Johannette Zomer (born March 13, 1964)
is a
Dutch classical concert and
opera
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soprano
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.
Career
After having worked as a
microbiology
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technician, Johannette Zomer shifted gears in 1990 and studied voice at the
Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam in Amsterdam with
Charles van Tassel, where she received her Performance Diploma in 1997.
As a Baroque specialist, she has worked with
Frans Brüggen
Franciscus ("Frans") Jozef Brüggen (30 October 1934 – 13 August 2014) was a Dutch Conducting, conductor, recorder player and baroque flautist.
Biography
Born in Amsterdam, Brüggen was the youngest of the nine children of August Brüggen, a t ...
,
Reinhard Goebel,
Philippe Herreweghe
Philippe Maria François Herreweghe, Knight Herreweghe (born 2 May 1947) is a Belgian conductor and choirmaster.
Herreweghe founded La Chapelle Royale and Collegium Vocale Gent and is renowned as a conductor, with a repertoire ranging from ...
,
René Jacobs
René Jacobs (born 30 October 1946) is a Belgian musician. He came to fame as a countertenor, but later in his career he became known as a conductor of baroque and classical opera.
Biography Countertenor
Born in Ghent, Jacobs began his musi ...
,
Sigiswald Kuijken
Sigiswald Kuijken (; born 16 February 1944) is a Belgian violinist, violist, and conductor known for playing on period and original instruments.
Biography
Kuijken was born in Dilbeek, near Brussels. He was a member of the Alarius Ensemble o ...
,
Paul McCreesh
Paul McCreesh (born 24 May 1960) is an English conductor.
Paul McCreesh is the founder and artistic director of the Gabrieli Consort & Players. With them he has performed in major concert halls and festivals across the world. He has been the ...
and
Jos van Veldhoven. She took part in the project of
Ton Koopman
Antonius Gerhardus Michael "Ton" Koopman (; born 2 October 1944) is a Dutch conductor, organist, harpsichordist, and musicologist, primarily known for being the founder and director of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir.
He is a professor ...
to record the complete vocal works of
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (German: Help:IPA/Standard German, �joːhan zeˈbasti̯an baχ ( – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque music, Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety ...
with the
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir is a Dutch early-music group based in Amsterdam.
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir was created in two stages by the conductor, organist and harpsichordist Ton Koopman. He founded the Amsterdam Bar ...
and is engaged also in the ongoing project
Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia to record the complete works of
Dieterich Buxtehude
Dieterich Buxtehude (; born Diderich Hansen Buxtehude, ; – 9 May 1707) was a Danish composer and organist of the Baroque music, Baroque period, whose works are typical of the North German organ school. As a composer who worked in various vocal ...
. She has also collaborated with the ensemble
Florilegium
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.
As a recitalists she has performed with the pianist , the
fortepiano
A fortepiano is an early piano. In principle, the word "fortepiano" can designate any piano dating from the invention of the instrument by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1700 up to the early 19th century. Most typically, however, it is used to ref ...
specialist and the
theorbo
The theorbo is a plucked string instrument of the lute family, with an extended neck that houses the second pegbox. Like a lute, a theorbo has a curved-back sound box with a flat top, typically with one or three sound holes decorated with rose ...
player Fred Jacobs.
She has appeared on the opera stage since 1996 as Pamina in Mozart's ''
The Magic Flute
''The Magic Flute'' (, ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. It is a ''Singspiel'', a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue. The work premiered on ...
'', as Euridice both in Monteverdi’s ''
L'Orfeo
''L'Orfeo'' (Stattkus-Verzeichnis, SV 318) (), or ''La favola d'Orfeo'' , is a late Renaissance music, Renaissance/early Baroque music, Baroque ''favola in musica'', or List of operas by Claudio Monteverdi, opera, by Claudio Monteverdi, with a li ...
'' and Haydn’s ''
L'anima del filosofo'', and as Mélisande in Debussy’s ''
Pelléas et Mélisande''.
In 2007 she performed at the
Tanglewood Festival Bach's ''
Mass in B Minor'' with the
Netherlands Bach Society, conducted by
Jos van Veldhoven.
Mass in B Minor
Netherlands Bach Society, 2007
References
External links
Johannette Zomer
website
Entries for recordings by Johannette Zomer
on WorldCat
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Johannette Zomer
on Presto Classical, short bio, recordings and reviews
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1964 births
Living people
Dutch operatic sopranos
Conservatorium van Amsterdam alumni
20th-century Dutch women opera singers
21st-century Dutch women opera singers