The otherness of the self - artistic research
Since 2016 I am a very proud artistic research fellow at the Norwegian academy of music. In my research project I will look into the meaning of roles. What the role is and what it can become; what it does with me as a singer and performer when I…
Hallelujah in Belgium…?
We are all humans of this world, we all desire the same things: love, happiness and to be understood for who we are. It shouldn’t be so difficult to understand one another, especially not between two countries very close to each other, like for…
To sing music by dead people. And alive.
As a classical singer I perform lots and lots of music by dead people. One disadvantage though of singing the music by composers who stopped living is that you can’t ask them what they really meant, how they wanted it sound, who they wrote it for or…
When music is scary
On the occasion of Sunday’s concert with Paulus Barokk. I realise, when I write these posts, that many of them are about what I’ve learned and what I now have to re-learn in my own way. Always having been the good student, doing what the grown-ups…
It's not you. It's me. Really.
I’ve just read ”The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz. It’s the kind of book that I don’t usually read (just because…), but someone read a quote from it which really provoked me, so I had to read it. ”Never take anything personal”… Well, if that’s…
Ophelia - or (re)Fin(d)ing my voice
In the Autumn 2004 I was a very tired mother of a two-year old, and I had also just received my Konzertexamen-diploma. Twenty-eight years old with a long education behind me and a future I didn't know anything about. Lost and a bit sad. The musical…