Collegium Musicum Catharina | Satie

Performers

Collegium Musicum Catharina

• Sunta Overvliet, soprano
• Amber Mertens, piano
• Ruud Huijbregts, organ
• Conductor: Arjan van Baest

Program

Portrait of Eric Satie (1866 – 1925)

• Sonnerie pour reveille le bon gros Roi des Singes (1921)
• Vexations 1
• Trois mélodies (1887
  – Les ange
  – Elégie
  – Sylvie
• Gnossiennes (1889-90)
• Vexations 2
• Messe des Pauvres (1893-95)
  1. Kyrie Eleison
  2. Dixit Dominus
  3. Prière des Orgues
  4. Commune qui mundi nefas
  5. Chant Ecclésiastique
  6.  Prière pour les voyageurs et les marins en danger de mort, 
  à la très bonne et très auguste Vierge Marie, more de Jesus
  7.  Prière pour le salut de mon âme.
• Vexations 3
• Jack in the box (1899)
• You te veux (1897)
• La diva de l’empire (1904)
• Peccadilles importunes (1913)
  – To be jealous of his camarade who has a big head
  – He takes his tartine
  – Take advantage of this which he has the short legs to take his head
• Gymnopedies (1888)

About the performers

Soprano Sunta Overvliet discovered her passion for music at a young age. After years of singing in youth choirs, she studied Classical Singing at the Conservatory in Tilburg, where she discovered her love for opera. In 2021, she received the Giovanni Impellizzeris Bel Canto scholarship. In 2022, she graduated and settled in Antwerp. Sunta is active in the music world and regularly gives living room concerts.

Amber Mertens (2003) discovered her passion for classical music at the age of 6. In 2020, she was accepted for the bachelor’s degree in Classical Piano at the Fontys Academy of the Arts Conservatory in Tilburg. To date, she takes main subject lessons with Nicolas Callot.

Concert on the Philips Carillon

2:25 PM – 2:55 PM by City Carillonneur, Rosemarie Seuntiëns, admission free

Program

Music by French composers

1. Cesar Franck (1822-1890) – Le Mariage des roses (song)
2. Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) – Pavane opus 50
3. Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)
   Petit suites en quinze images:
   – Prélude- Ronde – Berceuse aux étoiles,
   – Romance – Quadrille – Sérénade sur l’eau,
   – La machine à coudre – l’adieu- Premier ball
4. César Franck – Pour moi sa main cueillait des roses (song)
5. César Franck – Prelude from Prélude, Fugue et Variation opus 18

Arrangements:
Gijsbert Kok: 1 + 4, Boudewijn Zwart: 2, Bob van Wely: 3, Jan Bezuijen: 5