The summer of 2008 is for Belgian conductor Ivan Meylemans (°1971) a ‘grand finale’ of a superb first season as a full-time conductor. He will be a guest at no less than three noteworthy European Music festivals. First he'll visit the Festival de Saintes with the Belgian wind ensemble I Solisti del Vento in a Dvorak-Brahms programme. Then he travels to the Festival Flâneries Musicales de Reims which invited him together with his Collegium Instrumentale Brugense to play the closure concert in a Haydn programme. And finally on to Switzerland to make his first appearance with the Luzern Festival Orchestra - Brass at the Lucerne Festival.

I Solisti del Vento
Location:  Saintes (F), Abbaye aux Dames
Dates: Monday 14 July 2008 – 20:00 

R. Strauss / arr. Köhler: Strauss Einmal Anders
R. Strauss: Suite in Bes opus 4
R. Strauss: Serenade in Es Major opus 7 (1881)
A. Dvorak: Serenade, op. 44, in D Minor

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I Solisti del Vento                
Festival de Saintes

Collegium Instrumentale Brugense & Capella Brugensis
Hilde Coppé (soprano) -  Lieve Maertens (alto) -  Ivan Goossens (tenor) - Jan Van der Crabben (bass)
Location:  Reims (F), Basilique St Rémi
Date: Sunday 3 August 2008 – 18:00  

J. Haydn: Salve Regina
J. Haynd: Mass in B flat Major (Kleine Orgelmesse)
J. Haydn: Mass in D Minor (Lord Nelson Mass)

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Collegium Instrumentale Brugense
Festival Flâneries Musicales de Reims

Lucerne Festival Orchestra Brass
Reinhold Friedrich (trumpet)
Location: Lucerne (CH)
Date: Sunday 17 August 2008 – 11:00

G. Gabrieli: “Sonata pian e forte” / “Canzon VIII” / “Canzon a tre” / “Canzon noni toni”
E. Denisow: Solo für Trompete / 6 Stücke f. Blechbläser u. Schlagzeug

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Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Lucerne Festival