HERMESensemble

Over the past twenty years the Antwerp based HERMESensemble has been exploring and crossing the limits of contemporary music. From the ensemble studio in Het Kanaal (Antwerp) produc- tions are prepared for the most important national and international venues and festivals for contemporary art. Apart from creating contemporary repertoire and new music, the ensemble often works with video and multimedia, and prefers researching adventurous encounters with popular music, jazz and early music. 

Musician, teacher and researcher Karin de Fleyt plays the flute, alto flute, piccolo, bass flute, shakuhachi and bansuri. She performs the complete oeuvre for flute by Karlheinz Stockhausen, with whom she has worked for ten years. Many works created by Karin were shaped after intense cooperation with the composer. She gives masterclasses, lectures and lecture-recitals on the inter- pretation of new music for flute at variousnational and international conservatories and festivals for new music.

Viola player Marc Tooten has been the leader of several prestigious orchestras and chamber formations, including I Fiamminghi and the Beethoven Academy. At the moment he is soloist-in-chief with the Brabants orkest in Eindhoven (NL) and an internationally acclaimed chamber musician and soloist. He also teaches at the Maastricht Academy of Music and the Lemmens Institute Leuven.Karin and Marc have been core members of the HERMESensemble from the start in 2000.