Jan van der Crabben (born 1964) is a
Belgian baritone
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singer.
Born in 1964 in
Genk,
Belgium
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, van der Crabben studied music at the
Etterbeek Academy under the direction of Aquiles Delle Vigne and subsequently at the
Royal Conservatory of Brussels
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. He has performed in Belgium and internationally and has worked with the likes of
Pierre Bartholomée
Pierre Georges Édouard Bartholomée (Brussels, 5 August 1937) is a Belgian conductor and composer.
Career
He began his musical studies at the age of six with piano lessons. Later on he graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where he ...
, Shalev Ad-El,
Andrew Lawrence-King
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Career
Lawrence-King received an organ scholarship to Selwyn College, Cambridge, following on his work as head chorister at t ...
, and
Alexander Rahbari
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. He has recorded multiple CDs of the
baroque
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and
classical music of
Johann Sebastian Bach
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,
Willem de Fesch
Willem de Fesch (, 1687, Alkmaar – 3 January 1761) was a virtuoso Dutch violone player and composer.
The pupil of Karel Rosier, who was a Vice- Kapellmeister at Bonn, de Fesch later married his daughter, Maria Anna Rosier.
De Fesch was ...
,
George Frideric Händel
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,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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,
Franz Schubert
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, and others.
He has regularly collaborated in the field of
historically informed performance
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with
Sigiswald Kuijken's
La Petite Bande. In 2005 he appeared with them in a concert of
Bach cantatas at the
Rheingau Musik Festival
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in the
Eibingen Abbey, together with
Siri Thornhill,
Petra Noskaiová
Petra Noskaiová is a Slovak classical mezzo-soprano, active in the field of Baroque music.
Career
Noskaiová studied music at the conservatory of Bratislava from 1988 to 1994 and voice with Ružena Illenbergerová. She continued studies with ...
and
Christoph Genz
Christoph Genz (born 1 March 1971 in Erfurt) is a German tenor in opera and concert.
Career
Christoph Genz was a member of the Thomanerchor. He studied music at King's College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the King's College Choir. He s ...
. He recorded in 2000 Bach's four short
Missae with
Patrick Peire Patrick may refer to:
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and the
Capella Brugensis
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.
He was awarded prizes for best "Interpretation of a French Song" and best "Contemporary Music" at the 1990 Concours International d'Oratorio et de Lied in Clermont-Ferrand and was a semi-finalist at the 1996
Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels.
References
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1964 births
Belgian male singers
Living people
Musicians from Ghent
Belgian opera singers
Royal Conservatory of Brussels alumni