Ton Koopman
Ton Koopman (born October 2, 1944 in Zwolle / Netherlands ) is a Dutch conductor , organist , harpsichordist and university professor .
life and work
Ton Koopman studied musicology in Amsterdam , organ with Simon C. Jansen and harpsichord with Gustav Leonhardt . In 1969 he founded his first ensemble, Musica Antiqua Amsterdam . Ten years later the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra followed , in 1992 the Amsterdam Baroque Choir and thus the Ensemble Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir came into being .
Koopman is mainly devoted to baroque music and is a representative of historical performance practice . Among other things, he recorded all of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas between 1994 and 2005 . The soloists in this project included Lisa Larsson , Sibylla Rubens , Barbara Schlick , Cornelia Samuelis and Caroline Stam as sopranos ; Michael Chance , Bernhard Landauer , Elisabeth von Magnus , Annette Markert , Bogna Bartosz and Andreas Scholl as alto voices ; Paul Agnew , Lothar Odinius , Jörg Dürmüller and Christoph Prégardien as tenors ; as well as Klaus Mertens and Ekkehard Abele as basses .
Koopman has also appeared as a guest conductor of well-known orchestras in Europe, North America and Japan. Since 2004 he has been Professor of Musicology at the University of Leiden . In the following year he started the project “Dieterich Buxtehude - Opera Omnia”, a recording of the complete works of Dieterich Buxtehude . In addition, he was elected President of the International Dieterich Buxtehude Society in 2004 and President of the Bach Archive in Leipzig in 2019 .
A third “big B”, alongside Buxtehude and Bach, whose work Koopman prefers to dedicate himself to, is Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber . Since January 2016 he has also been teaching as an honorary professor at the Lübeck University of Music .
Awards
- 2012: Buxtehude Prize of the City of Lübeck .
- 2014: Bach Prize of the Royal Academy of Music .
Individual evidence
- ↑ International Dieterich Buxtehude Society ( Memento from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ Ton Koopman becomes President of the Leipzig Bach Archive on MDR Kultur , May 13, 2019.
- ↑ Gerhard Rohde: Master of the three great B. Bach, Biber, Buxtehude: The organist and conductor Ton Koopman is celebrating his seventieth birthday today. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 2, 2014. p. 15.
- ^ Ton Koopman receives honorary professorship , communication dated January 21, 2016, accessed on February 25, 2016.
- ^ Royal Academy of Music: Ton Koopman awarded Bach Prize
Web links
- Works by and about Ton Koopman in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography of Ton Koopman on his website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koopman, sound |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch conductor, organist, harpsichordist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zwolle |