To realise this dual ambition, we are splitting the leadership role into two distinct, complementary positions. Wim Heuninck, Managing Director since 2025, will from now on focus entirely on the strategic development of our educational projects, the festival and our musical heritage. This creates both the opportunity and the need to recruit a new General Manager who will focus specifically on our core mission: making our uncompromising concerts possible in the world’s finest concert halls.

We are looking for someone with a strong artistic background, proven experience in fundraising and patronage, and an international network within the concert world. Please see the attached job vacancy.

Applications can be submitted until 10 August 2026 via info@collegiumvocale.com.

Vacancy CVG generalmanager

Find out when, where, how!

DATES

The next auditions will take place in :

Berlin (DE)     02-04 June 2026 [Studio Boerne, Boernestrasse 45, 15086 Berlin ] >  fully booked!

Ghent (BE)      20-22 October 2026  [Quatre Mains Piano’s, Kwaadham 52, 9000 Gent]

They will be judged by Dominique Verkinderen and Matthias Lutze .

More information & contact: Dominique Verkinderen > dominique@collegiumvocale.com 

APPLICATIONS FOR AUDITIONS

If not done already, the applicants are requested to send the following information and material to dominique@collegiumvocale.com

1. Curriculum Vitae
2. A personal information form, including your name, voice-type, address, telephone/mobile number, e-mail, date & place of birth & nationality
3. A picture of yourself
4. Details of the complete programme that you intend to sing
5. A recent recording with an aria or Lied as mp3 file (max. 5MB) or a link to your YouTube page

AUDITION REQUIREMENTS

You will be required to prepare:
1. An aria of your choice by J.S.Bach or G.F.Handel (at your chosen pitch of A=440 or 415 Hz)
2. A Lied of your choice from the romantic German repertoire (countertenors can sing a song by Dowland or Purcell for example).
3. For choir and ensemble singers – the motet ‘Singet dem Herrn’ BWV 225 by J.S.Bach (only the final part, from bar 256).
4. Soloists are requiered to sing an additional aria from the romantic repertoire.

Please note: Piano A = 440 or A = 415 for baroque repertoire

Readable and well organised scores must be sent by normal, unregistered mail to the accompanist at least 5 weeks before the auditions:

Professor Jonathan Alder | Alfredius Eols Udde 4, 13237 Saltsjö-Boo | Sweden

Please write on the scores whether you want 415/440 Hz

CONTACT

Collegium Vocale Gent
Dominique Verkinderen – casting and auditions
t +32 9 265 90 54 | m +32 475 97 67 97
dominique@collegiumvocale.com |

www.collegiumvocale.com