Flanders Festival
For more than five decades, Flanders Festival has been promoting classical and contemporary music to young and old alike. Eight festivals (Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Ghent, Kortrijk, Leuven, Mechelen and Tongeren) contribute to the strengthening of Flanders’ cultural influence. The programme consists of a full repertoire, with music from the Middle Ages to today and excursions into the realm of world music. All together more than 550 annual performances and educational projects, for many thousands of local and foreign spectators: a huge artistic, touristic and economic impulse!
As its youngest member, The Festival of Flanders Kortrijk adds to the family’s charisma. The first edition was already looking very promising! Over 2,200 visitors have enjoyed classical and contemporary concerts, sound art and educational projects.
Flanders Festival Kortrijk
Flanders Festival Kortrijk is the music festival of southern West Flanders. An attractive project with a programme that transcends the boundaries of many genres, from classical to contemporary, from world music to sound art. Music is the engine of the festival, yet cross-fertilizations with other disciplines are not excluded.
The programme includes fresh combinations of both old and modern musical instruments, compositions that tell stories or spontaneous mixes of classical and contemporary within the same programme.
Flanders Festival Kortrijk has three main pillars:
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Concerts & performances
FFK thinks classical and inclusive. The programme starts from respect for tradition, but confronts it with high-quality contemporary music. Every edition is a balancing act between purely classical works, mixed programs and outspoken contemporary work. And the performers? From them we expect nothing less than captivating listening experiences. -
Klinkende Stad
“Kortrijk’s Klinkende Stad is establishing a reputation for itself as one of Europe’s premier sound art festivals.” headlined the international magazine The Wire in November 2008. FFK continues the tradition of the former Happy New Ears festival: international sound art in the inner city of Kortrijk. "Klinkende Stad" can rightfully call itself the “Watou of sound art”. -
Educational projects
The festival is framed by a series of educational activities for both children and adults. Introductions, lectures, workshops and master classes are developed in cooperation with Matrix from Leuven, Cultuurcentrum Kortrijk, Casa Blanca vzw, Conservatorium and Jeugd & Muziek Kortrijk.
FFK maintains excellent relationships with artists and will support several of them in the creation of new work.