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Towards your first EP! (for songwriters and musicians)

Start Sat 11 October '25
10:00 - 17:30

6 sessions

Prices

Basic Price: € 345
All prices

Location OPEK
Vaartkom 4
3000 Leuven

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Language & teacher(s) Dutch/English

Have you been mulling over your musical ideas for a while, but can't seem to finish them off? In this course, you will learn all the tools you need to finish your first songs, record them and share them with the world.

Please note, we won't be making your EP during the classes. In the sessions we dive deep into musical research. Together with the other participants you get to work. You write, arrange, play, listen, try and get inspired. We always show the work to the group. They are your first real fans whose feedback allows you to take another step forward.

On top of guidance on songwriting and arrangement, you will learn all the tips and tricks to record your songs multitrack yourself using your DAW (with an audio interface + microphone). We will drop you off at a place where you can confidently start working with your own material and dare to share it with the world, both live and online, e.g. for your profile on vi.be or soundcloud.

2026 will be your year to share music! Are you in a band and want to participate together? You certainly can! Just make sure to register each band member as separate participants.

Above all, come and enjoy this gigantic musical adventure! And who knows, you might even meet new musical partners in crime during the course.

Practical

Bring your own instrument, and possibly your (unfinished) musical ideas, if you have any. WISPER will provide a piano and percussion equipment.

Level of experience

Level 3: you are working on your own material as a songwriter/musician/composer and want to take it a step further to achieve results. You can also participate as a band (each band member registers separately).

Sessions

  • Sat 11 October '25
    10:00 - 17:30
    OPEK - check bij aankomst / check upon arrival
  • Sat 18 October '25
    10:00 - 17:30
    OPEK - check bij aankomst / check upon arrival
  • Sat 25 October '25
    10:00 - 17:30
    OPEK - check bij aankomst / check upon arrival
  • Sat 1 November '25
    10:00 - 17:30
    OPEK - check bij aankomst / check upon arrival
  • Sat 15 November '25
    10:00 - 17:30
    OPEK - check bij aankomst / check upon arrival
  • Sat 22 November '25
    10:00 - 17:30
    OPEK - check bij aankomst / check upon arrival

Location(s)

  • OPEK Vaartkom 4
    3000 Leuven Show on map

    Check www.opek.be for more information about how to get here. At the first session, you will be welcomed by someone from WISPER who will tell you exactly where in/around the building your course takes place.

    Good to know if you take a full-day course here: for the lunch break, you can bring your own lunch, eat in at Café Entrepot or buy something at the Lidl supermarket around the corner.

Prices

  • Better world price
    € 380 Choose this price and contribute to the course of someone who can’t afford it without help. How wonderful is that?
  • Basic Price
    € 345 Covers the cost of your course. Nothing less, nothing more.
  • Reduced price
    € 276 If money is tight (right now).
  • Holders of Cultuurkaart KU Leuven
    € 259 For students at KU Leuven, UC Leuven-Limburg and LUCA Campus Lemmens
  • Social discount UiTPAS Leuven
    € 69 (max 6 / year) only for Leuven citizens

Teacher

Sebastiaan Simoens

As a singer-songwriter Sebastiaan Simoens is very much captivated by melody and polyphony. After…
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Reindert Spanhove

Reindert is our musicman in Leuven, artist, producer and multi-intrumentalist. He studied at…
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