Make Yourself Heard: Seven Mini-Documentaries on the Love of Singing
In the run up to its final festival, Yo! Opera created seven mini-documentaries together with The Young Ones in which seven young people between 13 and 23 years of age talk about their passion for singing and playing music. Sterre (13), Stef (19), Marije (17), Michael (21), Judith (16), Kasper (22) and Thomas (22) tell us all about their love of singing, about their dreams, their doubts and about moments when singing really touched them. These mini-documentaries formed the backbone of the festival campaign on youth and their ideas about singing.
About the seven young people featured in the documentaries:
Kasper Tarenskeen (22) is a singer, musician and theatre maker. At the Yo! Opera Festival he could be seen in his own show Elvis 2.0. He also sung in the Short Opera De Tweede Mijl [The Second Mile].
At the time of the festival, Marije Visscher (17) was still in the final grade of preuniversity education, at her school CSG Het Noordik in Almelo. During previous years she has been playing in several music theatrical productions and she sang with Het Orkest van het Oosten and The Young Ones.
Stef Veldhuis (19) has been playing music since he was very young. In 2009 his band called The Casings ranked second at the national finals of the Kunstbende competition. In 2011, Stef started his Musician 3.0 studies at Utrecht conservatory.
Baritone Michael Wilmering (21) was at the time of the festival in the third year of his conservatory studies at Utrecht Conservatory. Michael participated in various smaller productions, such as Marco Polo, a production by De Nederlandse Opera. He also took part in 'De Operaflat', a Yo! Opera production.
Sterre Bolluijt was 13 years old in 2011. She was a pupil of Oosterlicht College in Nieuwegein. During the Yo! Opera Festival, she played and sung in the show 'Change Your World' by VocaalLAB.
Thomas Hengeveld (22) is an actor, singer and musician. He graduated from the intermediate vocational Youth Theatre School Hofplein in Rotterdam in 2010. Since then, he played various leading parts at Youth Theatre Hofplein and in collaboration with The Young Ones. Next to that, he is a vocal coach and singing teacher at Hofplein.
Judith Rijsenbrij (16) is in the fifth grade of the 4e Gymnasium in Amsterdam. She has been playing the piano since she was eight years old and sang in the children's choir of De Nederlandse Opera until she was twelve years old. Since 2009 she sings in her own band, called 'Out of the Blue'. At the 2011 edition of the Yo! Opera Festival, Judith starred in 'Opera 2.0: Smells Like Tahrir Spirit', a collaboration between theatre group Dox, Het Lab and Yo! Opera.
About the seven young people featured in the documentaries:
Kasper Tarenskeen (22) is a singer, musician and theatre maker. At the Yo! Opera Festival he could be seen in his own show Elvis 2.0. He also sung in the Short Opera De Tweede Mijl [The Second Mile].
At the time of the festival, Marije Visscher (17) was still in the final grade of preuniversity education, at her school CSG Het Noordik in Almelo. During previous years she has been playing in several music theatrical productions and she sang with Het Orkest van het Oosten and The Young Ones.
Stef Veldhuis (19) has been playing music since he was very young. In 2009 his band called The Casings ranked second at the national finals of the Kunstbende competition. In 2011, Stef started his Musician 3.0 studies at Utrecht conservatory.
Baritone Michael Wilmering (21) was at the time of the festival in the third year of his conservatory studies at Utrecht Conservatory. Michael participated in various smaller productions, such as Marco Polo, a production by De Nederlandse Opera. He also took part in 'De Operaflat', a Yo! Opera production.
Sterre Bolluijt was 13 years old in 2011. She was a pupil of Oosterlicht College in Nieuwegein. During the Yo! Opera Festival, she played and sung in the show 'Change Your World' by VocaalLAB.
Thomas Hengeveld (22) is an actor, singer and musician. He graduated from the intermediate vocational Youth Theatre School Hofplein in Rotterdam in 2010. Since then, he played various leading parts at Youth Theatre Hofplein and in collaboration with The Young Ones. Next to that, he is a vocal coach and singing teacher at Hofplein.
Judith Rijsenbrij (16) is in the fifth grade of the 4e Gymnasium in Amsterdam. She has been playing the piano since she was eight years old and sang in the children's choir of De Nederlandse Opera until she was twelve years old. Since 2009 she sings in her own band, called 'Out of the Blue'. At the 2011 edition of the Yo! Opera Festival, Judith starred in 'Opera 2.0: Smells Like Tahrir Spirit', a collaboration between theatre group Dox, Het Lab and Yo! Opera.
