Peter Kooij (or, internationally Kooy, born 1954, in Soest) is a Dutch bass singer who specializes in

baroque music Baroque music ( or ) refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transiti ...

Biography

Kooij started his musical career at 6 years as a choir boy. However he started his musical studies as a violin student. He came back to singing, with tuition from

Max van Egmond Max van Egmond (born 1 February 1936 in Semarang) is a Dutch bass and baritone singer. He has focused on oratorio and Lied and is known for singing works of Johann Sebastian Bach. He was one of the pioneers of historically informed performance of B ...

at the

Sweelinck Conservatorium The Conservatorium van Amsterdam (CvA) is a Dutch conservatoire of music located in Amsterdam. This school is the music division of the Amsterdam University of the Arts, the city's vocational university of arts. The Conservatorium van Amsterdam ...

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which led in 1980 to the award of the diploma for solo performance. His international career started in 1981 under the direction of

Philippe Herreweghe Philippe Maria François Herreweghe, Knight Herreweghe (born 2 May 1947) is a Belgian conductor and choirmaster. Herreweghe founded La Chapelle Royale and Collegium Vocale Gent and is renowned as a conductor, with a repertoire ranging from Rena ...

, with

La Chapelle Royale La Chapelle Royale is a French ensemble of baroque music. History La Chapelle Royale was founded in 1977 in Paris by the Belgian conductor Philippe Herreweghe. It takes its name from the Chapelle royale of the French kings. The initial vocation ...

and the

Collegium Vocale Gent Collegium Vocale Gent is a Belgian musical ensemble of vocalists and supporting instrumentalists, founded by Philippe Herreweghe. The group is dedicated to historically informed performance. Founding and program Collegium Vocale Gent was founded ...

, with whom he interpreted mainly

Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard w ...

, and also performed

Henri Dumont Henri Dumont (also Henry Du Mont, originally Henry de Thier) (1610 – 8 May 1684) was a baroque composer of the French school, born in the Southern Netherlands. Life Dumont was born to Henry de Thier and Elisabeth Orban in Looz (Borgloon). The ...

Marc-Antoine Charpentier Marc-Antoine Charpentier (; 1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. One of his most famous works is the main theme from the prelude of his ''Te Deum'', ''Marche en rondeau''. This theme is still us ...

Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Baptiste Lully ( , , ; born Giovanni Battista Lulli, ; – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, guitarist, violinist, and dancer who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he ...

Heinrich Schütz Heinrich Schütz (; 6 November 1672) was a German early Baroque composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as one of the most important composers of the 17th century. He ...

and Jean Gilles. From the mid-1990s much of his career was dedicated to the recording of Bach's complete

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s with the

Bach Collegium Japan Bach Collegium Japan (BCJ) is composed of an orchestra and a chorus specializing in Baroque music, playing on period instruments. It was founded in 1990 by Masaaki Suzuki with the purpose of introducing Japanese audiences to European Baroque music ...

, directed by

Masaaki Suzuki is a Japanese organist, harpsichordist and conductor, and the founder and music director of the Bach Collegium Japan. With this ensemble he is recording the complete choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach for the Swedish label BIS Records, for whi ...

. In 2002 he founded together with

Monika Frimmer Monika Frimmer (born 1955) is a German soprano in opera and concert. Career Monika Frimmer studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover in Hannover. She studied further in master-classes and worked with Birgit Nilsson, Elisabeth S ...

Christa Bonhoff Christa Bonhoff is a German contralto and mezzo-soprano singer. Early life Bonhoff was born in Westphalia. Education Bonhoff studied singing at the Hochschule für Musik Hamburg with Annie Schoonus. Career Already as a student she joine ...

and

Dantes Diwiak Dantes Diwiak (born in Slovenia) is a classical tenor, who grew up and has worked mostly in Germany. Career Dantes Diwiak studied singing with Klaus Kirchner and opera at the Musikhochschule Hannover with Theo Altmeyer. He took master classe ...

a quartet ''Tanto Canto'' to sing rarely performed music

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, with piano or with ensemble. The quartet recorded in 2005 excerpts from the collections ''Augsburger Tafel-Confect'' (short for: ''Ohren-vergnügendes und Gemüth-ergötzendes Tafel-Confect'', in English: ''Augsburg Table Confectionery, Pleasuring the Ears and Delightful to the Soul'') of the composers

Valentin Rathgeber Johann Valentin Rathgeber (3 April 1682 – 2 June 1750) was a German composer, organist and choirmaster of the Baroque Era. Life Rathgeber was born in Oberelsbach. His father, an organist, gave him his first music lessons. At the beginning o ...

and Johann Caspar Seyfert. Kooij has been teaching singing at the

Royal Conservatory of The Hague The Royal Conservatoire ( nl, Koninklijk Conservatorium, KC) is a conservatoire in The Hague, providing higher education in music and dance. The conservatoire was founded by King William I in 1826, making it the oldest conservatoire in the Netherl ...

since September 2005.

Recordings

With Philippe Herreweghe

* 1981 : ''Motets pour la Chapelle du roy'', Henri Dumont (Chapelle Royale) * 1985 : ''Motet Pour l'Offertoire de la Messe Rouge'' H.434 and ''Miserere'' H.219, Marc-Antoine Charpentier (Chapelle Royale) * 1985 : ''Grands Motets'', Jean-Baptiste Lully (Chapelle Royale) * 1985 : ''

St Matthew Passion The ''St Matthew Passion'' (german: Matthäus-Passion, links=-no), BWV 244, is a '' Passion'', a sacred oratorio written by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1727 for solo voices, double choir and double orchestra, with libretto by Picander. It sets ...

