JANUARY 2025: a strange 'debut' at the canaries ;)
Freshly 68 years old, I have finally sung something I hadn't the chance to sing when I was a boy and I have always wanted to sing: the cantus firmus (soprano in ripieno part) of JS Bach's Matthew Passion (due to a lack of a local childrens choir at the Canaries). One could say I made a retrograde in my 'career'. Well, it was just marvellous. I sang together with Elisabeth Breuer, Merel van Geest and Carolina Andrade.
Merel and I are as of now for hire as a MP childrenschoir substitute. Just wait booking us until our marine costumes are ready. ;)
Merel and I are as of now for hire as a MP childrenschoir substitute. Just wait booking us until our marine costumes are ready. ;)
TON KOOPMAN ACADEMY 27-31 JAN. 2025 ROYAL CONSERVATORY THE HAGUE
I was honoured and happy to teach young singers and choristers at the Ton Koopman Academy.
What does it take to be a professional early music ensemble singer?
We had a marvellous week in which we had for once, finally, a bit of time to go into details.
On the musicstands we had music by G.F. Händel: Watermusic and Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline
JS Bach Markus passion in köln
20 years ago Ton Koopman made a reconstruction of JS Bach's Markus Passion. We even made a cd of it. The Gürzenich-Orchester Köln asked the maestro to perform it again, with them (modern pitch!) and with us, the Amsterdam Baroque Choir.
The combination of the two ensembles was quite frankly a love affair. In 2027 we're back in Kôln, to do Mozarts Requiem with them.
The combination of the two ensembles was quite frankly a love affair. In 2027 we're back in Kôln, to do Mozarts Requiem with them.
may 2025
G.F. HÄNDEL: DEBORAH !
maybe the best, loveliest and most heartwarming
production ever of the ABO&C
Just have a look at the pictures here below. Passion & fun & happiness evaporates from every image. (Most of them taken, by the way, by Donald Bentvelsen ! Bravo Donald.)
Here is a little impression of the premiere concert in Utrecht, Jacobi Kerk, 22 may 2025. But mind you, it's just a video I made with my mobile phone.
And yes, it resembles 'Dixit Dominus', Händel recycled it in a magnificent way.
And yes, it resembles 'Dixit Dominus', Händel recycled it in a magnificent way.
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