Patrick Van Goethem (born 1969) is a Belgian
countertenor
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, known for performing
early music
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. He took part in the project
Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia is a project to record the complete works (in Latin: opera omnia) of the Danish Baroque composer Dieterich Buxtehude, 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 ...
and 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 ...
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 ...
.
Early life
Patrick Van Goethem was born in
Aalst,
East Flanders
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, and began his education in the boys choir Schola Cantorum Cantate Domino under direction of Michaël Ghijs. He studied with Marie-Thérèse Maesen and Zeger Vandersteene, and later with
Paul Esswood
Paul Lawrence Vincent Esswood (born 6 June 1942) is an English countertenor and conductor. He is best known for his performance of Bach cantatas and the operas of Handel and Monteverdi. Along with his countrymen Alfred Deller and James Bowman, ...
,
Julia Hamari
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Professional career
Julia Hamari was born in Budapest where she re ...
and
Andreas Scholl
Andreas Scholl (born 10 November 1967) is a German countertenor, a male classical singer in the alto vocal range, specialising in Baroque music.
Born into a family of singers, Scholl was enrolled at the age of seven into the Kiedricher Chorbube ...
.
Career
Van Goethem has appeared mostly in festivals of
early music
Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750) or Ancient music (before 500 AD). Originating in Europe, early music is a broad Dates of classical ...
in Germany, France and the Netherlands.
Van Goethem sang Bach's
Magnificat
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with
Gustav Leonhardt
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Leo ...
and the
Netherlands Bach Society
The Netherlands Bach Society () is the oldest ensemble for Baroque music in the Netherlands, and possibly in the world. The ensemble was founded in 1921 in Naarden to perform Bach's ''St Matthew Passion'' on Good Friday and has performed the work ...
at the Amsterdam
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* Concertgebouw, Bruges, Belgium
* Concertgebouw de Vereeniging, Netherlands
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. With
Reinhard Goebel
Reinhard Goebel (; born 31 July 1952 in Siegen, West Germany) is a German conductor and violinist specialising in early music on authentic instruments and professor for historical performance at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Goebel received his firs ...
and the
Musica Antiqua Köln
Musica Antiqua Köln was an early music group that was founded in 1973 by Reinhard Goebel and fellow students from the Conservatory of Music in Cologne
Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhin ...
he sang in a
Bach cantata
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project at the Festival
Musica Antiqua Bruges
The MA Festival Brugge, short for the festival Musica Antiqua Bruges in Bruges, Belgium, is a festival of early music and historically informed performances, started in 1960. The program includes concerts, master classes, conferences, visits in t ...
. He appeared in Bach's ''
St Matthew Passion
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'' in the
Thomaskirche
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in Leipzig as part of the Bach Year 2000.
In 2004, he recorded Bach's ''
Ascension Oratorio
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'' and ''
Easter Oratorio
The ''Easter Oratorio'' (; ), 249, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach. He wrote an autograph score in Leipzig in 1738 under this title, matching his ''Christmas Oratorio'' and '' Ascension Oratorio''. Bach had already composed the work in 1 ...
'' with the
Bach Collegium Japan
Bach Collegium Japan (BCJ) is composed of an orchestra and a chorus specializing in Baroque music, playing on period instruments. It was founded in 1990 by Masaaki Suzuki with the purpose of introducing Japanese audiences to European Baroque musi ...
and
Masaaki Suzuki
is a Japanese organist, harpsichordist, conductor, and the founder and music director of the Bach Collegium Japan. With this ensemble he is recording the complete choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach for the Swedish label BIS Records, for whi ...
, with concerts in Tokyo and Kobe. In 2005 he sang Bach's
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In 2009, he recorded the work live in Warsaw with Frans Brüggen, the Cappella Amsterdam, the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Dorothee Mields,
Johannette Zomer
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Career
After having worked as a microbiology technician, Johannette Zomer shifted gears in 1990 and studied voice at the Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam i ...
,
Jan Kobow
Jan Kobow (born 1966) is a German classical tenor in concert, Lied, and Baroque opera.
Professional career
Jan Kobow was born and raised in Berlin. He was a singer and soloist of the ''Staats- und Domchor, Berlin'' with Christian Grube. He studi ...
and
Peter Kooy
Peter Kooij (or, internationally Kooy, born 1954, in Soest) is a Dutch bass singer who specializes in baroque music.
Biography
Kooij started his musical career at 6 years as a choir boy. However he started his musical studies as a violin stude ...
.
Van Goethem has taken part in the project
Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia is a project to record the complete works (in Latin: opera omnia) of the Danish Baroque composer Dieterich Buxtehude, 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 ...
and 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 ...
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 ...
, and including a European concert tour in 2007.
He sang in Handel's ''
Saul
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'' with Peter Neumann and the
Collegium Cartusianum at the
Göttingen International Handel Festival
The Göttingen International Handel Festival (German, ''Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen'') is a German festival of baroque music, based in Göttingen, Germany. The festival was established in 1919 by Oskar Hagen, art historian and f ...
. With the
Collegium Vocale Gent
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Founding and program
Collegium Vocale Gent was founded ...
and the
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend, he sang Purcell's ''
Dido and Aeneas
''Dido and Aeneas'' (Z. 626) is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque music, Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate. The dates of the composition and first performance of the opera are uncer ...
'' at the Amsterdam
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* Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Concertgebouw, Bruges, Belgium
* Concertgebouw de Vereeniging, Netherlands
{{disambiguation
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. He appeared as Cyrus in Handel's ''
Belshazzar
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'' with
Jürgen Budday
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at the Maulbronner Schlosskonzerte.
With conductor
Enoch zu Guttenberg
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he performed in
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist, impresario of Baroque music and Roman Catholic priest. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lif ...
's
Gloria
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Arts and entertainment Music Christian liturgy and music
* Gloria in excelsis Deo, the Greater Doxology, a hymn of praise
* Gloria Patri, the Lesser Doxology, a short hymn of praise
** Gloria (Handel)
** Gloria (Jenkins ...
and ''Juditha Triumphans'' at the
Rheingau Musik Festival
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in 2007.
On the opera stage, he took part in the premiere of the opera ''Trans-Warhol'' of Philippe Schoeller in Geneva in 2007. Van Goethem founded the Baroque ensemble The Flanders Baroque Consort. He is a vocal teacher at the Music Academy of
Middelkerke
Middelkerke () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders, on the North Sea, west of Ostend. The municipality comprises the villages of Leffinge, Lombardsijde, Mannekensvere, Middelkerke proper, Schore, Sint-Pieters-K ...
.
References
External links
*
Short profile and discographyVan Goethem sings at the Internationale Bachdagen Brugge 2011
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1969 births
Living people
People from Aalst, Belgium
Operatic countertenors
Belgian performers of early music