Concert and cocktail

Prieres(Prayers)

What if we listened to a prayer—with our eyes wide open? Inès Halimi invites you into a suspended moment between the sacred and the secular, where words meet sound, and voice meets breath.

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Her Prayers weave together Mozart, Verdi, and Corelli with original compositions, intertwined with poetry. All written for her soprano voice and the renowned saxophone quartet, Quatuor Ellipsos. A mystical journey that touches the soul.

Programme of friday October 10th

19:00 • Opening

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         19:30 - 20:30 • Belgian creation

         Prières (Payers), by Inès Halimi

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21:00 • Walking dinner in the Royal Library with the musicians

Catering by Witlof​

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in the National Library's Nassau Chapel

Mont des Arts 28, 1000 Brussel, Belgium

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About the event

Written during her residency at the Jan Michalski Foundation, Prayers takes the shape of a concert interwoven with poetry, where Inès Halimi explores the boundaries between the sacred and the profane. Her original compositions draw on psalmody and madrigal traditions, inspired by sacred texts such as the Cantique des Cantiques and 13th-century Sufi poetry, alongside new arrangements of sacred and secular works by W. A. Mozart, G. Verdi, and A. Corelli.

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Concert's Programme

* A. Corelli • Sonata da chiesa, Sonate en trio nº6 op.3 (IV. Allegro), arr. by I. Halimi​​

* I. Halimi • Chant d’harmonie, vocalise a cappella (poèmes soufis de Mansur Al Hallaj (858-922) & Ibn Arabi (1165-1241), literary composition, Inès Halimi)​​

* G. Verdi • Ave Maria (aria of Desdemona) from Otello, arr. by I. Halimi​​

* Now don’t you let nobody, arrangement for vocal quatuor (spiritual Negro)​​

* I. Halimi • Ex-votos,  four miniature pieces for saxophone solo

* I. Halimi • Le Maître d’amour, four madrigals for five voices a cappella (Sufi poetry by Ibn Arabi)

* I. Halimi • Le Cantique des Cantiques (Cantique nº3, extract)​​

* W.A. Mozart • Et incarnatus est, Mass in Ut minor, arr. by I. Halimi​​

* L. Colman • Walk Milky white way, gospel, arr. by W. Hooper​

* S. Alkabetz • Lekha dodi (‘Go, my beloved’) canticle sung at the Shabbat service (a cappella excerpts)

* L. Cohen • Hallelujah, arr. by A. Scott​​

* W.A. Mozart • Motet K.165 Exsultate, Jubilate, III. Alleluia, arr. by I. Halimi​

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* Artistic direction, conception, musical arrangements, compositions : Inès Halimi

* Stage director : Marc Mayoraz

* Soprano & conducting : Inès Halimi
* Saxophone quartet & singers : Ellipsos Quartet 

* Production : Compagnie …Sans Oublier…