18 March 2012 J.S. BACH BWV 83 Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde BWV 125 Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin Philippe Gérard Joëlle Charlier, alto Laurens Alexander Wyns, tenore Tristan Faes, basso On Sunday 18 March at 10h30 Minimes Church 62 Rue des Minimes, 1000 Brussels How to get there Entrance is free Philippe Gérard got his musical degrees in piano, chamber music and conducting at the Royal Conservatorium of Brussels. Active as a pianist and conductor in Belgium as well as abroad, he is also the permanent conductor of the chamber orchestra « la Chapelle musicale de Tournai ». He provided his collaboration to numerous youth orchestras (Conservatorium, Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, …) and professional ones (Orchestre national de Belgique, Orchestre de Liège, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie). Regularly invited by most of the Belgian festivals produced abroad, he was also assistant-choir conductor at the Monnaie in 2003/2004. He is a professor of conducting at the Royal Conservatorium of Brussels and provides there also accompaniment to piano and violin classes.