Aline was awarded joint First Prize for her performance in the A Ramsay Calder Debussy Prize for Voice including The Norma Greig French Song Prize. She and Michal Gajzler (piano) presented a very personal programme connected to poets, composers and themes from her home country, Belgium. The Adjudicator was English soprano Katherine Broderick, who particularly praised Aline’s storytelling and connection with the audience.

The programme included:

Gabriel Fauré - Paradis (from Chanson d’Eve)
based on the poem by Charles Van Lerberghe

Claude Debussy - Paysages Belges (from Ariettes Oubliées)
based on the poem by Paul Verlaine

Joseph Jongen - Entrevisions (from Six Mélodies de Maturité)
based on the poem by Charles Van Lerberghe

Joseph Jongen  - Lès Målureûs
based on the Walloon poem by Charles Derache

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