Holland Boys Choir

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The Holland Boys Choir was a Dutch boys' choir founded as Stadsknapenkoor Elburg in 1984 by the Dutch conductor and Bach expert Pieter Jan Leusink . From 2016 onwards, Leusink gave up the boys' choir in favor of a mixed adult choir when performing baroque music.

The choir was located in the medieval St. Nicholas Church in the small Dutch town of Elburg . He cultivated his own musical style, which was based on the English choral tradition. Leusink's original goal was to perform Johann Sebastian Bach's music with male and boy voices as far as possible. He changed this goal around 2016 and from then on performed Bach's music with a mixed adult choir.

The boys' choir performed regularly on Dutch radio and television. The choir had recorded numerous CDs and DVDs. Due to the CD recordings of Bach's St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244) and the 60 CDS recording of all Bach church cantatas together with the Netherlands Bach Collegium , the choir also gained international fame.

The choir performed Bach's St. Matthew Passion in annual concert series. He gave a public summer and a Christmas concert series every year. He often performed with the pianists Jan Vayne and Louis van Dijk . The choir has made concert tours to France (Paris, Notre Dame), England (Great Cathedral Tour and St. Martin-in-the-Fields) and Latvia (Riga Cathedral). The choir was also allowed to perform in front of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands .

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  1. ↑ The article is based on the article of the same name on the Dutch Wikipedia. The version history and the article of the Dutch WP as of September 22, 2019 are integrated into the German WP article.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Article of the same name Holland Boys Choir of the Dutch Wikipedia.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Aryeh Oron: Holland Boys Choir (Choir) at Bach Cantatas, 2001 (English) Aryeh Oron: Holland Boys Choir.
  4. ↑ a b Frits De Klerk: Leusinks uitvoering kende ook een lichtpuntje. In: kunst en cuultur (blog). March 8, 2016, accessed September 22, 2019 (Dutch).
  5. ↑ For the criticism of this project “recording of all Bach church cantatas” from 1999/2000 see the WP article “Netherlands Bach Collegium”.