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Cappella Amsterdam (Chamber Choir)

Founded: 1970 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Cappella Amsterdam is a professional chamber choir that was founded in 1970 by Jan Boeke. Over the past years the ensemble, under the direction of Daniel Reuss, has occupied a prominent position in the fields of both early music and the modern and contemporary repertoires. The group aims to involve a wide audience in choral music, in particular works by old and new composers from Holland. To this end Cappella Amsterdam has realised numerous projects with works by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and Orlando di Lasso as well as modern compositions, often written for the choir, by Ton de Leeuw, Hans Koolmees, Robert Heppener, Peter Schat and Klaas de Vries. Jan van Vlijmen composed by order of Cappella Amsterdam Choeurs (1999), four choirs of his new opera Thyeste, which is performed for the first time on September 27, 2005 at La Monnaie in Brussels.

Cappella Amsterdam often participates in different opera-productions: Tan Dun's Marco Polo, Guus Jansen's and Friso Haverkamp's Hierº , Rameau's Les Indes Galantes (co-operation with the Orchestra of the 18th Century and Frans Brüggen) and Jan van de Putte's Wet Snow in the Holland Festival 2004. With Dance Group Krisztina de Châtel the choir realised in the spring of 2003 a series performances of Obscura, a choreography for dancers and singers to new music of Hans Koolmees, among other works.

Cappella Amsterdam is frequently invited to participate in productions programmed by renowned Dutch Festivals as the Holland Festival, the Holland Festival Early Music Utrecht and the Festival Musica Sacra in Maastricht. On the invitation of the festivals Settembre Musica, La Folle Journée, Ars Musica and Berliner Festspiele, Cappella Amsterdam has performed in Turin, Nantes, Lisbon, Tokyo, Brussels and Berlin.

Collaborations with major orchestras, instrumental ensembles and choirs have included among the others the ASKO/Schönberg Ensemble, Ebony Band, Nieuw Ensemble, Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestra of the 18th Century, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart and RIAS-Kammerchor.

Musical Directors

Jan Boeke (1970-1990)
Daniel Reuss (1990-Present)

Members of Cappella Amsterdam:

Sopranos

Mezzo-sopranos/Altos

Tenors

Basses

Myriam Arbouz
Aldona Bartnik
Andrea van Beek [MB]
Elisabeth Blom
Bobbie Blommesteijn
Martha Bosch
Saskia Bouma
Lucie Chartin
Katharine Dain
Marijke van der Harst
Christien van 't Hof
Cecile Kempenaers
Mariëlle Kirkels [MB]
Maria Köpcke
Astrid Lammers [MB]
Vera Lansink
Simone Manders [MB]
Valeria Mignaco
Mariëtte Oelderik
Judith Pranger
Esther Putter
Margreet Rietveld
Inga Schneider
Cressida Sharp
Marjo van Someren
Rachel Thompson
Elma Timmers
Suzanne Verburg

Petra Ehrismann
Daniël Elgersma
Sabine van der Heyden
Marcel Jorquera Vinyals
Luise Kimm
Mariëlle Kirkels
Kaspar Kröner
Mieke van Laren
Dorien Lievers
Laura Lopes
Valeria Mignaco
Natascha Morsink
Bernadett Nagy
Åsa Olsson
Ilona Popova
Michaela Riener
Inga Schneider
Marjolein Stots [MB]
Suzanne Verburg
Desirée Verlaan
Anne-Kristin Zschunke

Harry van Berne
Otto Bouwknegt
Robert Coupe
Dolf Drabbels
Jon Etxabe-Arzuaga
Stefan Berghammer
Florian Feth
Guido Groenland
Gerhard Hölzle
Mattijs Hoogendijk
Gerben Houba
Stefan Kennedy
Johannes Klügling
William Knight
Adriaan De Koster
Jörg Krause
Jelle Leistra
Carlos Monteiro
Luigi Orsini
José Pizarro
Albert Riera
Diederik Rooker
Markus Schuck
Patrick Siegrist
Koen van Stade
Endrik Üksvärav
Réne Veen
Joost van Velzen
Thomas Volle

Robert-Jan Agricola
Coert van der Berg
Martijn de Graaf Bierbrauwer
Nicolas Boulanger
Erks Jan Dekker
Jan Douwes
Christoph Drescher [MB]
Christian van Es [MB]
Andreas Goetze
Jacob Gramit
Jan Hoffmann
Harry van der Kamp
Kees Jan de Koning
Matthias Lutze
Bart Oenema
Michel Poels
Hans Pootjes
Drew Santini
Greg Skidmore
Johan Vermeer [M]
Pierre-Guy Le Gall White

MB = Missing Biography. If you would like to contribute a biography of the artist, please send me a message. My e-mail address and the instructions can be found at the page: Short Biographies - Explanation.

 


Sources:
Cappella Amsterdam Website (2007-2008)
Contributed by
Aryeh Oron (August 2007, August 2014, October 2015, June 2016)

Daniel Reuss: Short Biography | Ensembles: Cappella Amsterdam
Bach Discography:
Recordings of Vocal Works

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Frans Brüggen

Choir

[CV-1] (2008, Video): BWV 106, BWV 198
BWV 232 [2nd], BWV 232 [3rd]
V-8 (2010):
BWV 245 [2nd recording]
V-6 (2010):
BWV 245 [3rd recording]
BWV 249

Jan Willem de Vriend

Choir

V-1 (2006): BWV 248/1-6 [1st recording]

Links to other Sites

Cappella Amsterdam (Official Website) [Dutch/English]


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