Peter Kooy

Peter Kooij or (internationally often) Kooy (born 1954, in Soest) is a Dutch bass singer specialized 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 student. He came back to singing, with tuition from Max van Egmond at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam which led in 1980 to the award of the diploma for solo performance.[1]

His international career started in 1981 under the direction of Philippe Herreweghe, with La Chapelle Royale and the Collegium Vocale Gent, with whom he interpreted mainly Johann Sebastian Bach,[2] and also performed Henri Dumont, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Heinrich Schütz and Jean Gilles.[3] From the mid-1990s much of his career was dedicated to the recording of Bach's complete cantatas with the Bach Collegium Japan, directed by Masaaki Suzuki.

In 2002 he founded together with Monika Frimmer, Christa Bonhoff and Dantes Diwiak a quartet Tanto Canto to sing rarely performed music a cappella, with piano or with ensemble. The quartet recorded in 2005 excerpts from the collections Augsburger Tafel-Confect (short for: Ohren-vergnügendes und Gemüth-ergötzendes Tafel-Confect, in English: Augsburg Table Confectionery, Pleasuring the Ears and Delightful to the Soul) of the composers Valentin Rathgeber and Johann Caspar Seyfert.[4][5]

Kooij has been teaching singing at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague since September 2005.

Recordings

With Philippe Herreweghe

With Masaaki Suzuki

Solo recitals

References

  1. ↑ booklet of CD HMC 901365 (Bach Cantatas for bass BWV 56, 82 & 128)
  2. ↑ Kooij is known for his interpretations of Bach bass arias (e.g. BWV 39, BWV 73, BWV 243, BWV 245, and BWV 248).
  3. ↑ He recorded Jean Gilles' Requiem (with (Agnès Mellon, Howard Crook, and Hervé Lamy).
  4. ↑ "Rathgeber: Tafel-confect". arkivmusic.com. 2005. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
  5. ↑ "Rathgeber (1682-1750) Augsburgisches Tafel-Confect". musicweb-international.com. 2006. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, February 11, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.