'', BWV 244, Johann Sebastian Bach (Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale) * 1987 : ''Musikalische Exequien'', Heinrich Schütz (Chapelle Royale) * 1988 : ''Johannes Passion'', BWV 245, Johann Sebastian Bach (Collegium Vocale, Orchestre de la Chapelle Royale) *1988 :

Requiem A Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead ( la, Missa pro defunctis) or Mass of the dead ( la, Missa defunctorum), is a Mass of the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, ...

, Gabriel Fauré (version 1893) (Chapelle Royale, Ensemble Musique Oblique) * 1989 : ''Weihnachts-Oratorium'', BWV 248, Johann Sebastian Bach (Collegium Vocale) * 1989 : ''Les Lamentations de Jérémie'', Roland de Lassus (Ensemble Vocal Européen de la Chapelle Royale) * 1990 : Cantata ''Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats'', BWV 42, Johann Sebastian Bach (Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale) * 1990 : Magnificat, BWV 243, and Cantata ''Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott'', BWV 80, Johann Sebastian Bach (Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale) * 1990 :

Missa Missa may refer to: * Mass (liturgy) * Mass (music), a choral composition that sets liturgical text to music ** Missa brevis ** Missa solemnis (explains the term and lists several works) * Miss A, a Korean girl group * ''Missa pro defunctis'' and ...

e, BWV 234 & 235, Johann Sebastian Bach (Collegium Vocale) * 1991 : ''Cantatas for bass'',

BWV 56 (), 56, is a church cantata composed by Johann Sebastian Bach for the 19th Sunday after Trinity. It was first performed in Leipzig on 27 October, 1726. The composition is a solo cantata (german: Solokantate) because, apart from the ...

, 82 &

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, Johann Sebastian Bach (Chapelle Royale) * 1990 : Requiem, Jean Gilles (Chapelle Royale) * 1991 : Missae, BWV 233 & 236, Johann Sebastian Bach (Collegium Vocale) * 1992 : Cantatas,

BWV 131 (Out of the depths I call, Lord, to You), , is a church cantata by the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach. It was composed in either 1707 or 1708, which makes it one of Bach's earliest cantatas. Some sources suggest that it could be his earl ...

, 73 et 105, Johann Sebastian Bach (Collegium Vocale) * 1992 : ''Missa Viri Galilei'', Palestrina (Ensemble Vocal Européen de la Chapelle Royale) * 1993 : Cantatas,

BWV 39 Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata ("Break with hungry men thy bread" or "Give the hungry ones thy bread"), , in Leipzig and first performed on 23 June 1726, the first Sunday after Trinity Sunday, Trinity that year. Three years ...

, 93 et 107, Johann Sebastian Bach (Collegium Vocale) * 1996 : ''

Geistliche Chormusik ' (Sacred choral music) is a collection of motets on German texts for choir by Heinrich Schütz. It was printed in Dresden in 1648 as his ' ( Op. 11), and comprises 29 individual settings for five to seven voices, which were assigned numbers 369 ...

'', Heinrich Schütz (Collegium Vocale)

With Ton Koopman

* 1992 : ''Motets à double Choeur'' H.403, H.404, H.135, H.136, H.137, H.392, H.410, H.167 by

(The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra). 2 CD Erato.

With Masaaki Suzuki

* 1995-2008 : Bach's complete cantatas (Bach Collegium Japan)

Solo recitals

* ''Mein Herz ist bereit'' German Solo cantatas for bass, violin and b. c. from the 17th century. - Bruhns ''Mein Herz ist bereit'',

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, Tunder,

Pachelbel Johann Pachelbel (baptised – buried 9 March 1706; also Bachelbel) was a German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ schools to their peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contribut ...

, Rosenmüller, J. P. Krieger, Biber ''Nisi Dominus'' CordArte Ensemble, Pan Classics PC10211 2005 * ''De profundis clamavi'' – Weckmann, Bruhns, Geist, Buns, J. C. Bach. Armonia Sonora, Ramée 2007 * ''Harmonia Sacrae'' – Tunder ''An Wasserflüssen Babylon'', Meder ''Gott hilf mir; Ach Herr, strafe mich nicht mit deinem Zorn'', Christoph Weckmann ''Lamentatio Wie liegt die Stadt so wüste'',

Christoph Bernhard Christoph Bernhard (1 January 1628 – 14 November 1692) was born in Kolberg, Pomerania, and died in Dresden. He was a German Baroque composer and musician. He studied with former Sweelinck-pupil Paul Siefert in Danzig (now Gdańsk) and in War ...

''Sie haben meinen Herrn hinweggenommen'',

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''Obstupescite'' Peter Kooij,

Hana Blažíková Hana Blažíková (born 2 December 1980) is a Czech soprano and harpist. She is focused on Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music, appearing internationally. She has recorded as a member of the Bach Collegium Japan, among many others. Career ...

, L'Armonia Sonora, dir. Mieneke van der Velden,

Ramée Outhere Music is a Belgian classical music and jazz publisher, directed by Charles Adriaenssen, which owns several formerly independent labels, many of them boutique early music specialists: * Fuga Libera, a Belgian label founded in 2004 under th ...

. 2009

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kooy, Peter 1954 births Living people Dutch basses 20th-century Dutch male opera singers Dutch performers of early music Conservatorium van Amsterdam alumni People from Soest, Netherlands 21st-century Dutch male opera singers