Johannette Zomer
The Dutch soprano Johannette Zomer has specialized in Baroque music and has often collaborated with the most forward-looking performers and conductors in the field. She has also given recitals of mainstream and contemporary material. Zomer was born in the Netherlands in 1972. Her entire family was musical, and she started taking flute lessons at eight. At first, however, she opted for a career as an analyst in a microbiology lab, singing in a choir on the side. A fellow chorister took her aside and urged her to develop her vocal gift, and she enrolled at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, studying with Charles van Tassel. After receiving her diploma in 1997, Zomer began to find places in concerts led by top Baroque specialists including Reinhard Goebel, Thomas Hengelbrock, Gustav Leonhardt, Frans Brüggen, Ton Koopman, and Philippe Herreweghe. Her own recitals have been accompanied by fortepianist Arthur Schoonderwoerd or theorbo player Fred Jacobs. Zomer made her operatic debut as Tebaldo in Verdi's Don Carlo at the Nederlandse Reisopera in 1996 and has since regularly appeared in operatic roles. In 2013, she formed her own group, the Tulipa Consort, which has appeared at the Göttinger Handel Festspiele in Germany.
Zomer made her recording debut with Jacobs in 2003 with Splendore di Roma, an album of early Baroque songs. That album was recorded for the Dutch label Channel Classics; Zomer has continued to record there and for the French label Alpha, which specialized in boutique recordings encompassing music and visual art. Her album JUST Bach, featuring Baroque oboist Bart Schneemann, appeared on Channel Classics in 2017; the two had earlier joined forces on Love & Madness, a collection of Handel arias. This was followed in 2018 by Symphony While the Swans Come Forward, a collection of arias and songs by Henry Purcell on which Zomer was joined by the Dutch Baroque orchestra La Sfera Armoniosa.
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Discography
13 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres
Johannette Zomer, La Sfera Armoniosa, Anne Grimm
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 9 May 2006
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Kapsberger : "La Villanella"
L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar, Johannette Zomer, Pino de Vittorio
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 2 Aug 2001
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Symphony While the Swans Come Forward (Live Recording)
Johannette Zomer, Mike Fentross, La Sfera Armoniosa
Classical - Released by Challenge Classics on 1 Jun 2018
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Bach: Cantatas
Florilegium, Johannette Zomer, Ashley Solomon
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 1 Jan 2007
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Vivaldi: Laudate!
Johannette Zomer, Tulipa Consort
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 20 May 2016
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Splendore di Roma
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 9 Sep 2003
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 5, K. 175
Arthur Schoonderwoerd, Johannette Zomer, Cristofori
Classical - Released by Accent on 10 Feb 2014
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Handel: Arias. Love and Madness
MUSICA AMPHION, Johannette Zomer, Bart Schneemann
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 1 Jan 2009
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Kennst du das Land ?
Arthur Schoonderwoerd, Johannette Zomer
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 1 Jan 2003
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
L'esprit galant
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 1 Jan 2007
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Van Eyck: Pleasure Garden
Johannette Zomer, Ensemble Armonia e Invenzione, Luis Beduschi
Classical - Released by Eloquentia on 23 Jun 2011
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Music for a While
Johannette Zomer, Angelo Van Den Burg, Marcel Booij
Classical - Released by Traxfree on 11 Dec 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
With Endless Tears
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 10 Nov 2009
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo