The Furiant Chamber Choir was founded by Steve De Veirman in September 1995 and quickly developed into a balanced ensemble performing at the highest level. The name ‘Furiant’ guarantees lively, energetic and expressive music, performed by powerful youthful voices. Primarily the choir aims at gathering a group of voices that are as homogeneous as possible. But Furiant also invests a lot of time and energy into the technical development of each individual – bringing in trained voice coaches when needed.
With the repertoire the choir tries to give an impression of the full scale of polyphonic musical literature. It aims at displaying the vibrancy of colour and expressions of chamber choir music, throughout different styles and decades. Recent works created by composers such as Eric Whitacre, Jake Runestad and Ola Gjeilo are also frequently performed. The Chamber Choir took part several times in the Belgian ‘Choir of the Year’ competition, and was as such the finalist at the Lemmens Institute Concert in 2005, and semi-finalist at the Flagey Studio 4 in 2004.
Furiant also participated in other major projects such as a performance of the musical ‘West Side Story’, a stage production of ‘Amadeus’ and the ‘Ode Gand by Night’-edition of 2013 organized by the Ghent Festival of Flanders. In november 2014 Furiant hosted the Thai Suanplu Chorus in the Saint-Nicolas Church (in Ghent, and took part in the spectacle piece ‘1000 Voices for Peace’, in remembrance of the first World War, this in cooperation with the Festival of Flanders Brussels). From January 2016 Furiant promoted to the highest division of the Belgian Choir Competition. In 2018 Furiant hosted the Barcelonean ‘Cor de Cambra de Granollers’ conducted by Josep Vila Jover. In return Furiant visited its colleagues last October and joined them into several concerts in Barcelona.
In 2018, we ranked in the Champions Competition of INTERKULTUR – the top tournament category. In 2021, we won two gold medals at the World Choir Games in Flanders (in the categories Mixed Chamber Choirs and Sacred Music). A year later, we achieved a fine 6th place at the International Choir Festival in Genk.
In 2025, on the occasion of our 35th anniversary, we took part in the International Choir Competition in Provence, France. We returned home with a First Prize in the Mixed Choirs category, and our conductor received the Best Conductor Award – a well-deserved recognition of an impressive musical journey.
A choir with spirit, ambition, and above all, countless goosebump moments!
