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Komorebi Consort

Three-hundred years ago, in a city not so far away…

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28/08/2026

We LOVE collabs with instrument makers🤩😍. This month, we worked with .t.visser whose brand new viola was played in concert for the first time before thousands of listeners. SWIPE ➡️ to continue…

Based on a 1688 Hendrik Jacobs (Kunstmuseum Den Haag), the viola “shows Jacobs’s unique construction feature with a single piece of linen glued on either side of the ribs”. SWIPE ➡️

Annelie, in her own words, “reconstructed the viola without a mould and with an archaic heel (or through-neck)” .➡️ (pretty scroll incoming…)

Voila! What lovely work!!➡️

got some beautiful sounds out of the instrument for the concert in Aarschot and we were so honoured! From the famous viola part of Bach’s take on Pergolesi to our very own rendition of “Zerfließe, meine Herze” with the viola as an oboe da caccia, the instrument moved everyone with its unique timbre. ➡️

Thank you Annelie, and we look forward to evolving with your instruments! ➡️

Some of you might remember our concerts with the now famous green harpsichord🟩 with the 16’ register (stay tuned for a 📽️ about our keyboards), fresh out of the Instrumentbuilding HoGent workshop after Bas Neelen’s master’s. Our search for the colours of the past always begin with the instruments – we’re excited to share this process with you and hear your thoughts!!!

25/08/2026

One dream has been fulfilled. Since the beginning, we’ve wanted to perform with a big German organ and in a gallery, just as it was done in Bach’s time.

“Was frag ich nach der Welt?”: what do we ask of the world, its past, and its future? We hope that this concert connected the dots between 1724, 1945, and 2026 as we raised a candle to the nameless victims of all wars.

We thank once again the Wondelgem community, Cathorpi vzw, our supporters, and the Embassy of Japan in Belgium for helping us make this event a reality.

We even have a livestream link this time: https://www.youtube.com/live/rRPoruHHHgk?is=7QlbJXRqkRDr3lc4

23/08/2026

What a beautiful evening this was! Big thanks to everyone who made this possible!

20/08/2026

Our correspondent (and flautist) is reporting from INSIDE an organ!! Don’t miss our concert on the 22nd in Wondelgem!!

18/08/2026

Four more days until our concert in Wondelgem with this magnificent organ and our soloists .thomas and !! will be on flute, accompanied by on organ and .isaji on harpsichord. (Except: J.C. Bach: Ach, dass ich Wassers gnug hätte) BOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE: https://luma.com/aphzhxg5

17/08/2026

15 Aug ‘26: A totally dark city, lit only by candles, and two hours of spirited music for thousands of people – what more could we have asked for?
Stay tuned for event reports, and scroll till the end for a very special guest…!

Pictures by Malou Van den Heuvel

09/08/2026

On 22 August, we present our programme “Like Smoke and shadows…” in remembrance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Music by Bruhns and the Bach family. There’s still tickets left: book them now through https://luma.com/aphzhxg5

06/08/2026

Today marks two anniversaries: J.S. Bach led the first performance of his cantata “Was frag ich nach der Welt” exactly 302 years ago, and, 81 years ago, Hiroshima became the first city to vanish into smoke and shadows beneath an atomic bomb. The cantata invites us to look beyond our transient lives in a world of fragile falsehoods. Whatever glory war—or any human endeavour—may claim is but a passing illusion, while its consequences remind us that our existence may be cut short in an instant. “Wretched world!”, the text exclaims. Bach and his contemporaries, including the poet Balthasar Kindermann, who wrote the cantata’s text, knew well the fragility of life in a society left desolate by the Thirty Years’ War.

Today, my thoughts also turn to distant family members who perished in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The little we know of them has made me realise how countless lives—their ambitions, dreams, and quiet duties—were extinguished, leaving scarcely a trace behind. The smoke has long since dispersed, yet their shadows endure for those willing to look closely enough. Will we, too, allow these sombre lessons to fade? Or can music carry them more deeply into our souls?

Rehearsal fragment from the aria “Betörte Welt, Betörte Welt”, which you’ll be able to hear during our concert “Like smoke and Shadows…” on the 22nd of August in the St. Catharinakerk of Wondelgem (Ghent), or in the O.L.V. church of Aarschot on the night of the 15th during St Rochus candle night. We hope to see you there.

15/02/2026

Very happy to share that Komorebi Consort won the Audience prize at the FestiVita concours!

While we're preparing to play at the Banquet later today, I would like to share this lovely picture that Malou Van den Heuvel took yesterday after our show.

Thanks to everyone who voted for us! You were the best audience ❤️

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