At 30, Nobuyuki Tsujii, Japanese, plays in the big leagues. Blind at birth, he only learned music by ear. At the green garden party, in front of Hulencourt’s magnificent new greenhouse, this outstanding pianist will give a grand recital dedicated to Beethoven, whose grandfather, Lodewijk, we sometimes forget was… Belgian!

30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance

A phenomenon: 12 years old, of rare maturity, pianist Alexandra Dovgan shines. Discovered in Russia last summer, this young star is lighting up the musical world: Theatre of the Champs-Elysees, Konzertgebouw in Amsterdam, tours in Japan and the USA. Alexandra Dovgan will play the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto N1 with the Hulencourt Orchestra directed by Palmo Venneri. Alexander Kniazev, worthy successor of Rostropovich, will give us an amazing interpretation of the concerto for violoncello and orchestra of J.A.De Zeegant!

30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance

Head of State between 2007 and 2012, Nicolas Sarkozy will present his book “Passions” at Hulencourt, in which he discusses his political journey, which began with a meeting of the RPR in Nice in 1975, followed by a meeting at Matignon with the Prime Minister at the time, Jacques Chirac. The former president also speaks at length about his private life, his second wife Cécilia who told him of “her desire to divorce” on the day of the televised debate between two stages of the presidential elections of 2007, and his first encounter with Carla Bruni, “the most important person in his life”.

110€

When the legendary Janoska Ensemble “Revolution” is not an ordinary title for a musical program. But can we really apply the epithet of “ordinary” to a formation as creative as the Janoska Ensemble? Starting with the family history, obviously endowed with unusual musical genes: for the Janoska family, their musical tradition has been passed down from father to son for 150 years! They pay tribute to the Beatles with versions of timeless hits such as “Let It Be” and “Yesterday”, as well as works by Tchaikovsky and Bach.

30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance

On 18 February 1923, when the wall of the burial chamber was opened and the intact tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun was discovered, there were about 15 personalities present, including Prince Leopold and, of course, Jean Capart. Queen Elisabeth was the guest of honour and she officially inaugurated the opening of the burial chamber. Mr. Jean-Michel Bruffaerts will present unpublished documents and photos! Princess Esmeralda of Belgium will be present for this exceptional event in Hulencourt.

110€

Upset by the death of his friend Nicolas Rubinstein in 1881, Tchaikovsky composed the first great Russian piece for a piano trio and dedicated it to the memory of a great artist. Twelve years later, following announcement of the death Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov began composing another trio, as monumental and romantic as the one who inspired him and offering the same dedication. Succession of singing virtuosos, almost dancing, with Plamena Mangova, Alexander Kniazev and Dmitry Makhtin.

The profits will be devoted to the defence of the environment within the framework of the International Foundation of Lions CLubs (LCIF).

30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance

Spanish music of the 17^th century, the “Tonos Humanos” were very popular songs at that time and talk about life and love. They can be happy, melancholic or satirical. On the program is composer José Marin, harp and guitar player. He was committed as a tenor in the royal chapel in Madrid and, at the same time, he was a priest, a thief and … a murderer! Hannelore Devaere, Philippe Malfeyt and Francisco Javier Manalich will illustrate all facets of this turbulent life in the concert.

30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance

Spanish music of the 17^th century, the “Tonos Humanos” were very popular songs at that time and talk about life and love. They can be happy, melancholic or satirical. On the program is composer José Marin, harp and guitar player. He was committed as a tenor in the royal chapel in Madrid and, at the same time, he was a priest, a thief and … a murderer! Hannelore Devaere, Philippe Malfeyt and Francisco Javier Manalich will illustrate all facets of this turbulent life in the concert.

30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance

With an international industrial background and proud to be the CEO of Solvay, a group with 155 years of history, Ilham Kadri will share her work philosophy and her vision of success. She will address the challenges and opportunities she has faced, in a rapidly changing society and a volatile geopolitical and economic environment. She will also reveal to us how to forge the fundamental values of common success and respond to the societal and environmental challenges of our modern societies through innovation.

