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We are happy to welcome you, singer or instrumentalist, at the HBG.

Each year there are six cantatas and two concerts, so you can choose.

You can subscribe to each project separately. For concerts we have six to eight rehearsals (Friday evenings), for cantatas the orchestra rehearses once, the choir usually twice and for both there is the dress rehearsal.

For more information, please email to

Kees Schram: schram.kees@gmail.com (choir)

Esther Schermer: estherschermer@me.com (orchestra)

 A choir-audition, what's to be expected?

Everyone who likes to participate in the HBG choir has to audition, do a voice test. For  you as well as for us it is important to establish whether your ability is adequate for our choir. Also we need to know what voice you have and whether it fits the choral sound we are aiming for.

The voice test will be taken with our conductor Gilles Michels. Right afterwards we will let you know whether we will welcome you.

The voice test includes:

• small exercises to establish your reach and flexibility; also to estimate how will you fit in with our sopranos, altos, tenors or basses;
•  a listening exercise in order to test your theoretical knowledge and understanding of intervals; can you discriminate them, sing perfectly in tune, can you point out the key tone hearing a chord on the piano?
• a simple sight-reading test in order to measure your ability to read a score, to understand it and put notes to it.

If you were a HBG-singer a long time ago and would like to sing with us again, you might well be asked to do a voice test so we can hear how your voice has developed.

Any questions? Send an email to Kees Schram or call him on: 070 3242459