Henk Neven

Henk Neven is a versatile Dutch baritone who divides his shows among opera, oratorio, and lieder, and in each world he offers achieved notable achievement. His voice includes a wealthy, creamy build with a lot of power and versatility, his assets under seemingly ideal control. It really is no real surprise to Neven’s supporters that in the world of lieder he continues to be likened favorably with Fischer-Dieskau. Neven provides sung a number of operatic assignments, from Purcell (Aeneas) and Mozart (Don Giovanni) to Puccini (Schaunard in La bohème) and Messiaen (Frère Léon in St. François d’Assise). In concert he provides sung Bach’s St. Matthew Interest, the Requiems of Dvorák and Fauré, and he made an appearance in the January 2012 premiere in Utrecht of Marijn Simons’ 4th Symphony. Neven provides sung lieder by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Carl Loewe, among others, and provides documented for such brands as Opus Arte, Naxos, and Naïve. He provides appeared throughout European countries, the U.K., and Australia at such locations as holland Opera, the Paris Country wide Opera, Staatsoper Berlin Unter den Linden, La Monnaie, and many more, including main music celebrations. Neven spent some time working with such conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Edo de Waart, Christophe Rousset, Armin Jordan, and Marc Minkowski. Henk Neven was created in 1976 in the Rotterdam suburb of Krimpen aan den Ijssel, Netherlands. He sang in his years as a child and teenagers and continued to study in the Amsterdam Conservatory, where his educators included Maarten Koningsberger and Margreet Honig. In 2002 Neven received a diploma through the conservatory’s New Opera Academy and he graduated cum laude through the Conservatory the next year. He continuing studies through expert classes with Hartmut Höll, Jard vehicle Nes, Graham Johnson, and Graham Clark. He still works together with Margreet Honig and with Robert Holl. Neven was frequently showing up in concerts actually during his college student years. In 2004 he sang bass solos in Choir I on the Channel Classics Compact disc from the Bach St. John Enthusiasm led by Jos vehicle Veldhoven. Neven increased quickly and in 2006 made an appearance on the extremely acclaimed Naxos documenting from the Carl Loewe Enthusiasm Oratorio. In 2008 Neven was called winner from the renowned Fortis MeesPierson Honor from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Even more awards and citations adopted: the ensuing yr he was granted a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and in addition selected like a BBC New Generation Designer. 2011 was a watershed yr in the profession of Neven: in January he debuted to great acclaim at London’s Wigmore Hall with pianist Hans Eijsackers in an application of tracks by Beethoven, Fauré, Ibert, and Loewe; and in Apr he received the Netherlands’ highest honor to get a classical designer, the Dutch Music Reward. Even more fortune found Neven using the June launch of his 1st solo documenting, Auf einer Burg, an Onyx Compact disc filled with Schumann’s Liederkreis and different lieder of Carl Loewe. The documenting was nominated for the Gramophone award. In 2011 Neven also branched out into teaching when he accpeted a visitor faculty post on the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.