The Festival Motto
MUSICA DIVINA 2025
LOVE IN THE LAND OF MEADOWS
Between 18 September and 4 October 2025, we bring you the 13th edition of Musica Divina with heavenly music in the heart of the Kempen region. The Musica Divina festival brings heavenly, healing music to the beautiful abbeys, beguinages and churches of the Kempen region every autumn. It is organised by the Festival of Flanders Kempen in partnership with Averbode, Tongerlo (Westerlo), Mol/Postel, Geel, Heist-op-den-Berg, Herentals, Hoogstraten, Lier and Turnhout. The festival motto in 2025 is “Love in the Land of Meadows”.
Musica Divina 2025 is dedicated to the healing power of love. The place where it happens is the Land of Meadows: a lyrical name for the Kempen, derived from the Latin ‘campina’. Many aspects of love will be conveyed in music during the festival, from the Canticum Canticorum by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina to ‘Minne’ in the work of Hadewijch and Hildegard von Bingen or the passion of Astor Piazzolla.
Deep listening is one of the aspects closely associated with Musica Divina. The writer Erwin Mortier believes that the willingness to listen is also a form of love. He describes it as “paying attention, listening closely, devoting more than merely our ears to expanding the soul with another being, not necessarily a human.” In the same book about love, he also says that shaping our existential scream into music might well be the essence of love. May music resound more powerfully than ever before at Musica Divina 2025!
On behalf of the entire festival team, I would like to wish you a heavenly festival,
Jelle Dierickx