Summer School Sunday July 6
workshops – final presentation – sing along workshop – closing concert
Programme for the day (subject to change)
09.30 am Joint sing-along -pp
10.15 am Workshop -pp
12.15 p.m. Break
13:15 Final presentation workshop*
13.45 h Break
14:00 Workshop Vocal Painting Opera -pp
15:45 Break
16.00 Final concert The Big Sing (to be announced)
– * = free entrance
– pp = included in The Big Sing Summer School passe-partout
Kings Return will lead the warm-up on Sunday at 9.30am, followed by a choice of two two-hour workshops:
– Kings Return (gospel)
– Women’s Chamber Choir Hera and Maze Voices led by Hans Cass (pop)
NB: when ordering your passe-partout, places for the the Saturday and Sunday workshops will be allocated in February when the content of these programmes has been finalised.
Then you can let us know which workshops you prefer. We will e-mail you a web form to fill in.
Around 1 p.m., these workshoppers will also perform during a final presentation. The Vocal Painting Opera workshop will follow at 2 pm. Finally, at 4 pm, there will be The Big Sing closing concert.
Questions? Check FAQ or mail The Big Sing!
Read more about The Big Sing Summer School passe-partout!
The Kings Return (USA)
The dynamic four-member vocal group Kings Return creates a diverse but highly cohesive a cappella sound. Their R&B is interwoven with swinging jazz, soulful bursts of gospel and bright hints of pop – all built on a solid, classical foundation.
Womens’s Chamber Choir Hera
The passion for singing challenging music at a high level is what unites the singers of Women’s Chamber Choir Hera. Founded in 2019 by conductor Raghna Wissink, the ensemble has performed interesting, polyphonic, classical and contemporary a cappella repertoire at a very advanced level from the start.
Maze Voices
A groovy, innovative XL vocal group with mixed voices, ages and backgrounds led by choral leadership guru Merel Martens.
MAZE Voices is an a cappella family with 22 talented singers. Their innovative style and pop-rock energy splashes off the stage and is infectious!
Hans Cassa
Hans is a singer, musician, arranger, translator and conductor with years of epxerience, most of it in higher education. He is known for inspiring vocakl and choral workshops based on the simple belief that singing in a group is a matter of give and take. Giving with your voice and taking with your ears, because they cannot do without each other.
Vocal Painting Opera
Blank Slate by Irish composer Seán Doherty is an interactive choral opera learned through vocal painting, a singing method in which the conductor uses gestures to guide a choir in creating dynamic, spontaneous and improvised vocal expressions. In this way, everyone participates directly in both the creation of the music and the action on stage.
This technique is like a form of live musical ‘painting’ using the human voice as the primary instrument. This has been common before in an improvisational context, but at The Big Sing it will be used for the very first time in the dramatic context of a new opera Blank Slate, a result of an international collaboration between composer and experts Merel Martens (Netherlands) and Peder Karlsson (Sweden), Stephan Lutermann and Lars Scheibner (CHOREOS ensemble, Germany).
