some really exceptional and absolutely great news reached our ears...  Z V E Z D O L I K I's creator, founder, artistic director and flautist Oriana Dierinck, has been nominated for one of the 4 "borgerhoutse cultuurprijzen 2018". 

a jury consisting of previous winners, people from the city arts council, the culture department, and the district councillor borgerhout have chosen a winner for each of the 4 categories : "Reus" (carreer), "Reuzin" (spotlight), "Dolfijn" (promising talent) and "Kinnebaba" (diversity in all fields).
the awards ceremony is on November 25th, in Districtshuis Borgerhout.

this is such an honour!

and... thumbs up!

also in october, we played the first concert of our series in our brand new "home", the begijnhof antwerpen.  our "maría" CD was baptised by poet peter holvoet and we performed music by - off course :) - piazzolla, stravinsky, bártok and chaplin.  a video recording has been made and it soon will be available.

now.. on to preparing begijnhof II, which will be.. bach!
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;meanwhile, our beloved live studio recording of piazzolla's "maría de buenos aires" has been released on october 5th by antarctica records and internationally distributed by challenge records. ; the beautufully designed double CD is available in any online shop you can think of.  in a few weeks, it will also be available in fnac.  
the recording already received several praising reviews.  you can read them here and here.
​feel free to order your copy here.