Sytse Buwalda (born 1965) is a Dutch counter-tenor.

Life and career

Buwalda studied at the Sweelinck School of Music ( Conservatorium van Amsterdam) in Amsterdam and has worked with conductors such as

Frans Brüggen Franciscus ("Frans") Jozef Brüggen (30 October 1934 – 13 August 2014) was a Dutch Conducting, conductor, recorder player and baroque flautist. Biography Born in Amsterdam, Brüggen was the last of the nine children of August Brüggen, a textile ...

Gustav Leonhardt Gustav Maria Leonhardt (30 May 1928 – 16 January 2012) was a Dutch keyboardist, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor. He was a leading figure in the historically informed performance movement to perform music on period instruments. Leo ...

, Sigiswald Kuijken and Sir

David Willcocks Sir David Valentine Willcocks, (30 December 1919 – 17 September 2015) was a British choral conductor, organist, composer and music administrator. He was particularly well known for his association with the Choir of King's College, Cambridge ...

. He was the alto soloist for most volumes of

Pieter Jan Leusink Pieter Jan Leusink (born 5 April 1958 in Elburg) is a Dutch conductor of classical music. He studied organ in Zwolle at the Municipal Conservatory and took conducting lessons from Gottfried van der Horst. He founded the Stadsknapenkoor Elburg ( ...

's recording of the complete

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s of

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. He embarked upon a successful tour of Japan with

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 ...

, singing Bach solo cantatas, conducted by Masaaki Suzuki and

Yoshio Watanabe was a Japanese people, Japanese photographer. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. . Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. Publications * Kenzō Tange and Noboru Kawazoe. Ise. Prototype of Japanese Architecture. Photographs by Yoshio Watanabe'. C ...

. He also toured Holland with actress Ina van Faassen, putting on a production of '' Il Virtuoso'', a theatrical play based upon the bestseller novel '' de Virtuoos'' by

Margriet de Moor Margaretha Maria Antonetta 'Margriet' de Moor ('' née'' Neefjes; born 1941) is a Dutch pianist and writer of novels and essays. She won the AKO Literatuurprijs for her novel ''Eerst grijs dan wit dan blauw'' (1991). Life and career Margaretha ...

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External links

Official site
1965 births Living people 20th-century Dutch male opera singers Operatic countertenors Conservatorium van Amsterdam alumni People from Waterland 21st-century Dutch male opera singers {{opera-singer-stub