In June 2023, Chamber Choir JIP will celebrate its 10th anniversary!

To mark this beautiful anniversary, we will make JIP20 something extra special: in collaboration with composers and musicians, we will perform a programme consisting entirely of new music, written especially for JIP. We will perform this at the Day of the Composer and the Gaudeamus Festival, among others.

For this anniversary project, Chamber Choir JIP asked five composers to write a work inspired by the choristers' search for perspective, connection and a sense of being at home in the turbulent world we live in. New works that are about the singers themselves, about what moves them, what our individual strengths are as human beings and where we find each other. This results in concerts in which the choir collaborates with five soloists (Iranian and Spanish vocals, trumpet, electronics, piano and percussion), under the title But the sun is still up.

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Oene van Geel wrote a work for choir, piano, trumpet and vocal soloists, merging individual perspectives and Iranian influences into a composition about wonder and love for the world and each other. Choral composer Gerard Beljon conducted a unique artistic investigation, asking all individual choir members to submit their most beautiful melodies and then fusing them into a moving whole. In addition, three up-and-coming talents, Maripepa Contreras, Setareh Nafisi and Antonio Moreno Glazkov, each wrote a choral work expressing different perspectives on today's world. In this, the uprisings in Iran, loneliness and connectedness of the individual and belonging play a leading role.

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