110€

Within the buildings of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, the seventeenth-century Counter-Reform was the catalyst for music to become the tool that turned religious doctrine and commandments into a spiritual journey. As a result, the polyphonic tradition finally gave way to monody! With this double concert, Elisabeth Hetherington and David Mackor want to take the listener on a dramatic journey through the eyes of those who are closest to Jesus: The Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene and the Apostles.

30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance

Within the buildings of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, the seventeenth-century Counter-Reform was the catalyst for music to become the tool that turned religious doctrine and commandments into a spiritual journey. As a result, the polyphonic tradition finally gave way to monody! With this double concert, Elisabeth Hetherington and David Mackor want to take the listener on a dramatic journey through the eyes of those who are closest to Jesus: The Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene and the Apostles.

30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance

Have you ever wondered what ancient Romania sounded like? The Anton Pann Ensemble takes advantage of Europalia Romania in Hulencourt to present the wonderful music of 17^th century Ottoman composer Dimitrie Cantemir. Their performance offers a new take on these traditional sounds, a contemporary spotlight on this Baroque repertoire. Performing in the courtyard of Romanian and Boyard princes, they also play folk melodies.

30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance

The recent crisis will certainly change the behaviour of central banks for the long term. Before the crisis, they controlled interest rates in the very short term and made sure to remain credible in case of inflationary shocks by reacting very quickly. Since the crisis, they have pursued unconventional policies, which now requires that they provide solutions to problems that did not exist before the crisis. Jean-Claude Trichet will share his views with us on crisis-resolution mechanisms and on economic news.

110€

A singer with a voice so pure, the Israeli-American artist NOA (Achinoam Nini) pays tribute to the famous German composer of the 18th century, Johan Sebastien Bach! She revisits 12 instrumental pieces of the composer by adding original texts in English and Hebrew. With her long-time collaborator, Gil Dor and with Or Lubianiker, Noa breaks the barriers of language to bridge the gap between respect and joy, courage and hope. Noa made her divine voice a passport to the world.

30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance

Daniel Petrica Ciobanu is considered one of the most promising young pianists of his generation. His outgoing personality and creativity make him a performer of rare depth and refinement. A Yamaha Music Foundation Europe Fellow and Rotary’s Young Musician of the Year, he has performed with renowned pianist Lang Lang at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance

In Tootsology, Antonio Serrano, harmonicist and important ambassador of the best Spanish jazz, pays tribute to Toots, and has risen to the challenge of revisiting his entire career from the 1950s to the present. To do this, he had to carefully select the most representative themes of each era, a difficult task because of the long and prolific career of the great Toots Thielemans! Meanwhile, listening to his work and transcribing these old recordings was a very rewarding experience.

30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance

More than just an impersonator, Olivier Laurent is a genius performer, an innately talented artist who set himself the goal of reviving the songs of Jacques Brel and who burns with passion on stage as though his life depended on it.

The newspaper “Le Figaro” has gone so far as to refer to reincarnation. With the feel of a musical journey played a hundred times or more, and before an audience alternating between tears, laughter and ecstasy, it is through his voice, his fervour, his sense of irony and his tenderness that the artist pays this most fitting of tributes to the great Jacques Brel.

25€ – Seniors: 18€ – Students: 15€ – Kids under 6: Free

This classical music concert is being organised by Bozar Next Generation and Hulencourt Festival. The event’s location is the magnificent Henry Le Boeuf Hall of the Brussels Centre for Fine Arts. This year, Evelyne Berezovski and Stefan Tarara will be performing piano concerto N2 by Belgian composer J.A.De Zeegant and the Shostakovich violin concerto N1 conducted by Palmo Venneri.

This second instalment continues wordlessly where the first left off, focusing instead on pure associations and on a world infinite in its richness, a world that remains true and which enables each individual listener to create their own universe. This work involved condensing the last songs, op. 62, op. 67, op 85 and op. 102, showing that, over and above his prodigious skill as a pianist, Amir Katz remains someone who is capable of pushing the boundaries of music through his latest creations.

