Every year, The European Music Festival for Young People takes place in the town of Neerpelt (Belgium). This annual festival brings alternating choral and instrumental festival editions. Youngsters from in and around Europe come to Neerpelt to make music and fraternise.

For this year’s edition, I was commissioned by the festival to compose one of the compulsory works for the competition portion of the festival. All the different choirs participating in the C category will sing my new piece, Slangen door de Stilte, set on text by Paul Van Ostaijen.

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