Harry Van Der Kamp
Harry van der Kamp is generally viewed as one of the leading Dutch bass singers of his generation. He has sung 30 or more operatic roles, but has tended to favor ensemble and solo repertory, focusing largely on music written during the Renaissance era up through the eighteenth century. Yet he has also participated in many modern works, such as Alexander Knaifel's opera Alice in Wonderland, in which he sang four roles.
Van der Kamp was born in Kampen, Holland, in 1947. His first advanced studies were in law and psychology, but he eventually decided to enroll in music study at the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatory. There his voice teachers were Elisabeth Cooymans and Max van Egmond. Later he took vocal instruction from the well-known English countertenor Alfred Deller and from French baritone Pierre Bernac. He also studied with Herman Woltman (1974).
During his student years van der Kamp sang with Cappella Amsterdam, under Jan Boeke. He left that ensemble in 1975, the year after he joined the Nederlands Kamerkoor, a group he would remain with for 20 years, serving as its artistic advisor from 1980-1987. He made a number of notable recordings as a member of this distinguished ensemble, in particular of several J.S. Bach cantatas, with conductors Frans Brueggen, Ton Koopman, and Sigiswald Kuijken.
In 1984 van der Kamp founded the vocal ensemble Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, its range of repertory encompassing both early and modern music. During the 1980s and 1990s he also forged a major career in opera and concert works. Van der Kamp has appeared in and recorded wide-ranging operatic repertory, from the well-known -- Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Die Zauberflöte -- to the little-known and modern -- Stefan Wolpe's Zeus und Elida. He has also sung and recorded such solo/choral staples as Verdi's Requiem and Haydn's Creation. In 1994 van der Kamp was appointed professor of vocal studies at Bremen's Hochschule für Musik, a post he still held in 2006. He also served as a visiting professor of vocal studies at the Helsinki-based Sibelius Academy in 1997-1998.
In the new century van der Kamp remains fairly active, both in the concert hall and on recordings. His later recordings include the NMC CD of Klaas de Vries' oratorio A King, Riding (2004) and the CPO issue of Carlo Gesualdo's madrigals, Books I-III (2005).
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Discography
16 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Sweelinck: The Complete Psalms
Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, Lee Santana, Bernard Winsemius, Harry Van Der Kamp
Classical - Released by Glossa on 5 Mar 2012
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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck : Cantiones sacrae (Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam - Harry van der Kamp)
Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by Glossa on 27 Jun 2011
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Sweelinck, J.P.: Vocal Music (The Secular Vocal Works - Chansons, Italian Rimes and Madrigals, French Rimes) ( Anonymous - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck - Giovanni Nanino)
Music by vocal ensembles - Released by Glossa on 1 Jan 2009
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Lacorcia: Madrigals-Musica Vulcanica
Classical - Released by Sony Classical on 15 Mar 2006
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Bach: Cantates pour l'Épiphanie: BWV 72, 81, 155 & 156
Montreal Baroque, Eric Milnes, Monika Mauch, Franziska Gottwald, Charles Daniels, Harry Van Der Kamp
Classical - Released by ATMA Classique on 1 Nov 2013
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Bach, J.S.: Cantates de la Nativité Vol. 4 BWV 61, BWV 122, BWV 123, BWV 182
Montreal Baroque, Eric Milnes, Monika Mauch, Matthew White, Charles Daniels, Harry Van Der Kamp
Classical - Released by ATMA Classique on 1 Oct 2008
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Gesualdo: Madrigali, Books 1-3
Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, Nele Gramss, Alexander Weimann, Harry Van Der Kamp, Lee Santana
Classical - Released by CPO on 20 Sep 2005
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Scarlatti: Vespro della Beata Vergine
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Harry Van Der Kamp, Roberto Fernandez de Larrinoa, Menno Van Delft
Classical - Released by ATMA Classique on 3 May 2010
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Cavalieri: Lamentationes Hieremiae Prophetae cum Responsoriis
Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, Harry Van Der Kamp
Classical - Released by Sony Classical on 23 Sep 2002
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Lied der Liebe
Nele Gramss, Movimento, Harry Van Der Kamp
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Christophorus on 30 Sep 2013
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Musiche Concertate 1619
Markus Brutscher, Harry Van Der Kamp, La Capella Ducale, Cologne Musica Fiata, Roland Wilson
Chamber Music - Released by CPO on 6 Sep 2011
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Litaneien, Motetten, Psalmen
Classical - Released by Sony Classical on 18 Jul 2005
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Cantates profanes
Harry Van Der Kamp, Barbara Schlick, Kleine Konzert, Das, Hermann Max
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by CapriccioNR on 5 Apr 1994
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Österreich: Psalms & Cantatas
Ulrike Hofbauer, Harry Van Der Kamp, Hans-Jörg Mammel, Bremen Weser-Renaissance, Manfred Cordes
Classical - Released by CPO on 2 Jun 2015
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Bach: Cantates pour l'Épiphanie: BWV 72, 81, 155 & 156
Montreal Baroque, Eric Milnes, Monika Mauch, Franziska Gottwald, Charles Daniels, Harry Van Der Kamp
Classical - Released by ATMA Classique on 1 Nov 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Rolle, J.H.: Tod Abels (Der) [Opera]
Opera - Released by CapriccioNR on 1 Jan 1998
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo