On this page, one will see snapshots of encounters Frank Nuyts made with great people.

Still from 'Tongval' (Di Va Pensiero production summer 2012. Photo by Emilie Lauwers. Annelies van Huhfte & Lieselot Dewilde (sopranos)

Still from the 'Tongval' production in Di Va Pensiero project summer 2012
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Spectra Ensemble conducted by Filip Raté plays fragments of Middle East during the presentation of the Prize New Music 2011 Provence of Oost-Vlaanderen for FN. Ruth Rosenfeld and Thomas Bellinck sing.

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Photographs of the first performance of the '5th Symphony' for chamber ensemble in Festival van Vlaanderen Kortrijk.
Emanon plays, conducted by Raf De Keninck

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Photos from Ka-bal festival 2011 in Ghent:
Andreia, Milla & Darline (dance) and Elisa (pno) perform 'Murs Percé' by Becquart-Nuyts.

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Ruth Rosenfeld, Thomas Bellinck and some members of the Spectra Ensemble during the first rehearsals of Middle East

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Kurt Van der ELst took the official press photo for 'Middle East'
produced by production centre LOD (B).
FN with stage director Johan Dehollander

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Pete Harden, leader of Ensemble Klang (photo left) and percussionist Joey Marijs (photo right)
preparing themselves for 'Sacha' in Leuven for the Transit festival.

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On October 6th, the famous English artists 'Gilbert and George',
1st recipients of the
Magister Artium Gandesis,
receive the score 'Stained Staves' composed for this occasion by Frank Nuyts,
from the hands of Mr. Bert Hoogewijs, head of University College Ghent

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My wife Iris made the long trip to New Zealand,
in order to follow the Song Company on their tour
over there.Here a picture of Iris and Roland Peelman,
the conductor of this formidable vocal ensemble,
in Christchurch (NZ)

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Roland Peelman (with my wife Iris De Blaere)
and the singers of 'The Song Company (Australia)
are ready to record 'Old Airs' for a radio station in New Zealand

Philippe Blasband (with grey pullover), the writer of 'Middle East',
visits Ghent with his family during the summer of 2010

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'Voorwaarts Maart/ En Avant Mars' Festival 2010
Benjamin Van Esser, pianist of the 3rd & 6the Sonata, composer and computer wizzard,
readying himself to face the first performance of his 'A different machine' by Emanon Ensemble (right).
On the left comics authors Randall Casaer and Brecht Evens

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'Voorwaarts Maart/ En Avant Mars' Festival 2010
One live photo and one rehearsal photo of the street opera 'The marriage of Mira and Miro'
Kathy Van Roy (sop), Benoît Deleersnyder (bar)
Gwendolyn Desmet (vl), Niels Hap (clar), Marjolijn Gerets (bsn)

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'Voorwaarts Maart/ En Avant Mars 2010
Elisa Medenilla (left) and Andreia Rodriguez, Parwaneh Frei & Milla Virtanen (right)
performing 'Mur Percé' a choreography by Eddy Becquart

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'Voorwaarts Maart/ En Avant Mars 2010
Iris De Blaere & Dirk Opstaele performing 'Arabian Night' (left)
Musa Horti, conducted by Peter Dejans, sing 'The Accidental Martyr'

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Rehearsal pictures of Mur Percé (with many thanks to Hilde Van Keer of MA Zaventem)

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Elisa Medenilla, Benjamin Van Esser & Marc Masson
ready to perform Sonata 4, 6 & 5 in CC Maasmechelen

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The wider World of Water in The Fenix Festival 2009
in Antwerp (Iris de Blaere and Dirk Opstaele) (left)
The Song Company in Made@Festival Gent 2009 (right)

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Anthony Fiumara and Frank Nuyts during the rehearsal
of the former's 'Pont Ténèbres' in De Bijloke Ghent (left)
Frank Nuyts and Eddy Becquart on the roof (right)

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Recording sonatas 4, 5 & 6 in the Royal Conservatory of Brussels
in the summer of 2008 (with Yannick Willox recording engineer)

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World Exposition Zaragoza 2008
Dirk Opstaele (in costume) en iris de Blaere (with FN)
perform The Wider World of Water in the Belgian Pavilion

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Frank Nuyts conducting I Solisti del Vento (rehearsal) in
'...where the wind goes...' in De Singel Antwerp (left)
Frank Nuyts rehearsing Ensemble Leporello in Aida Vede
from the play 'Brittanis' at Stadschouwburg Rotterdam (right)

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Iris De Blaere and Frank Nuyts playing the solo parts in
'When The Tombs of Brass are Spent'
in The Royal Conservatory of Ghent in 1991

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