Youth Choir Furiale
For youngsters who dare to be loud
Arte Musicale often renews itself, and Furiale is a relatively young group composed of young members. Our youth choir unites people in secondary school and higher education, and is filled with enthusiastic souls bursting with musical energy.
In this mixed SATB choir, conductor Steve De Veirman pays specific attention to boys’ voices turning into men’s. The material is specifically chosen for boys to find their ways to become a true tenor or bass. Together with the enthusiastic girls, the boys are taught techniques to sing SATB pieces, adapted to the tessitura and the pitch of their younger voices.
This is why our music choices tend to be quite diverse: pop, gospel, spiritual, musical… Still, more classical pieces will definitely also find a place at our concerts. For bigger projects, the choir often works together with other Arte Musicale choirs or the orchestra.
In 2024, youth choir Furiale merged with the children’s choir Furiakanti, merging higher education students with secondary school students. Furiakanti had a longer history, winning the audience award for ‘Choir of the Year’ in Belgium in 2008 and receiving first place in a Provincial Choir Competition in Belgium in 2014. Chorists from both choirs also participated in an exciting exchange program with a choir from Barcelona in 2017.
Thanks to our recent decision to merge these two young choirs, we are able to create a bigger group of enthusiastic young singers, which makes it possible for us to have higher ambitions. Recently, we have taken on bigger projects, and we are definitely looking forward to our first international competition!