Harry van der Kamp

Harry truck der Kamp is normally viewed as among the leading Dutch bass performers of his era. He offers sung 30 or even more operatic functions, but offers tended to favour ensemble and single repertory, focusing mainly on music created through the Renaissance period up through the eighteenth hundred years. Yet he in addition has participated in lots of contemporary works, such as for example Alexander Knaifel’s opera Alice in Wonderland, where he sang four functions. Vehicle der Kamp was created in Kampen, Holland, in 1947. His 1st advanced studies had been in rules and mindset, but he ultimately decided to sign up for music study on the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatory. There his tone of voice teachers had been Elisabeth Cooymans and Potential van Egmond. Afterwards he had taken vocal instruction in the well-known British countertenor Alfred Deller and from French baritone Pierre Bernac. He also examined with Herman Woltman (1974). During his pupil years truck der Kamp sang with Cappella Amsterdam, under Jan Boeke. He still left that ensemble in 1975, the entire year after he became a member of the Nederlands Kamerkoor, an organization he would stay with for twenty years, portion as its creative consultant from 1980-1987. He produced several significant recordings as an associate of this recognized ensemble, specifically of many J.S. Bach cantatas, with conductors Frans Brueggen, Lot Koopman, and Sigiswald Kuijken. In 1984 truck der Kamp founded the vocal outfit Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, its selection of repertory encompassing both early and contemporary music. Through the 1980s and 1990s he also forged a significant profession in opera and concert functions. Truck der Kamp provides made an appearance in and documented wide-ranging operatic repertory, in the well-known — Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Die Zauberflöte — towards the little-known and contemporary — Stefan Wolpe’s Zeus und Elida. He in addition has sung and documented such single/choral staples as Verdi’s Requiem and Haydn’s Creation. In 1994 truck der Kamp was appointed teacher of vocal research at Bremen’s Hochschule für Musik, a post he still kept in 2006. He also offered as a going to teacher of vocal research on the Helsinki-based Sibelius Academy in 1997-1998. In the brand new century truck der Kamp continues to be fairly energetic, both in the concert hall and on recordings. His afterwards recordings are the NMC Compact disc of Klaas de Vries’ oratorio A Ruler, Riding (2004) as well as the CPO problem of Carlo Gesualdo’s madrigals, Books I-III (2005).