Palestrina Electrified

Name: Palestrina Electrified
Start: 2026-11-28T20:15:00+00:00
End: 2026-11-28T21:45:00+00:00
Location: Van Houtenkerk

Image from Wouter Steenbergen

Image from Monteverdi Kamerkoor

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Chamber choir and electric guitar: a rare combination that creates a surprising soundscape. Curious what that sounds like? Come to the Van Houtenkerk in Weesp to listen to the Monteverdi Kamerkoor and guitarist Wiek Hijmans. In Palestrina Electrified, they show how the work of the famous Renaissance composer resonates in contemporary choral music.

Palestrina Electrified

Dates

Sat 28 Nov20:15 - 21:45

Location

Van Houtenkerk, Oudegracht 69, 1381 XX Weesp

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Electric guitar as a full-fledged musical partner of the choir

Old and new music are placed side by side, which creates surprising perspectives. For example, the eight-part Ave regina caelorum by Palestrina sounds alongside a piece of the same name by Gabriel Jackson, and you can hear how Rick Debie places the Sicut cervus in a new light in his award-winning composition Palestrina Revisited. The choir will also perform the premiere of a commissioned composition by Hijmans, which is also inspired by a motet by Palestrina. This way, you can experience that early music is not a closed repertoire, but a living source of inspiration for new compositions and performance practices.