25€ – Kids under 6: Free

Dinner, discussion and debate: the Polar Pod, a project first conceived by Jean-Louis Etienne in partnership with the organisation Ship ST will, for more than two years, drift along the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (24,000 km long, 2,000 km wide, with a flow of 150 million m3/sec) at an average speed of 0.5 knots. This “underwater space station”, first thought of in 2013, was recently granted support by the French government at the One Planet Summit held on 12th December in Paris.

100€

The Bosnian lutenist Edin Karamazov first shot to fame accompanying Sting and Andreas Scholl – now he’s coming to Hulencourt for a solo performance. Listening to Edin Karamazov, this remarkably talented lutanist, is to explore the roads less travelled, taking the time to lose yourself in the labyrinth created by the strings of this magical instrument.

25€ – Seniors: 18€ – Students: 15€ – Kids under 6: Free

Pianist Amir Katz gives an exceptional recital of Mendelssohn. The forty eight strong collection of Lieder ohne Worte is teeming with remarkable pieces. The Israeli pianist Amir Katz has carefully selected a number of these, all of which are skilfully rendered. For this first concert, Katz selected from Songs without words op. 19b, op. 30, op. 38 and op. 53. The virtuoso skill of Amir Katz, a performer with a remarkable ability to retain a clear sense of purity of line as well as extraordinary clarity from start to finish, is not to be missed.

25€ – Kids under 6: Free

The remarkable Gjorgji Cincievski, Marketa Janouskova & Nadia Debono tackle a brand new transcript, a recreation of J.-S Bach’s baroque masterpiece for harpsichord adapted for violin, viola and double-bass. This performance is a demonstration of the skill, the depth, the harmony and the infinite variations of chamber music, a fascinating reworking that reminds us of the physical proximity between the plucked strings of the harpsichord and classical stringed instruments.

25€ – Kids under 6: Free

Don’t miss the chance to hear Fazil measure himself against the incredibly strict demands of Beethoven as he tackles his subito piano runs, the rising crescendos falling back to pianissimo that the master was known for. Pianists are only human, however, striving to seek their own truth while letting their sense of joy shine through in their music. Watching the Turkish virtuoso, a remarkably committed artist for whom every performance seems to be a matter of life and death, is always an intense experience. An ever-productive composer, his work, typified by a real sense of sincerity, always has a profound impact on his audiences.

25€ – Kids under 6: Free

Dinner, discussion and debate: The earth shook in Kurdistan. Are we witnessing the sun setting on the American empire and the retreat of the West? We now see the five kings of fallen empires – Persian, Ottoman, Chinese, Russian, Arabic – seeking to reclaim their former glory. How Trump is in the process of burying, not the America of Obama, but the America of Virgil. What were the Iranians thinking when they renamed what was formerly Persia in 1935, giving it a Nazi name instead? Why the real trap is that of Herodotus, and not that of Thucydides. Forty years after Barbarism with a human face, writer and philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy presents his take on contemporary barbarism.

130€

This concert features our Hulencourt Symphony Orchestra, the conductor Jacques Attali, violinist Stefan Tarara and pianist Filippo Gorini. The Foundation was set up to provide assistance to those founding income-generating businesses across 40 countries through the international NGO Positive Planet and the French NGO Positive Planet France. The work of the foundation also includes supporting what is known as the positive economy in any way possible through Positive Economy Advocacy, a group responsible for organising a whole host of internationally-renowned events including the Positive Economy Forum, which has been held in Le Havre and in San Patrignano in Italy. This concert promises to be an unforgettable event, with music by Verdi (Luisa Miller Overture), Sibelius (Violin Concerto OP.47) and Beethoven (Piano Concerto « Empereur »).

40€

Featuring the music of William Walton, Astor Piazzolla, Giulio Regondi and Francisco Tarrega, played by the young Australian guitarist Stephanie Jones, one of the most promising breakthrough artists of her generation. A devotee of music in general, she began her studies on piano, moving onto the violin, the viola, the saxophone and the flute before finally settling on the classical guitar. Stephanie Jones is currently studying in Germany under the tutelage of Thomas Müller-Pering at the prestigious Franz Liszt University of Music.

