IN PRODUCTION: Check out the demos of my current projects!

Promo-CD 'Storyteller' online!

I came up with the idea to produce my own promo-cd that includes a selection of work I've composed for film, tv & other purposes by request. Making the definitive selection & remixes was hard work and now it's finally here! You can listen and download the CD directly at www.belgianmusiconline.be/albumlink.php?id=687

A special thank you to: the musicians: Marc De Maeseneer, Pedro De Bruyckere, Isabelle Persyn, Dries Dewaele,... the directors and artists that worked with me: Kurt Vervaeren, Coen Haver, Junaid Chundrigar, Da Shy, ... Pieter Dewagter (Equus) for the great mastering, David Ausloos for the exceptional artwork and everyone else who made this release possible!

'Yellow'

After a great collaboration on 'Past Continuous' director Stijn Guillaume had already a new challenge for me in the works – namely writing music for his new thriller/horror story 'Yellow'. This gave me the opportunity to experiment with new sounds on this project. Although the deadline was very tight, the result is something to be proud of: www.myspace.com/jorishermy

The cast: Hilde Wils, Veerle Baetens, Ilse Marien and Rudy Morren.

New score for the shortfilm 'Past Continuous'

When director Stijn Guillaume heard my music for the mini-musical 'Pluk van de Petteflet' he asked me to write the score for his new shortfilm 'Past Continuous'. This enchanting little score is written with a romantic feel and has some intimate and funny moments in it as well. The score got the support of SABAM.

Fraulein Julie

I'm finishing the Music for a new and upcoming theaterproduction called ' Fraulein Julie'. It's an adaptation based on the wonderful'Fröken Julie' by August Stringberg written in 1888. Tijl Dauwe adapted this story into a dramatic musical theater-performance. Starring in the roles of Julie, Kristien and Johan are Vivienne Van den Berg, Mira Delbaen and Jurgen Stein.

September 1944. Antwerp has been liberated by the British forces. The war has finally come to an end and all around people are celebrating. The estate Henri van der Burcht is one of those places.

During this stiffling festive evening two youngsters are conflicted in the kitchen of the estate. She is the only child from the marriage between the duke and his German wife, he is the servant of the duke and his daughter. What follows is a love hate affaire with the high risk of dreaming the dream...

production: Liesbeth Wagemans
technical design: Micha Meijer

'Fraulein Julie' will be on stage on 10, 13 en 16 mei at 20u30 in CC 't Kerkske, Kapelstraat 182-2950 Kapellen-Belgie. Tickets (?15) & info : 0499/27.35.12 or via fraulein.julie@hotmail.com

'Pluk van de Petteflet CD' on myspace!

The mini-musical ‘Pluk van de Petteflet’ that I wrote with Fabio Van Hoorebeke is finally available on CD. The adventures of Pluk are performed by the original cast: Pieter Klinck, Charline Catrysse & Tijl Dauwe. A few excerpts of the music can be found on Pluk’s own myspace-page: www.myspace.com/plukcd.

Inability

I’ve composed the score for a new shortfilm entitled ‘Inability’.

It’s directed by Coen Haver under production by Movie Machine Group. It tells the story of a doctor named Albert, who is torn between his tragic private life, his position as a doctor dealing with a terminal patient and the encounter of a young woman that shares his interest in photography.

The film premiered last month at the Helmond theatre and is presented to several film-companies. The DVD will be released in February. You can listen to the music of the final scene at: www.myspace.com/jorishermy

Checkmate!!

I've just finished the music for a new educational theaterpiece called 'Checkmate!!'. It's written by Tijl Dauwe and will be performed by the author and actress Mira Delbaen in a Paco Production. The play deals with socially engaged subjects such as loss, devorce, depression, and friendship. 'Checkmate' contains 5 original songs that I've written with lyrics from Tijl Dauwe. An instrumental demo of the final song can be heard at: http://www.myspace.com/jorishermy

'What goes up'

After composing the music for the animated feature ‘Adventures in Zagbliblör’ I’ve collaborated once again with animator Junaid Chundrigar for his newest animation called ‘What goes up’. It was recently selected for ‘The Holland Animation Film Festival’.

