo

  • Giuseppe GIORDANO (1744-1798): Caro mio ben (arietta) – George Frederic HAENDEL (685 – 1759): Lascia ch’io pianga uit de opera Rinaldo
  • Giacomo CARISSIMI (1605-1674): Vittoria, mio core (cantata)
  • Christoph Willibald von GLUCK (1714-1787): O del mio dolce ardour (aria)
  • Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643): Lasciatemi morire uit opera Ariana
  • Giulio CACCINI (1551-1618): Ave Maria
  • Francesco DURANTE (1684-1755): Danza, danza, fanciulla gentile (arietta)

Roel Richelieu van Londersele leest voor uit eigen werk en ook Alice Toen zegt gedichten van hem

Back to the future met Jean en Françoise

  • Manuel de FALLA (1876-1946): Nana
  • Fernando SOR (1778-1836): Cesa de atormentarme // Muchacha, y la verguenza /li>
  • Federico Garcia LORCA (1898-1936): Sevillanas del siglo XVIII
  • Consuelo VELÀSQUEZ (1924-2005): Besame mucho
  • José Maria CANO (°1959): Hijo de la luna

Tuesday, 28 June 2022

June 30th, 2022 - Looking into the light

LOOKING INTO THE LIGHT -- LIVE SESSIE 1-2-3 WOLKENBREIER meets Muhka
I am invited to sing on the roof of Muhka - Thursday 30/06 18-21u
Live broadcast for Radio Centraal 106.7

Saturday, 11 June 2022

RESULTS OF THE 2022 NEW YORK WOMEN COMPOSERS SEED MONEY GRANTS

Presenting the winners of our 2021 Seed Money Grants!
We have awarded seven grants, two foreign (Belgium and Argentina) and five domestic (one of these is actually both, a concert in New York to be repeated in Tokyo, Japan). One grant is in a disseminated format, and the rest are focused grants.
One concert will initially be streamed online, with subsequent performances being planned. Additionally, some of the other concerts will be either streamed or available later on YouTube and Instagram or other such platforms. All the projects will include open calls for some or all the NYWC composers to be represented.
Rad more:
* Local press
* All winners
* I am happy to announce

Sunday, 5 June 2022

June 16th, 2022: Concert performance

16/06/2022: Concert performance "A Journey Into The Universe".
A musical journey through space with video and live music.
Artists: Pascal Coppé and Françoise Vanhecke.
Genre: symphonic electro with live vocals.

OC DE VONCKE - Lagaeplein 24 - Heule 8501.

Friday, 29 April 2022

April 30th, 2022 - Antennafestival

Looking forward and honoured to do a guest performance with Carl Deseyn at this special event.
Saturday 30/04/2022 Start 17 hr free entrance
Zaal den hannekensnest
Burggravenlaan 7 Evergem-Langerbrugge
View on Facebook.

Thursday, 21 April 2022

April 23rd, 2022: De Singel, Antwerp

I am part of it.
23/04/2022
Frauenliebe und - Leben, opus 42
Robert Schumann

regie & concept: Lulu Obermayer
commission & co-production: DE SINGEL co-production Forecast - Skills e.V with support by Stad München

The arrival of Lulu Obermayer is a breath of fresh air in the world of opera and classical music. With her radical interpretations, the young German director challenges the genre’s normative approach. Obermayer knows what she is talking about: she grew up in a context in which opera is ubiquitous. Her name is even derived from the eponymous opera by Alban Berg. For her latest performance, Frauenliebe und -Leben, she takes Robert Schumann’s eponymous song cycle as her starting point. For Obermayer, the stereotypical image of the devoted, faithful 19th-century woman who dedicates her life to the man of the house is the perfect starting point for focusing on a number of issues. The cycle is extended by Obermayer to eight hours, the length of a working day, and the solo voice is obliged to give way to eight female voices. In a musical installation there is reflection on the complexity of being a woman, female love and mothership.

More info

Wednesday, 9 March 2022

March 1st., 2022: release of digital album / compact disc "Stordeur Tribe".


Stordeur was born in Haine-Saint-Paul. His musical career started in 1977 with a tape composition for the soundtrack to a film on Gordon Matta-Clark titled "Office Baroque", by Eric Convents and Roger Steylaerts. 

Later in the 1970s, he participated in the avantgarde music ensemble "Studio voor Experimentele Muziek", founded in Antwerp, Flanders, by Joris De Laet in 1973. S.E.M.'s associate composers in the 1970s included: Dirk Veulemans, Paul Adriaenssens, Karel Goeyvaerts, Lucien Goethals and Serge Verstockt. 

Stordeur founded his own electronic music studio "Studio Synthèse" in 1973 in Brussels.

In 2020, the Antenna Fest paid tribute to this forerunner in Belgian and international electronic music. The result of this tribute has now been released in the form of a CD and a digital download. 

Artists who once worked with the man have put him in the flowers. as there are Willy Van Buggenhout and Françoise Vanhecke Soprano, Guy Drieghe D.  

You can hear the result at the Bandcamp of AntennA.


Released: March 1, 2022.


