Singing with BCS energises me. After a long day at work, sometimes the last thing I think I need is a two-and-a-half-hour rehearsal, but in fact, I leave feeling happier and with more energy than when I arrived. Thank you BCS for bringing the joy of singing back into my life.

The BCS is a great choir to sing with. My highlight so far was performing Freyhir in the Ardennes.

I'll never forget my emotion the first times I sang with the BCS on the stage of Salle Henry Le Boeuf, in front of the large audience in which I used to be sitting! 27 years later, wherever we perform, it is still a wonderful feeling to be part of such a marvelous choir!

Come sing with the very high level and well organized choir BCS: you'll feel welcome and forget all your troubles!

I was incredibly happy when I found the BCS as a choir that rehearses in English after arriving for my new Job in Brussels. I have been grateful for all the friends I made there ever since.

When joining BCS in 2011 I did not think I would meet the love of my life in the Alto section…we are now a happily married BCS couple.

As a new member of the Brussels Choral Society I had to prepare Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms for my first concert. I thought I could never manage to sing this strange and difficult music properly, as well as the pronunciation of Hebrew. But I did! In the end I thought it was the most beautiful music I ever sang. This was in 1986. In 2019 I shall sing the Chichester Psalms for the third time in a concert. I never left the Brussels Choral Society in 36 years. I may say BCS has changed my life!

I like every BCS rehearsal - we work with wonderful music and get energized and harmonized at the same time.

The Brussels Choral Society is a fascinating choir where enthusiastic singers of all ages and cultural backgrounds come together and create beautiful music.

It’s all about becoming part of a big sound … a unique experience. In music, history can and has to be performed for many happy and temporary revivals.

In BCS, you have the chance to build performances and interpretations that many professional choirs would envy. And what a fantastic sensation when you deliver them at BOZAR, Bonn, the Albert Hall…

I have sung with the BCS for half my life now. In a way it has become like a second family. And the many years have not altered the magic and emotion of joining voices to perform in concerts.

Singing with the BCS has offered me the opportunity to sing with professional ensembles, which until then had only been sporadic for me.

I find it fascinating to see so many people from different ages, backgrounds, nationalities and characters, uniting behind Verdi, Bach, Bernstein or Haendel, sharing what they have in common: their love of music…. Humankind at its best.

What I particularly cherish is the wide choice of music we sing and the wonderful mix of people who come from all four corners of the world. With a repertoire that ranges from the 17th till the 21st century, with the classical symphonic repertoire but also less obvious works like Schönberg or a capella pieces, rehearsals are never boring. A personal favourite will remain William Vaughn’s Sea Symphony.

Singing with the BCS has been the most wonderful experience. I will never forget the final chord of my first Messiah on the stage at Bozar!