dream images

Two women sitting on stairs with orange light streaks across their faces.

Duration: 60 minutes

Format: voice & piano (mezzo-soprano and piano)

Suitable for: concert halls, chamber music series, song recitals


Dream Images unfolds in a sound world where music does not describe, but evokes.

With Dream Images, mezzo-soprano Herlinde Van de Straete and pianist Babette Craens explore a sound world in which music and imagination are closely intertwined.

The program brings together songs and solo piano works that evoke images rather than describe them: like fragments of a dream that appear and dissolve.

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At its core are the Vier Lieder op. 4 by Alban Berg, alongside works by George Crumb. Moving between voice and piano, the program unfolds as a continuous interplay between text and sound.

Shifting between clarity and ambiguity, Dream Images creates a space in which listeners are invited to form their own inner landscapes.


Lacunes

Two women with long blonde hair standing in a dark, wooded forest with blurred motion, suggesting movement or windy conditions.

Duration: 60 minutes

Format: voice & piano (soprano and piano)

Suitable for: concert halls, chamber music series, song recitals


Lacunes explores what is left unsaid — the silences, fractures, and spaces between sound and word.

Lacunes is a program created in collaboration with soprano Fleur Strijbos, exploring what is left unsaid: silences, fractures, and the spaces between words and sounds.

Rather than avoiding these gaps, the music brings them into focus, treating absence as a place of tension, anticipation, and imagination.

The repertoire moves between familiar and lesser-known works, featuring music by August De Boeck, Piet Swerts, and contemporary Belgian composers including Alain Craens and Noah Senden.

Lacunes unfolds in fragments: moments that emerge and dissolve - inviting the listener to inhabit what lies in between.