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Songwriting on stage

Start Sat 16 May '26
10:00 - 17:30

4 sessions

Prices

Basic price: € 185
All prices

Location OPEK
Vaartkom 4
3000 Leuven

More about the location(s)

Language & teacher(s) Dutch/English

This course offers an inspiring deep dive for musicians and singers who want to make music together and/or strengthen their own songs. This time, we will focus on songwriters with some experience who are interested in making their music shine on stage.

So be sure to bring your existing ideas, lyrics and songs, and who knows, you might work them out into a polished arrangement together with the other musicians in this course.

We will be working towards a concert at the WISPER presentation days (Friday evening, 29 May).

WISPER's resident songwriter and master of the craft Sebastiaan (Somebody Called Me Sebastiaan) will provide you with inspiration, motivation and coaching full of interesting insights. Together with the other participants, you get to work: you write, you play, you try. At the end of the weekend, if you are ready, you will play something for the group. Your fellow students will be your first, safe audience, from whom you will receive feedback, and with whom you can then move on.

Practical

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

There will be a break for lunch in the afternoon. Bring your own lunch, or buy it on site at Café Entrepot in OPEK or at Lidl around the corner.

Level of experience

Level 2 - 3: for songwriters with some experience. You may have previously taken a songwriting or production course at WISPER or gained that knowledge elsewhere.

This is an ideal series for anyone who wants to sharpen their skills, work together on their own creative ideas and seize the opportunity to perform on stage (again).

Sessions

  • Sat 16 May '26
    10:00 - 17:30
    OPEK - check bij aankomst / check upon arrival
  • Sat 23 May '26
    10:00 - 17:30
    OPEK - check bij aankomst / check upon arrival
  • Thu 28 May '26
    19:00 - 22:00
    OPEK - check bij aankomst / check upon arrival
  • Fri 29 May '26
    19:00 - 22:00
    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
    € 204 Choose this price and contribute to the course of someone who can’t afford it without help. How wonderful is that?
  • Basic price
    € 185 Covers the cost of your course. Nothing less, nothing more.
  • Reduced price
    € 148 If money is tight (right now).
  • Holders of Cultuurkaart KU Leuven
    € 139 For students at KU Leuven, UC Leuven-Limburg and LUCA Campus Lemmens
  • Social discount UiTPAS Leuven
    € 37 (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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