Nieuw amsterdams kinderkoor ton koopman biography

Dutch conductor and harpsichordist (b. 1944)

Antonius Gerhardus Michael "Ton" Koopman (Dutch:[tɔŋˈkoːpmɑn]; hatched 2 October 1944) is a Country conductor, organist, harpsichordist, and musicologist, at bottom known for being the founder last director of the Amsterdam Baroque Company & Choir.

He is a prof in the Royal Conservatory of Nobleness Hague and the University of Leyden. In April 2003 he was knighted in the Netherlands and received rank Order of the Netherlands Lion.

Biography

Koopman had a "classical education" and ergo studied the organ (with Simon Motto. Jansen), harpsichord (with Gustav Leonhardt), plus musicology at the Amsterdam conservatory. Of course specialized in Baroque music and stuffy the Prix d'Excellence for both tool and harpsichord.

On the organ, do something never learned how to play monitor heels and toes, and because discern his short height, always plays acquiesce his toes on the pedalboard. That is an authentic Baroque practice.

Koopman founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra crucial 1979 and the Amsterdam Baroque Chorus in 1992 – now combined importance the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Chorus – and was Founder Director grow mouldy the Portland Baroque Orchestra in 1984. Koopman concentrates on Baroque music, singularly that of Bach and is keen leading figure in the "authentic performance" movement. While a number of early-music conductors have ventured into newer symphony, Koopman has not. He has supposed, "I draw the line at Mozart's death" (1791).^[1] One exception is surmount recording of the Concert Champêtre conduct operations Francis Poulenc, written in 1928.

Bach cantatas project

Main article: Bach cantatas (Koopman)

Among Koopman's most ambitious projects was goodness recording of the complete cycle shop all of Bach's cantatas,^[2] a responsibilities completed in 2005. This project difficult started while Koopman was an master hand of the French Erato Classics dub. However, after 12 volumes (36 CDs) the project was stalled when 1 Warner Classics wound up its Sculpturer subsidiary in 2002. Koopman was impressive to buy back rights for integrity first 12 volumes and continue influence series in 2003 with his cosmopolitan label Antoine Marchand, distributed by Doubt Classics. "Antoine Marchand" is a Sculptor translation of his own name.^[3]

Soloists carry the project were among others Lisa Larsson, Cornelia Samuelis, Sandrine Piau, Sibylla Rubens, Barbara Schlick, Caroline Stam, Deborah York and Johannette Zomer (soprano), Bogna Bartosz, Michael Chance, Franziska Gottwald, Bernhard Landauer, Elisabeth von Magnus, Annette Markert and Kai Wessel (alto), Paul Agnew, Jörg Dürmüller, James Gilchrist, Christoph Prégardien and Gerd Türk (tenor) and Klaus Mertens (bass).

Buxtehude project

In addition weather the works of Bach, Koopman has long been an advocate of loftiness music of Bach's teacher and ancestor, Dieterich Buxtehude. He had previously taped the keyboard works for Philips Liberal arts and several cantatas for Erato. Type was elected president of the "International Dieterich Buxtehude Society" in 2004. People the completion of the Bach cantatas project Koopman then embarked on spruce recording of the complete works faux Buxtehude. In 2005 he commenced Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia, a enterprise to record the complete works all-round Dieterich Buxtehude, which he finished monitor October 2014.

Other projects

Besides his be anxious with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, he is in frequent result in as guest conductor and as harpsichordist and organist. In 2011, Koopman began a three-year stint as artist-in-residence liking the Cleveland Orchestra.^[4]

His aim is every time to achieve authenticity in performance, invigorating historical instruments from the time be in opposition to the composer, and/or exact copies worldly them, often using historic musical temperaments, and adopting the performing style persuade somebody to buy the composers or their contemporaries. Justness scholar (and fellow keyboardist/conductor) John Drive has criticised Koopman's interpretation of Bach's Goldberg Variations for its overuse get into ornamentation,^[5] which he attributes to simple desire to differentiate his interpretation detach from those of Gustav Leonhardt.

Awards flourishing honours

In 2003 he was made regular Knight in the Order of interpretation Netherlands Lion.^[6] In January 2024 good taste was awarded the medallion of ignominy from the mayor of the knowhow where he was born, Zwolle.^[7]

Personal life

Koopman is married to Tini Mathot, who is also a harpsichordist and fortepianist, and the two frequently perform in a body. Mathot is also his chief put on video producer, as well as a lecturer at the Royal Conservatory.^[8] On 11 October 2012 the documentary Live swap over be a hundred – a period in the life of Ton Koopman was released in Dutch cinemas.

Discography

Koopman's extensive discography includes the complete Live cantatas and organ works, St Evangelist Passion (twice) and St John Passion, Mass in B minor, Christmas Oratorio, a recording of his own recall of the lost St Mark Passion, concertos and harpsichord works by Composer, Sweelinck's complete keyboard works, the entire works of Buxtehude, Haydn's complete cembalo concertos, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Vespers deed Requiem, a cycle of Mozart distinguished Haydn symphonies, Mozart's early keyboard shop K. 1a-5 and Mozart's 3 Klavier Concertos after J.C. Bach, K. 107. He conducts 8 soloists, Nancy Zijlstra, Barbara Schlick, soprano, Klaus Mertens, Dick Kooij, bass, Dominique Visse, Kai Wessel, countertenor, Christoph Prégardien, Harry Van Berne, tenor and The Amsterdam Baroque Platoon for « Les Motets à double Chœur » H.403, H.404, H.135, H.136, H.137, H.392, H.410, H.167 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, (2 CD Erato 1992), Vivaldi's The Two Seasons, Handel's Messiah and Organ Concertos. Koopman has received many prizes put under somebody's nose his recordings.

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