You can watch it on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbJT9YQj-aw

Pluk van de Petteflet 5+

'a mini-musical based on the famous book'

My newest musical creation ‘Pluk van de Petteflet’ will première on july 19th. It will be the first time ever this story will be performed on stage in Belgium! It’s been directed and adapted by Fabio Van Hoorebeke.

A few of the demo’s can be heard at: www.myspace.com/jorishermy.

Story: Annie M.G. Schmidt
Direction & Adaptation: Fabio Van Hoorebeke
Music: Joris Hermy
Actors: Tijl Dauwe, Pieter Klinck, Charline Catrysse
Poster: Jorim Rademaker

Composing with Wim Henderickx

I was very fortunate to create a new composition supervised by Wim Hendericks & Diederik Glorieux. It was an exceptional experience because I was able to discover new musical ground. The composition’s called ‘Lost Lines’ and was performed with great virtuosity by the trio ‘Hommages at the final concert. Thank you Wim & Diederik for this unforgettable experience!

An excerpt from ‘Lost Lines’ and short interview can be heard at radio Klara.

www.klara.be www.wimhenderickx.com

Release mini-soundtrack 'the Wizard of Oz'

Awaiting the cd-release of 'Storyteller', I'm glad to announce that the mini-soundtrack to the theatre- production 'the Wizard of OZ' is finally released! You can download it at:
http://jorishermy.com/eng/music/theatre.php

Adventures in Zagbliblör

Animator Junaid Chundrigar asked me to create the theme for the musical show 'Adventures in Zagbliblör'. The intro-theme can be understood as a sparkling animation for which I could write epical music. You can listen to this composition at www.myspace.com/jorishermy and you will find this composition soon at the cd-release 'Storyteller'.

Beautiful Thing

On May 14th, 15th and 16th the play 'Beautiful Thing' will première in the Arca Theater, Ghent. I collaborated again with director Fabio Van Hoorebeke who also translated this story of growing up. It'll feature songs by Ann Christy and two piano themes especially composed for the occasion.

Info & tickets via 0495/47.47.27 or www.blindevink.be.

LouisLouise

I'm glad to announce that my tango-composition 'Los 4 Vampiros' will get it's tv-debut in the telenovelle 'LouisLouise'. It will appear in episode 58 that will be aired on December 11th and again on December 12th on the commercial network VTM. If you would've missed it you can watch it again on Sunday the 15th in 'The week of LouisLouise'. The tango can be heard on my site in the section free work 2007.
More information can be found at: the official site.

Theme Filmmusicsite.com

After talking things through with Arvid Fossen – the chief editor of the filmmusic-site - it was clear that it would be great idea to have a grand new theme for the website. It had to be a recognizable theme that also could be utilized in different topics brought by the filmmusicsite-redaction. The theme can be heard at: www.filmmusicsite.com.

Scrooge

At this moment I'm working on a new musical score that tells the well known Christmas-tale of 'Scrooge'. It's an all new production presented by the Theatercompany in Lokeren: 'Lust naar Kunst', and is directed by Fabio Van Hoorebeke. It will be a cheerful Victorian show with live music, amusing puppets and truly white snow! Based upon 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens.

The music for this cheerful show will be performed on piano and clarinet. To bring a sparkle of Christmas magic a children's choir is added to the intimate setting. They will perform some well known 'carols' as well as newly composed music for this show! A demo can be heard at www.myspace.com/jorishermy.

Cultureel Centrum Lokeren
Friday, December 12 & 19, 8.15pm | Saturday, December 13 & 20, 8.15pm | Sunday, December 14 & 21, 3.00pm

The Wizard of OZ 5+

1 actor, 9 instruments and 47 parts told in 65 minutes!

