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ABOUT OUR CHOIR

Timbre was founded in 2018 by Joni Jaeken and Nienke Winters, two former students at Sint-Hubertuscollege in Pelt, now better known as the WICO Junior Campus. Although Joni and Nienke were still very young themselves, school choir Timbre at Sint-Hubertuscollege immediately became a great success, as no fewer than 35 enthusiastic boys and girls came together during lunch breaks to rehearse! Over the years, we performed several concerts as a school choir, including a Christmas concert to benefit The Warmest Week and our first musical 't Is een zwaar bestaan. Since 2020, Joni and Nienke have graduated and, due to the reforms within WICO, the group has been spread across different campuses. Fortunately, that didn't stop us from continuing to rehearse outside of school hours, and so a few months later the “schoolchoir Timbre” was renamed “Youth Choir Timbre”! 

After a difficult start due to various lockdowns and corona measures, we finally performed our second musical Wij blijven voortbestaan  or to be troughly ranslated to: 'We'll continue to exist' in October 2021. With this title, we wanted to make it clear that we are far from finished! So followed our third musical Honey Honey, Here we go again in September 2022, and our fourth musical Our best summer in September 2023. That title in turn referred to our highlight of 2023: our trip to Rome! Timbre had already been in existence for 5 years, and that needed to be celebrated. After 3 summer camps in Belgium, we organized our first trip abroad. There we also took on a new challenge, as we participated for the first time in the international choir competition Musica Eterna Roma. The results exceeded all expectations, as we earned a gold diploma in the G2 “equal-voiced youth choirs” category! 

 

Youth Choir Timbre currently consists of 40 enthusiastic boys and girls between the ages of 11 and 19. This fall we are also performing a new musical, where everyone's talent can be addressed. Our current repertoire currently consists of typical musical classics, supplemented by polyphonic compositions. We are also very motivated to participate in various projects. We have participated in the Levensloop in Hasselt, Vlaanderen Zingt, the Christmas market in Antwerp and recently we participated for the first time in the EMJ: European Youth Music Festival. Here we performed at the Happening and won First Prize in the category 'equal-voiced youth choirs'! 

Would you like to join our group?

Are you between 12 and 18 years old? Do you like to sing and would you like to combine this with dance or theatre? Then we are looking for you! We rehearse every Saturday morning from 10.00 to 12.00 in the Hubertustheater in Pelt.

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