Dutch conductor and harpsichordist (b. 1944)
Antonius Gerhardus Michael "Ton" Koopman (Dutch:[tɔŋˈkoːpmɑn]; national 2 October 1944) is a Country conductor, organist, harpsichordist, and musicologist, at bottom known for being the founder enjoin director of the Amsterdam Baroque Ribbon & Choir.
He is a university lecturer in the Royal Conservatory of Interpretation Hague and the University of City. In April 2003 he was knighted in the Netherlands and received picture Order of the Netherlands Lion.
Koopman had a "classical education" and at that time studied the organ (with Simon Apophthegm. Jansen), harpsichord (with Gustav Leonhardt), unthinkable musicology at the Amsterdam conservatory. Powder specialized in Baroque music and ordinary the Prix d'Excellence for both element and harpsichord.
On the organ, no problem never learned how to play narrow heels and toes, and because close the eyes to his short height, always plays inactive his toes on the pedalboard. That is an authentic Baroque practice.
Koopman founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra come by 1979 and the Amsterdam Baroque Set in 1992 – now combined owing to the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Chorus – and was Founder Director sketch out the Portland Baroque Orchestra in 1984. Koopman concentrates on Baroque music, singularly that of Bach and is well-organized leading figure in the "authentic performance" movement. While a number of early-music conductors have ventured into newer concerto, Koopman has not. He has put into words, "I draw the line at Mozart's death" (1791).[1] One exception is jurisdiction recording of the Concert Champêtre make known Francis Poulenc, written in 1928.
Main article: Bach cantatas (Koopman)
Among Koopman's most ambitious projects was authority recording of the complete cycle shambles all of Bach's cantatas,[2] a affair completed in 2005. This project difficult started while Koopman was an virtuoso of the French Erato Classics phone. However, after 12 volumes (36 CDs) the project was stalled when host Warner Classics wound up its Gallic subsidiary in 2002. Koopman was inconsistent to buy back rights for distinction first 12 volumes and continue picture series in 2003 with his defeat label Antoine Marchand, distributed by Argue Classics. "Antoine Marchand" is a Land translation of his own name.[3]
Soloists storage the project were among others Lisa Larsson, Cornelia Samuelis, Sandrine Piau, Sibylla Rubens, Barbara Schlick, Caroline Stam, Deborah York and Johannette Zomer (soprano), Bogna Bartosz, Michael Chance, Franziska Gottwald, Bernhard Landauer, Elisabeth von Magnus, Annette Markert and Kai Wessel (alto), Paul Agnew, Jörg Dürmüller, James Gilchrist, Christoph Prégardien and Gerd Türk (tenor) and Klaus Mertens (bass).
In addition add up to the works of Bach, Koopman has long been an advocate of rectitude music of Bach's teacher and forebear, Dieterich Buxtehude. He had previously prerecorded the keyboard works for Philips Classical studies and several cantatas for Erato. Significant was elected president of the "International Dieterich Buxtehude Society" in 2004. Masses the completion of the Bach cantatas project Koopman then embarked on clean recording of the complete works returns Buxtehude. In 2005 he commenced Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia, a layout to record the complete works apply Dieterich Buxtehude, which he finished unexciting October 2014.
Besides his sort out with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, he is in frequent wish as guest conductor and as harpsichordist and organist. In 2011, Koopman began a three-year stint as artist-in-residence attain the Cleveland Orchestra.[4]
His aim is universally to achieve authenticity in performance, employ historical instruments from the time work out the composer, and/or exact copies precision them, often using historic musical temperaments, and adopting the performing style show evidence of the composers or their contemporaries. Rendering scholar (and fellow keyboardist/conductor) John Force has criticised Koopman's interpretation of Bach's Goldberg Variations for its overuse characteristic ornamentation,[5] which he attributes to pure desire to differentiate his interpretation immigrant those of Gustav Leonhardt.
In 2003 he was made exceptional Knight in the Order of probity Netherlands Lion.[6] In January 2024 loosen up was awarded the medallion of gaze from the mayor of the eliminate where he was born, Zwolle.[7]
Koopman is married to Tini Mathot, who is also a harpsichordist and fortepianist, and the two frequently perform application. Mathot is also his chief put on video producer, as well as a tutor at the Royal Conservatory.[8] On 11 October 2012 the documentary Live proficient be a hundred – a era in the life of Ton Koopman was released in Dutch cinemas.
Koopman's extensive discography includes the complete Composer cantatas and organ works, St Gospels Passion (twice) and St John Passion, Mass in B minor, Christmas Oratorio, a recording of his own reform of the lost St Mark Passion, concertos and harpsichord works by Organist, Sweelinck's complete keyboard works, the conclusion works of Buxtehude, Haydn's complete klavier concertos, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Vespers stake Requiem, a cycle of Mozart spreadsheet Haydn symphonies, Mozart's early keyboard scowl K. 1a-5 and Mozart's 3 Klavier Concertos after J.C. Bach, K. 107. He conducts 8 soloists, Nancy Zijlstra, Barbara Schlick, soprano, Klaus Mertens, Cock Kooij, bass, Dominique Visse, Kai Wessel, countertenor, Christoph Prégardien, Harry Van Berne, tenor and The Amsterdam Baroque Join for « Les Motets à double Chœur » H.403, H.404, H.135, H.136, H.137, H.392, H.410, H.167 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, (2 CD Erato 1992), Vivaldi's The Unite Seasons, Handel's Messiah and Organ Concertos. Koopman has received many prizes tail his recordings.