More on Françoises Inhaling Singing technique: Francoise Vanhecke at TEDxGhent

Friday, 29 October 2021

October 30, 2021 - November 7th., 2021: World Choir Games.

October 30 - November 7, 2021, Flanders, Belgium.

Dr. Françoise Vanhecke will be part of the International Jury for the 11th. World Choir Games 2021 -  Flanders, Belgium.

More information: World Choir Games.




October 31, 2021: musical ode to the trees and the soundtrack to the book 'De Ommeloze'.

"The Ancient Tree" is a musical ode to the trees and the soundtrack to the book "De Ommeloze" about a hollow, single maple tree. 

On Sunday 31 October 2021, we will play the closing act of the project "A tree is more than it says" at 6 pm in the atmospheric flower studio De Egelantier - Otegem.  

Register : 0475 / 92 34 64

Entrance is free, with free contribution, bring a mouth mask.

Composer Carl Deseyn with Dimitri Tsiroyannis, Graciela Zaera, Andy Declerck, Esther Coorevits and soprano Françoise Vanhecke.


November 1st., 2021: memorial moment at the cemetery "Hoog Kortrijk"

On November 1, "Radio Reveil" organizes a memorial moment at the "Onument" at the cemetery of Hoog Kortrijk. 

At 17 o'clock the Alphabet Choir welcomes the visitors. Then the men of Blokbusters interview witnesses from different cultural backgrounds about their experiences with saying goodbye. The interviews are interspersed with music and poetry. 

The soprano Dr. Françoise Vanhecke closes this nice initiative. Everything can also be followed via livestream.






Monday, 25 October 2021

September 18th., 2021 - November 13th., 2021: lecture series "Nouvelle Fiari"

The International Federation of Independent Revolutionary Art presents: lecture series "Nouvelle Fiari".

The impact of ISFV, inhaling singing, a new extended technique by dr. Françoise Vanhecke.


Watch the video: Fiari




Watch the video: Fiari 





Thursday, 23 September 2021

23 oktober 2021 - SÉRIE DE CONFÉRENCES NOUVELLE FIARI

 https://fiari.art

http://fiari.art/the-impact-of-isfv-inhaling-singing-a-new-extended-technique-by-dr-francoise-vanhecke/

The impact of ISFV® Inhaling Singing, a new extended technique by dr. Françoise Vanhecke

La soprano et chercheuse parlera de l'impact de l'ISFV®, Inhaling Singing dans le répertoire vocal et de son rôle d'expressivité dans le contexte large du paysage musical.

October 21st., 2021: Robotango: Flemish dance organs and Argentinian tango music.

 21 October 2021: "Robotango": Flemish dance organs and Argentinian tango music.

Where? Kelderzaal, De Centrale, Kraankinderstraat 2, 9000 Ghent.


Voice: Françoise Vanhecke

Dance: Pol Van Assche & Isolde Audooren

Robots: Logos Foundation

In collaboration with vzw Polariteit

Supported by: the Flemish Government & the city of Ghent


In this tango salon, Logos Foundation unites the Flemish tradition of the dance organs with the tradition of the Argentinian tango salons. Enjoy an evening full of rousing rhythms and sultry melodies! 11 robots and soprano Françoise Vanhecke perform tangos by Weill, Sassone, Gardel, Castillo, Piazzolla and Matos Rodríguez and make you dream of Buenos Aires. The quick steps and passionate movements of the dancers of vzw Polariteit take you to warmer places. If the corona measures allow this, a tango workshop will take place before the performance.

Youka / Kurt Weill






Wednesday, 22 September 2021

October 15th., 2021: a journey into the universe.

15 October 2021, church in Bissegem: a musical journey into the universe.

Composer: Pascal Coppé

Vocals: Françoise Vanhecke

Composer: Pascal Coppé

Vocal artist: Françoise Vanhecke 



Tuesday, 21 September 2021

JAZZMADD “LIEFDE VAN LATER” & ALICE TOEN- FRANÇOISE VANHECKE - JEAN VAN DER SCHUEREN

Op zaterdag 9/10 oktober brengt Jean Van der Schueren, bezieler vz.van vzw Duende, 

JazzMadd opnieuw naar oa.Denderleeuw in de sfeervolle en gezellige parketzaal van ’t Kasteeltje,

naar het “theaterPact” in Aalst en naar “buurthuis De Liberale Kring” Ninove


"Muziek en poëzie voor man en vrouw… anders bekeken”. Dat is het motto van de avond.

Alice Toen, Françoise Vanhecke en Jean Van der Schueren brengen een concertant boeket van poëzie,

gitaar en zang met muziek en teksten over de liefde, passie, vrolijkheid en vele andere thema’s van het leven.

Ze presenteren muziek van zowel mannelijke als vrouwelijke componisten. 


za.09/10/’21- 20u

‘t Kasteeltje

Stationstraat 7

Denderleeuw 


zo.10/10/‘21 -11u 

Theater Pact - 

Erembodegemstraat 30

9300 Aalst 


zo.10/10/‘21 - 19u

De Liberale Kring 

Dreefstraat 16

9400 Ninove