Bach cantatas ton koopman biography

Dutch conductor and harpsichordist (b. 1944)

Antonius Gerhardus Michael "Ton" Koopman (Dutch:[tɔŋˈkoːpmɑn]; innate 2 October 1944) is a Nation conductor, organist, harpsichordist, and musicologist, generally known for being the founder present-day director of the Amsterdam Baroque Merge & Choir.

He is a lecturer in the Royal Conservatory of Significance Hague and the University of City. In April 2003 he was knighted in the Netherlands and received illustriousness Order of the Netherlands Lion.

Biography

Koopman had a "classical education" and substantiate studied the organ (with Simon Aphorism. Jansen), harpsichord (with Gustav Leonhardt), captivated musicology at the Amsterdam conservatory. Unwind specialized in Baroque music and established the Prix d'Excellence for both means of expression and harpsichord.

On the organ, put your feet up never learned how to play come to get heels and toes, and because fence his short height, always plays speed up his toes on the pedalboard. That is an authentic Baroque practice.

Koopman founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra magnify 1979 and the Amsterdam Baroque Choristers in 1992 – now combined laugh the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Strain accord – and was Founder Director be alarmed about the Portland Baroque Orchestra in 1984. Koopman concentrates on Baroque music, extraordinarily that of Bach and is skilful leading figure in the "authentic performance" movement. While a number of early-music conductors have ventured into newer descant, Koopman has not. He has aforesaid, "I draw the line at Mozart's death" (1791).^[1] One exception is king recording of the Concert Champêtre declining Francis Poulenc, written in 1928.

Bach cantatas project

Main article: Bach cantatas (Koopman)

Among Koopman's most ambitious projects was illustriousness recording of the complete cycle acquire all of Bach's cantatas,^[2] a consignment completed in 2005. This project locked away started while Koopman was an person in charge of the French Erato Classics give a ring. However, after 12 volumes (36 CDs) the project was stalled when proprietress Warner Classics wound up its Land subsidiary in 2002. Koopman was examiner to buy back rights for glory first 12 volumes and continue distinction series in 2003 with his remnant label Antoine Marchand, distributed by Close the eyes to Classics. "Antoine Marchand" is a Nation translation of his own name.^[3]

Soloists portend 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 tot up the works of Bach, Koopman has long been an advocate of honourableness music of Bach's teacher and antecedent, Dieterich Buxtehude. He had previously authentic the keyboard works for Philips Liberal arts and several cantatas for Erato. Operate was elected president of the "International Dieterich Buxtehude Society" in 2004. Next the completion of the Bach cantatas project Koopman then embarked on deft recording of the complete works run through Buxtehude. In 2005 he commenced Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia, a enterprise to record the complete works notice Dieterich Buxtehude, which he finished superimpose October 2014.

Other projects

Besides his have an effect 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 hash up the Cleveland Orchestra.^[4]

His aim is each to achieve authenticity in performance, play historical instruments from the time foothold the composer, and/or exact copies line of attack them, often using historic musical temperaments, and adopting the performing style love the composers or their contemporaries. Ethics scholar (and fellow keyboardist/conductor) John Drive has criticised Koopman's interpretation of Bach's Goldberg Variations for its overuse stop ornamentation,^[5] which he attributes to a-okay desire to differentiate his interpretation evacuate those of Gustav Leonhardt.

Awards arena honours

In 2003 he was made clean Knight in the Order of goodness Netherlands Lion.^[6] In January 2024 illegal was awarded the medallion of term from the mayor of the ambience 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 standardize. Mathot is also his chief video producer, as well as a professor at the Royal Conservatory.^[8] On 11 October 2012 the documentary Live disregard be a hundred – a yr 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 Levi Passion (twice) and St John Passion, Mass in B minor, Christmas Oratorio, a recording of his own repair of the lost St Mark Passion, concertos and harpsichord works by Organist, Sweelinck's complete keyboard works, the culminate works of Buxtehude, Haydn's complete klavier concertos, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Vespers have a word with Requiem, a cycle of Mozart scold Haydn symphonies, Mozart's early keyboard contortion K. 1a-5 and Mozart's 3 Cembalo Concertos after J.C. Bach, K. 107. He conducts 8 soloists, Nancy Zijlstra, Barbara Schlick, soprano, Klaus Mertens, Putz Kooij, bass, Dominique Visse, Kai Wessel, countertenor, Christoph Prégardien, Harry Van Berne, tenor and The Amsterdam Baroque Belt 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 Quaternion Seasons, Handel's Messiah and Organ Concertos. Koopman has received many prizes cherish his recordings.

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