After the success of ‘Minoes last year, I was asked to write the music for a new adaptation of the classic story ‘The Wizard of Oz’ by actor, writer and director Fabio Van Hoorebeke more . Musically we’ve chosen to tell the story in a rather classical way by giving every character it’s own recognisable melody represented by a specific instrument. The Main Theme can be heard at: www.myspace.com/jorishermy

Lyrics & Play: Fabio Van Hoorebeke adapting L. Frank Baum’s classical ‘Wizard of Oz’
Music: Joris Hermy

Musical: Jungle Book

Last July I started on writing original music for my first musical: an adaptation of the classic story ‘Jungle Book’. It will be a mix of traditional theatre and musical, with an Indian touch, the way writer Rudyard Kipling intended it. It will open on April the 18th, performed by The Royal Youththeatre Company ‘Hand in Hand’ and direced by Fabio Van Hoorebeke. Here you can hear a teaser demo for this upcoming project: www.myspace.com/jorishermy

Bibkwintet

I just finished a rather interesting project that combines poetry and music in a creative crossover project. The Bibkwintet organised a writers-competition and asked me to write music to the 10 winning poems. This results in a variety of 10 songs each with it’s own story and atmosphere. Musically I tried to bring in a diversity of styles such as Waltz, Tango or even a Piano Ballad. The songs will be performed live on the 5th of March 2008, 19u30 at the CC Aartselaar.

Eurosong 2008 (part 2)

Eurosong 2008 brought an additional challenge. Besides writing an own song, I was asked to arrange a song written by Pedro De Bruyckere and performed by Luke Albert Jr. Although the song didn’t get selected, you can listen to it in the section ‘Music / arrangements. Have fun!

Eurosong 2008

It was a last minute call and quiet unexpected but why not do something crazy and sign in for Eurosong 2008? Thomas Van Der Spiegel came up with the idea and suggested that Pharahilde – better known as Veerle Geeroms – would be his artist of choice to perform a newly written song. He asked me to do it so I wrote a new song together with lyricist Fabio Van Hoorebeke and it’s called ‘Prima Donna of Your Heart’. It’s an aria in a modern yet Classical arrangement. Unfortunately we didn’t get selected but there’s little reason to be unhappy because the song found it’s way on the internet and you can listen to it online! Being very short notice I could not have done this on my own, so a very special thanks to: Thomas, Fabio, Bart, Stephen, Philippe, Peter and of course my special Prima Donna - Veerle!!!

‘Yeroushalaim Chel Zahav’

Director Bob Jennes asked me to collaborate on his latest project ‘The Investigation’. Bob asked me if I could arrange the classic hymn ‘Yeroushalaim Chel Zahav’. These arrangements were needed to evoce the right feeling in the crucial scenes. Additional to this I arranged ‘Traümerei’ by Robert Schumann for a musicbox. The arrangement of the hymn can be heared on www.myspace.com/jorishermy

The one and only Minoes soundtrack is now available!

I’m pleased to announce that the play ‘Minoes’ - for witch I composed the original music - received positive responses from press and public. But the highlight for me as a composer being that some people whistled the music afterwards. In the meanwhile we’ve been working hard to release a commercial album of the story and it’s music. De CD ( ref. JOJO009 ) has been released shortly and contains the story – narrated by Fabio Van Hoorebeke and Mira Delbaen - and concludes with ‘The Great Minoes Song’!

You can listen to 'Minoes - The Love Theme' from this CD when visiting: www.myspace.com/jorishermy

You can order the CD online, just mail cd@minoes.be

New music for shortfilm 'Zeebra'

I've just finished scoring a charming shortfilm directed by a promising young director Katrien Vanderlinden. Her latest project is called 'Zeebra' and is starring the gifted actors Sien Eggers ( In de Gloria ) and Steph Bayens ( Kaat & Co ). The Opening Titles are featured in the Music-section 'Shortfilm'.

New work for Euphonium

By request I’ve written a few compositions for Dries Dewaele entitled: Movement I – Danaide / Movement II – Abantis / Movement III – Agitato. Danaïde and Abantis have been recorded and you can check Danaïde out in the Music-section on this website. Agitato is still in the works.

Minoes visits Ghent!

Currently I’m working on the music for an adaptation from Annie M. G. Schmidt’s story ‘ Minoes’ adapted and directed by Fabio Van Hoorebeke. You can experience this play at the upcoming festivities in Ghent during the summer of 2007. (info & tickets: www.minoes.be)

Concertwork

I’m proud to anounce that my first Brassquartet compositions ( Fugue – Tango – Hymn ) have been completed. Rehearsals with the musicians are scheduled shortly, and I hope to present a recording of the work very soon.


