Jaap ter Linden

Jaap ter Linden (born April 10, 1947 in Rotterdam ) is a Dutch cellist, gambist and conductor.

Life

Jaap ter Linden, one of the pioneers of historical performance practice , began his career in the early 1960s as a cellist in the newly founded Dutch Chamber Orchestra under Szymon Goldberg . Shortly afterwards he founded the chamber ensemble “Musica da Camera” with Ton Koopman and the baroque violinist Lucy van Dael . He was also one of the early cellists of the Musica Antiqua Cologne , played in The English Concert and in the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. In 2000 he founded the “Mozart Academy Amsterdam”, with which he recorded all of the Mozart symphonies. As a guest conductor, he has led numerous orchestras that play on original instruments, such as the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen , the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO) and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. He has also directed operas such as Henry Purcell ’s King Arthur and Christoph Willibald Gluck ’s Iphigénie en Aulide .

Further chamber music partners were the pianist Ronald Brautigam , the violinists Elizabeth Wallfisch , Andrew Manze , Simon Standage and John Holloway and the harpsichordists Richard Egarr and Lars Ulrik Mortensen . With Egarr he recorded Bach's sonatas for viol and harpsichord, with Egarr and Manze Bach's violin sonatas. With Mortensen and Holloway, he recorded Dietrich Buxtehude's trio sonatas for violin, viol and basso continuo and with Ton Koopman the cello sonatas by Pieter Hellendaal . Ter Linden also recorded the suites for solo cello (Johann Sebastian Bach).

In addition to various visiting professorships, he teaches at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague , at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam and at the University of Early Music in Würzburg.

Web links

• Works by and about Jaap ter Linden in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of ter Lindens