Patrick Van Goethem

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Patrick Van Goethem
Born1969 (1969)
Aalst
OccupationCountertenor
OrganizationThe Flanders Baroque Consort

Patrick Van Goethem (born 1969) is a Belgian countertenor, known for performing early music.

Early life[]

Patrick Van Goethem was born in Aalst, East Flanders, and began his education in the boys choir Schola Cantorum Cantate Domino under direction of Michaël Ghijs. He studied with Marie-Thérèse Maesen and Zeger Vandersteene, and later with Paul Esswood, Julia Hamari and Andreas Scholl.

Career[]

Van Goethem has appeared mostly in festivals of early music in Germany, France and the Netherlands.[1] Van Goethem sang Bach's Magnificat with Gustav Leonhardt and the Netherlands Bach Society at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. With Reinhard Goebel and the Musica Antiqua Köln he sang in a Bach cantata project at the Festival Musica Antiqua Bruges. He appeared in Bach's St Matthew Passion in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig as part of the Bach Year 2000.[1] In 2004, he recorded Bach's Ascension Oratorio and Easter Oratorio with the Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki, with concerts in Tokyo and Kobe. In 2005 he sang Bach's Mass in B minor with the Washington Bach Consort and J. Reilly Lewis.[1] In 2009, he recorded the work live in Warsaw with Frans Brüggen, the , the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Dorothee Mields, Johannette Zomer, Jan Kobow and Peter Kooy.[2]

Van Goethem has taken part in the project Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia of Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir to record the complete works of Dieterich Buxtehude, and including a European concert tour in 2007.[1][3][4] He sang in Handel's Saul with Peter Neumann and the at the Göttingen International Handel Festival. With the Collegium Vocale Gent and the , conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend, he sang Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. He appeared as Cyrus in Handel's Belshazzar with Jürgen Budday at the Maulbronner Schlosskonzerte.[1] With conductor Enoch zu Guttenberg he performed in Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria and Juditha Triumphans at the Rheingau Musik Festival in 2007.[5]

On the opera stage, he took part in the premiere of the opera Trans-Warhol of Philippe Schoeller in Geneva in 2007.[6][7] Van Goethem founded the Baroque ensemble The Flanders Baroque Consort. He is a vocal teacher at the Music Academy of Middelkerke.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Patrick Van Goethem (Countertenor)". bach-cantatas.com. 2007. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
  2. ^ "Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor (Live in Warsaw)". Sears-Classical. 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
  3. ^ "Buxtehude: Opera Omnia Vol 7 – Vocal Works Vol 3 / Koopman, et al". ArkivMusic. 2008. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
  4. ^ "Buxtehude: Opera Omnia Vol 11 – Vocal Works Vol 4 / Koopman, et al". ArkivMusic. 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
  5. ^ "Enoch zu Guttenberg Konzertbilanz 2006/2007" (in German). enochzuguttenberg.de. 2010. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
  6. ^ "Patrick Van Goethem Countertenor". artistnation.org. 2009. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
  7. ^ "Cynthia Odier, un flux affectif pour Andy Warhol" (in French). swissinfo. 10 March 2007. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
  8. ^ "Baroque Ensemble Il Gardellino & Patrick Van Goethem". International Bach Chamber Music Festival, Riga, Latvia. 2010. Retrieved 17 July 2010.

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