E-mail: Subscribe Unsubscribe	IN PRODUCTION: Check out the demos of my current projects! Promo-CD 'Storyteller' online! I came up with the idea to produce my own promo-cd that includes a selection of work I've composed for film, tv & other purposes by request. Making the definitive selection & remixes was hard work and now it's finally here! You can listen and download the CD directly at www.belgianmusiconline.be/albumlink.php?id=687 A special thank you to: the musicians: Marc De Maeseneer, Pedro De Bruyckere, Isabelle Persyn, Dries Dewaele,... the directors and artists that worked with me: Kurt Vervaeren, Coen Haver, Junaid Chundrigar, Da Shy, ... Pieter Dewagter (Equus) for the great mastering, David Ausloos for the exceptional artwork and everyone else who made this release possible! 'Yellow' After a great collaboration on 'Past Continuous' director Stijn Guillaume had already a new challenge for me in the works – namely writing music for his new thriller/horror story 'Yellow'. This gave me the opportunity to experiment with new sounds on this project. Although the deadline was very tight, the result is something to be proud of: www.myspace.com/jorishermy The cast: Hilde Wils, Veerle Baetens, Ilse Marien and Rudy Morren. New score for the shortfilm 'Past Continuous' When director Stijn Guillaume heard my music for the mini-musical 'Pluk van de Petteflet' he asked me to write the score for his new shortfilm 'Past Continuous'. This enchanting little score is written with a romantic feel and has some intimate and funny moments in it as well. The score got the support of SABAM. Fraulein Julie I'm finishing the Music for a new and upcoming theaterproduction called ' Fraulein Julie'. It's an adaptation based on the wonderful'Fröken Julie' by August Stringberg written in 1888. Tijl Dauwe adapted this story into a dramatic musical theater-performance. Starring in the roles of Julie, Kristien and Johan are Vivienne Van den Berg, Mira Delbaen and Jurgen Stein. September 1944. Antwerp has been liberated by the British forces. The war has finally come to an end and all around people are celebrating. The estate Henri van der Burcht is one of those places. During this stiffling festive evening two youngsters are conflicted in the kitchen of the estate. She is the only child from the marriage between the duke and his German wife, he is the servant of the duke and his daughter. What follows is a love hate affaire with the high risk of dreaming the dream... production: Liesbeth Wagemans technical design: Micha Meijer 'Fraulein Julie' will be on stage on 10, 13 en 16 mei at 20u30 in CC 't Kerkske, Kapelstraat 182-2950 Kapellen-Belgie. Tickets (?15) & info : 0499/27.35.12 or via fraulein.julie@hotmail.com 'Pluk van de Petteflet CD' on myspace! The mini-musical ‘Pluk van de Petteflet’ that I wrote with Fabio Van Hoorebeke is finally available on CD. The adventures of Pluk are performed by the original cast: Pieter Klinck, Charline Catrysse & Tijl Dauwe. A few excerpts of the music can be found on Pluk’s own myspace-page: www.myspace.com/plukcd. Inability I’ve composed the score for a new shortfilm entitled ‘Inability’. It’s directed by Coen Haver under production by Movie Machine Group. It tells the story of a doctor named Albert, who is torn between his tragic private life, his position as a doctor dealing with a terminal patient and the encounter of a young woman that shares his interest in photography. The film premiered last month at the Helmond theatre and is presented to several film-companies. The DVD will be released in February. You can listen to the music of the final scene at: www.myspace.com/jorishermy Checkmate!! I've just finished the music for a new educational theaterpiece called 'Checkmate!!'. It's written by Tijl Dauwe and will be performed by the author and actress Mira Delbaen in a Paco Production. The play deals with socially engaged subjects such as loss, devorce, depression, and friendship. 'Checkmate' contains 5 original songs that I've written with lyrics from Tijl Dauwe. An instrumental demo of the final song can be heard at: http://www.myspace.com/jorishermy 'What goes up' After composing the music for the animated feature ‘Adventures in Zagbliblör’ I’ve collaborated once again with animator Junaid Chundrigar for his newest animation called ‘What goes up’. It was recently selected for ‘The Holland Animation Film Festival’. You can watch it on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbJT9YQj-aw Pluk van de Petteflet 5+ 'a mini-musical based on the famous book' My newest musical creation ‘Pluk van de Petteflet’ will première on july 19th. It will be the first time ever this story will be performed on stage in Belgium! It’s been directed and adapted by Fabio Van Hoorebeke. A few of the demo’s can be heard at: www.myspace.com/jorishermy. Story: Annie M.G. Schmidt Direction & Adaptation: Fabio Van Hoorebeke Music: Joris Hermy Actors: Tijl Dauwe, Pieter Klinck, Charline Catrysse Poster: Jorim Rademaker Composing with Wim Henderickx I was very fortunate to create a new composition supervised by Wim Hendericks & Diederik Glorieux. It was an exceptional experience because I was able to discover new musical ground. The composition’s called ‘Lost Lines’ and was performed with great virtuosity by the trio ‘Hommages at the final concert. Thank you Wim & Diederik for this unforgettable experience! An excerpt from ‘Lost Lines’ and short interview can be heard at radio Klara. www.klara.be www.wimhenderickx.com Release mini-soundtrack 'the Wizard of Oz' Awaiting the cd-release of 'Storyteller', I'm glad to announce that the mini-soundtrack to the theatre- production 'the Wizard of OZ' is finally released! You can download it at: http://jorishermy.com/eng/music/theatre.php Adventures in Zagbliblör Animator Junaid Chundrigar asked me to create the theme for the musical show 'Adventures in Zagbliblör'. The intro-theme can be understood as a sparkling animation for which I could write epical music. You can listen to this composition at www.myspace.com/jorishermy and you will find this composition soon at the cd-release 'Storyteller'. Beautiful Thing On May 14th, 15th and 16th the play 'Beautiful Thing' will première in the Arca Theater, Ghent. I collaborated again with director Fabio Van Hoorebeke who also translated this story of growing up. It'll feature songs by Ann Christy and two piano themes especially composed for the occasion. Info & tickets via 0495/47.47.27 or www.blindevink.be. LouisLouise I'm glad to announce that my tango-composition 'Los 4 Vampiros' will get it's tv-debut in the telenovelle 'LouisLouise'. It will appear in episode 58 that will be aired on December 11th and again on December 12th on the commercial network VTM. If you would've missed it you can watch it again on Sunday the 15th in 'The week of LouisLouise'. The tango can be heard on my site in the section free work 2007. More information can be found at: the official site. Theme Filmmusicsite.com After talking things through with Arvid Fossen – the chief editor of the filmmusic-site - it was clear that it would be great idea to have a grand new theme for the website. It had to be a recognizable theme that also could be utilized in different topics brought by the filmmusicsite-redaction. The theme can be heard at: www.filmmusicsite.com. Scrooge At this moment I'm working on a new musical score that tells the well known Christmas-tale of 'Scrooge'. It's an all new production presented by the Theatercompany in Lokeren: 'Lust naar Kunst', and is directed by Fabio Van Hoorebeke. It will be a cheerful Victorian show with live music, amusing puppets and truly white snow! Based upon 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens. The music for this cheerful show will be performed on piano and clarinet. To bring a sparkle of Christmas magic a children's choir is added to the intimate setting. They will perform some well known 'carols' as well as newly composed music for this show! A demo can be heard at www.myspace.com/jorishermy. Cultureel Centrum Lokeren Friday, December 12 & 19, 8.15pm \| Saturday, December 13 & 20, 8.15pm \| Sunday, December 14 & 21, 3.00pm The Wizard of OZ 5+ 1 actor, 9 instruments and 47 parts told in 65 minutes! After the success of ‘Minoes last year, I was asked to write the music for a new adaptation of the classic story ‘The Wizard of Oz’ by actor, writer and director Fabio Van Hoorebeke more . Musically we’ve chosen to tell the story in a rather classical way by giving every character it’s own recognisable melody represented by a specific instrument. The Main Theme can be heard at: www.myspace.com/jorishermy Lyrics & Play: Fabio Van Hoorebeke adapting L. Frank Baum’s classical ‘Wizard of Oz’ Music: Joris Hermy Musical: Jungle Book Last July I started on writing original music for my first musical: an adaptation of the classic story ‘Jungle Book’. It will be a mix of traditional theatre and musical, with an Indian touch, the way writer Rudyard Kipling intended it. It will open on April the 18th, performed by The Royal Youththeatre Company ‘Hand in Hand’ and direced by Fabio Van Hoorebeke. Here you can hear a teaser demo for this upcoming project: www.myspace.com/jorishermy Bibkwintet I just finished a rather interesting project that combines poetry and music in a creative crossover project. The Bibkwintet organised a writers-competition and asked me to write music to the 10 winning poems. This results in a variety of 10 songs each with it’s own story and atmosphere. Musically I tried to bring in a diversity of styles such as Waltz, Tango or even a Piano Ballad. The songs will be performed live on the 5th of March 2008, 19u30 at the CC Aartselaar. Eurosong 2008 (part 2) Eurosong 2008 brought an additional challenge. Besides writing an own song, I was asked to arrange a song written by Pedro De Bruyckere and performed by Luke Albert Jr. Although the song didn’t get selected, you can listen to it in the section ‘Music / arrangements. Have fun! Eurosong 2008 It was a last minute call and quiet unexpected but why not do something crazy and sign in for Eurosong 2008? Thomas Van Der Spiegel came up with the idea and suggested that Pharahilde – better known as Veerle Geeroms – would be his artist of choice to perform a newly written song. He asked me to do it so I wrote a new song together with lyricist Fabio Van Hoorebeke and it’s called ‘Prima Donna of Your Heart’. It’s an aria in a modern yet Classical arrangement. Unfortunately we didn’t get selected but there’s little reason to be unhappy because the song found it’s way on the internet and you can listen to it online! Being very short notice I could not have done this on my own, so a very special thanks to: Thomas, Fabio, Bart, Stephen, Philippe, Peter and of course my special Prima Donna - Veerle!!! ‘Yeroushalaim Chel Zahav’ Director Bob Jennes asked me to collaborate on his latest project ‘The Investigation’. Bob asked me if I could arrange the classic hymn ‘Yeroushalaim Chel Zahav’. These arrangements were needed to evoce the right feeling in the crucial scenes. Additional to this I arranged ‘Traümerei’ by Robert Schumann for a musicbox. The arrangement of the hymn can be heared on www.myspace.com/jorishermy The one and only Minoes soundtrack is now available! I’m pleased to announce that the play ‘Minoes’ - for witch I composed the original music - received positive responses from press and public. But the highlight for me as a composer being that some people whistled the music afterwards. In the meanwhile we’ve been working hard to release a commercial album of the story and it’s music. De CD ( ref. JOJO009 ) has been released shortly and contains the story – narrated by Fabio Van Hoorebeke and Mira Delbaen - and concludes with ‘The Great Minoes Song’! You can listen to 'Minoes - The Love Theme' from this CD when visiting: www.myspace.com/jorishermy You can order the CD online, just mail cd@minoes.be New music for shortfilm 'Zeebra' I've just finished scoring a charming shortfilm directed by a promising young director Katrien Vanderlinden. Her latest project is called 'Zeebra' and is starring the gifted actors Sien Eggers ( In de Gloria ) and Steph Bayens ( Kaat & Co ). The Opening Titles are featured in the Music-section 'Shortfilm'. New work for Euphonium By request I’ve written a few compositions for Dries Dewaele entitled: Movement I – Danaide / Movement II – Abantis / Movement III – Agitato. Danaïde and Abantis have been recorded and you can check Danaïde out in the Music-section on this website. Agitato is still in the works. Minoes visits Ghent! Currently I’m working on the music for an adaptation from Annie M. G. Schmidt’s story ‘ Minoes’ adapted and directed by Fabio Van Hoorebeke. You can experience this play at the upcoming festivities in Ghent during the summer of 2007. (info & tickets: www.minoes.be) Concertwork I’m proud to anounce that my first Brassquartet compositions ( Fugue – Tango – Hymn ) have been completed. Rehearsals with the musicians are scheduled shortly, and I hope to present a recording of the work very soon.