Benoît De Leersnyder has skilfully put together a varied programme featuring opera, operetta, art songs, chansons and musical theatre, performed by vocal students from KASK & Conservatorium. We couldn’t have imagined a more fitting opening to our festival.

Au Bain MIRY is a summer music festival featuring concerts by up-and-coming talent from KASK & Conservatorium during the Gentse Feesten. The concerts are free for students and staff of KASK & Conservatorium. We want to make the concerts accessible to everyone. For those who wish to contribute, we operate a Pay What You Can system: you choose how much to contribute – come for free or choose between a small, standard or support contribution.

Benoît De Leersnyder has skilfully put together a varied programme featuring opera, operetta, art songs, chansons and musical theatre, performed by vocal students from KASK & Conservatorium. We couldn’t have imagined a more fitting opening to our festival.

Au Bain MIRY is a summer music festival featuring concerts by up-and-coming talent from KASK & Conservatorium during the Gentse Feesten. The concerts are free for students and staff of KASK & Conservatorium. We want to make the concerts accessible to everyone. For those who wish to contribute, we operate a Pay What You Can system: you choose how much to contribute – come for free or choose between a small, standard or support contribution.

The French composer Olivier Messiaen is known for his great fondness for birdsong and his strong Catholic faith. Both interests feature prominently throughout his entire body of work. There are no bird sounds in Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus, but, as the title suggests, he sets to music various aspects of the birth of Jesus in twenty meditations. This grand and imposing work, lasting over two hours, is right up pianist Bert Lasseel’s street.

Au Bain MIRY is a summer music festival featuring concerts by up-and-coming talent from KASK & Conservatorium during the Gentse Feesten. The concerts are free for students and staff of KASK & Conservatorium. We want to make the concerts accessible to everyone. For those who wish to contribute, we operate a Pay What You Can system: you choose how much to contribute – come for free or choose between a small, standard or support contribution.

Up-and-coming talent Nele Vernaillen was highlighted this year as one of Klara’s “Twenty-Somethings”. During a Toots session, she introduced her new band, Alver, to the wider public. Vernaillen’s flute lends the group a silvery glow – a quality Alver shares with the fish of the same name. Together, the musicians create soundscapes that elevate the act of getting lost once again to a romantic concept. Alver grooves, muses, dances and comforts, inviting you to do the same.

Au Bain MIRY is a summer music festival featuring concerts by up-and-coming talent from KASK & Conservatorium during the Gentse Feesten. The concerts are free for students and staff of KASK & Conservatorium. We want to make the concerts accessible to everyone. For those who wish to contribute, we operate a Pay What You Can system: you choose how much to contribute – come for free or choose between a small, standard or support contribution.

Ah, summer! Peak season for parasol hire firms, sun cream manufacturers and owners of outdoor swimming pools, but also for anything that makes you feel a bit ticklish. From bees in the open air to butterflies in the stomach, sister and brother Marjolein and Elewout Acke sing the praises of insects and other ticklish things in a programme about nature and romance. They gather songs from all corners of music history and weave them into a tittilating – or rather: tickling! – concert for the whole family. 

Au Bain MIRY is a summer music festival featring concerts by up-and-coming talent from KASK & Conservatorium during the Gentse Feesten. The concerts are free for students and staff of KASK & Conservatorium. We want to make the concerts accessible to everyone. For those who wish to contribute, we operate a Pay What You Can system: you choose how much to contribute – come for free or choose between a small, standard or support contribution.