Johannette Zomer (Soprano) - Short Biography

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Johannette Zomer (Soprano)
Born: Holland
The Dutch soprano, Johannette Zomer, began her studies at the Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam in 1990 with Charles van Tassel, after having worked as a microbiology analyst for several years. In June 1997 she was awarded her Performance Diploma. Johannette Zomer regularly gives recitals with pianist Bart van de Roer and forte-piano specialist Arthur Schoonderwoerd and is also a member of several Early Music groups; a.o. Compania Vocale, with whom she sang at the Ambraser Schlosskonzerte in Innsbruck and at the "Oude Muziek Festival Utrecht" during the summer of 1997. As a solo-artist Johannette Zomer participates regularly in concerts and CD-recordings (in a.o. J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor (BWV 232) with the Collegium Vocale Gent under Phillippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi) and she has worked with other baroque specialists such as Paul McCreesh, Jos van Veldhoven, Sigiswald Kuijken and René Jacobs. In October 1996 Johannette Zomer made her opera debut as the page Tebaldo in Verdi's Don Carlo with the Nationale Reis Opera, the Dutch Travel Opera Company. Since then she appeareded in Strauss’ Salomé (conducted by Valery Gergiev), and as Amanda in Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre (under Reinbert de Leeuw). Following that she sang her first Pamina in Mozart's Zauberflöte (under Ton Koopman) and performed twice as Euridice; in Haydn’s as well as Monteverdi’s Orpheo. Recent performances also include Belinda in Dido and Aneas by Purcell. With Cantus Cölln she appeared in a staged performance of Monteverdi Madrigals.

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Source: Ensemble Antequera Website (October 1999) Contributed by Aryeh Oron (August 2001)
Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works
Conductor	As	Works
Under her Name	Soprano	Anna Magdalena Notebook BWV 508-518 (with Pieter-Jan Belder)
Florilegium	Soprano	BWV 82a, BWV 199
Philippe Herreweghe	Soprano	BWV 176, BWV 232
Ton Koopman	Soprano	BWV 14, BWV 27, BWV 32, BWV 39, BWV 43, BWV 58, BWV 88, BWV 98, BWV 129, BWV 137, BWV 145, BWV 151, BWV 164, BWV 168, BWV 176, BWV 195, BWV 233, BWV 234
Jos van Veldhoven	Soprano	BWV 244, BWV 248
Links to other Sites
Johannette Zomer - Soprano (Official Website) [English/Dutch] Johannette Zomer - Soprano (Caroline Philips Management) Ensemble Antequera - Biographies Johannette Zomer (La Primavera) [Dutch] Johannette Zomer, sopraan (C.O.V. Excelesior) [Dutch]			Compania Vocale (Osrednji koncerti) [Slovenian] Johannette Zomer (Harmonia Mundi) Johannette Zomer (Christina Pulhar) [German] BRISK recorder quartet

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