Honoring the life and legacy of Pope Francis (1936–2025), a man of compassion, wisdom, and deep humanity.
Through this musical tribute, we remember someone who never ceased to speak for the poor, the forgotten, and the voiceless. Pope Francis dedicated his papacy to breaking down barriers — between faiths, cultures, and people — reminding the world that mercy, dialogue, and love are stronger than division.
"Let us build bridges, not walls." – Pope Francis
He challenged the world to care less about power and status, and more about humility and service.
"The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love." – Pope Francis
From the Netherlands, we offer this performance as a final prayer of gratitude.
May his legacy live on in acts of kindness, and may he rest in eternal peace.
00:00 - 03:53 Ave Maria Caccini
03:54 - 08:29 You Raise Me Up
08:30 - 12:21 New Horizon
12:22 - 19:05 Hallelujah
#TheMaestro #PopeFrancis #RIP
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About Guido Dieteren (The Maestro):
Guido Dieteren (1974) is an orchestra leader, violin soloist, arranger and composer. He grew up in a special musical Limburg (The Netherlands) family. Guido's great-grandfather, grandfather and father were all conductors and with it his great musical examples. At an early age, Guido established his name as a concertmaster and soloist of various orchestras and then continued his career as a conductor, violinist and soloist with his own orchestra. Since then, he has played successful concert tours throughout Europe, China and North America.
During his conservatory study in Maastricht, Guido approached his childhood friend and pop keyboard player Falco Borsboom to compose, arrange and work on a new rousing orchestral production. Guido's Orchestra was born (now known as "The Maestro & The European Pop Orchestra")!
Since then, The Maestro & The European Pop Orchestra has experienced many musical highlights. Together with his orchestra, Maestro Guido has provided concerts all over the world, composed and arranged music for commercials (such as McDonald's, Rabobank, WWF, Dela, and AllSecur), played in several international TV shows, released several gold CDs and DVDs, produced large TV specials in all known world languages and performed live for more than 2.7 million visitors. Guido also collaborated as musical director and was involved artistically with many (inter)national artists such as Lionel Richie, Andrea Bocelli, Diana Ross, DJ AfroJack, Simply Red, Caro Emerald, Alessandro Safina, Marco Borsato, Doe Maar, Anouk, Jan Smit, Nick and Simon, Paul de Leeuw and many others.
Guido's heart is not only taken by The Maestro & The European Pop Orchestra and his passion for music. No, he also married the orchestra's solo soprano, Wendy Kokkelkoren, in 2006. After the first concert together, the spark caught on and since then, they have been inseparable. Together with their daughters Emma-Sophie and Annabel, Guido and Wendy form a happy musical family.
Artistic wishlist in the coming years, new TV Specials and songs will be recorded. The Maestro & The European Pop Orchestra wants to perform in many countries, like: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Poland, France, Italy, Brazil, South Korea, Philippines, China, Japan, Taiwan.
Please spread the word to family and friends! Make some advertisement for The Maestro & The European Pop Orchestra, and we will be soon performing in your beautiful country!
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