25€ – Kids under 6: Free

Breathing new life into the genre of parlour music and reviving a charming repertoire, the Janoska Ensemble are a traditional group in the Austro-Hungarian sense of the term. Their repertoire has been revamped through a number of new arrangements, some rather jazzy, that the group themselves have been working on. A performance not to be missed.

Ondrej Janoska, violin
Roman Janoska, violin
František Janoska, piano
Julius Darvas, double-bass  

25€ – Seniors: 18€ – Students: 15€ – Kids under 6: Free

Dinner, discussion and debate: in the form of a list of lessons (being president, making decisions, travelling, coping with pressure, etc.), François Hollande gives his account of what it’s like being in power, both in France and internationally. The former President of France looks back on his time in power, discussing the difficulties the country went through as well as the major global and European challenges of the period through its main players: Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama.

150€

Actor, pianist, legend. All three of these aspects came together in the life of an individual renowned for his devotion to artistic excellence. Arturo Toscanini, celebrated here on piano by Giovanni Bellucci, is hailed as one of the ten greatest virtuoso performers of all time, exploring the work of Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Schubert and Beethoven to name just a few of the major triumphs from the work of the maestro that was Toscanini. Francis Huster gives a passionate performance as the celebrated conductor.

25€ – Seniors: 18€ – Students: 15€ – Kids under 6: Free

The language, identity, culture and fortitude of the people of Corsica is encapsulated in Barbara Furtuna, a group who have been promoting all of this over the course of a career spanning more than fifteen years. It is with a new line-up, however, that Barbara Furtuna will be performing at the Ad Lucem concert alongside Belem, a duo made up of Didier Laloy on diatonic accordion and Kathy Adam on cello. These two outgoing, atypical musicians have been performing together for twenty five years, playing a style of music that is both subtle and surprising and where notes and pauses are elegantly blended together with the most complex of rhythms.

25€ – Kids under 6: Free

With support coming in particular from Alfred Brendel, with whom he studied, Filippo Gorini made the decision to tackle on one of the most complex pieces within the piano repertoire, the Diabelli Variations. Gorini has been able to perfect this set of variations, having played the music many times, including perhaps most notably at the Beethoven Competition, where he was the unanimous winner. Indeed, it was at The Beethoven House in Bonn where he recorded this first opus, the beginning of an extremely promising recording career.

25€ – Kids under 6: Free

As a tribute to Clara Haskil and Arthur Grumiaux, Palmo Venneri and Marketa Janouskova will play the full programme from the 1957 Besançon recital. Clara and Arthur were keen to place particular emphasis on the concept of balance, combining this with a sense of grace, humility and freshness. The famous 1957 Besançon recital, which featured music composed by Beethoven and Mozart, provided tangible evidence of the undying elegance of these two masters and the refinement with which they were able to marry intelligence and emotion through their fingers.

Free with email booking

Originally from Tokan in Turkey, Ferhan & Ferzan Önder are twin sisters who embody the beauty of the East. Written for two pianos and piano four hands, their programme explores the mystery of the Russian repertoire, transporting their audiences to the world of Igor Stravinsky and the shimmering sounds of The Rite of Spring and across the steppes of Central Asia, before stopping over in the picturesque surroundings of the Turkey of their compatriot Fazil Say, whose work they are known for faithfully reproducing.

Concert in collaboration with LICF for diabetes research.

60€ – Kids under 6: Free

With a style combining simplicity and versatility, Ian Bostridge, accompanied by the pianist Julius Drake, is sure to delight scholars and connoisseurs of German Romanticism. Written in the form of a historical investigation, this extremely well-researched study will provide specialists with an opportunity to deepen their knowledge while introducing newcomers to Schubert’s work to this unique piece. The English translation has already been a resounding success in the United Kingdom.

25€ – Seniors: 18€ – Students: 15€ – Kids under 6: Free