Bass-baritone

As well as being a passionate researcher and an enthusiastic storyteller, Wilfried is also a bass-baritone with international experience.

Wilfried has performed as a soloist across Europe with various orchestras, including the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the Belgian National Orchestra, the Real Filharmonia de Galicia, the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, the Heidelberg Philharmonic, deFilharmonie and others.

He sang, among other roles, Méphistophèles in Gounod’s Faust, Escamillo in Carmen, and Don Giovanni, and created the various bass roles in the operas Triumph of Spirit over Matter and Achilleus by Wim Henderickx. In Rain Requiem by Jef Neve and David Van Reybrouck, he sang the bass solo.

In Belgium, he was very active with Music Theatre Transparant, most recently in the 2023 creation of Cambio madre by Frank Nuyts.

Together with pianist Maciej Pikulski, he performed the great lied cycles and made several recordings, including Schubert’s Winterreise in the unique setting of Het Kanaal/Axel Vervoordt.

Wilfried effortlessly combines his love of 19th-century art song with the rich tradition of early musical theatre.

Together with pianist Bart Van Caenegem, he has developed the seven-part series Masters of American Song, featuring portraits of Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Harold Arlen and Kurt Weill. The first episode of the series, ‘Cole Porter in Paris’, is available for free at evilpenguin.tv (search for ‘Masters Of American Song’).

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