Early Music
Sigrid T'Hooft masterclass
From Monday 24 to Wednesday 26 October, from 3.30 to 5.30 pm, Sigrid T'Hooft will work on baroque dances with the students of the Early Music Department. Instrumental ensembles are formed by the chamber music class to illustrate these master classes.
October 24 2022 15:30 > October 26 2022 17:30
Monday 24 April
Minuet and Passe-pied I Bourrée and Rigaudon I Courante
Tuesday 25 April
Chaconne and/or Passacaglia I Sarabande I Loure and Entrée grave
Wednesday 26 April
Allemande I Gavotte I Gigue and Forlane
A native of Ghent (Belgium) Sigrid T'Hooft worked after Musicology studies as an editor of classical music programs at Flemish radio station Klara, while simultaneously, starting in the early 90ies, making a name as a choreographer and opera stage-director specialised in the Historical Informed Performance practice.
With the staging of Händel's Radamisto in 2009 at the Baden State Theatre Karlsruhe, her breakthrough as stage-director and her personal theaterlanguage has been known and appreciated on the international stage.
In the following years Sigrid T'Hooft staged at the Goethe Theater Bad Lauchstädt, (Germany) the Drottningholm Theatre (Sweden), the Opera Theatre Perm (Rusland) , Trondelag Teater Trondheim (Norway) and others.
She was invited by the Paris Opera ensemble Opera Fuoco and the Händel Festival Göttingen, cooperates since 2011 regulary with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and has worked with leading musical directors in the field of early music such as Peter Van Heyghen, Reinhard Goebel, Andrew Parrott, Mark Tatlow, Laurence Cummings , Sigiswald Kuijken and many others.
In the last 15 years she choreographed several dance performances with her baroque dance company Corpo Barocco, staged more than 25 operas, as well as numerous concerts "mise-en-geste".
In her repertoire one can find not only many rediscoveries of long forgotten works from the 17th & 18th century, but also the established repertoire of G. F. Handel, W. A. Mozart, J. Haydn is represented.
Her directing recently extended to romantic works (A. Borodin) and the spoken theater (A.V. Kotzebue).
Sigrid T'Hooft taught Period Acting at the Music Conservatories of Leipzig and The Hague, historical dance in Trossingen, is a well regarded speaker on International conferences, and is invited as a guest-teacher in numerous International Institutions.
Hervé Douchy coordination
Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles
Site Chêne I Auditorium Jospeh Jongen
Rue du Chêne 17 - 1000 Bruxelles
BELGIQUE
As part of the research colloquium La musique française et la danse de Louis XIV à Louis XVI