Purcell’s Music for a While: ‘Editors Choice July 2009’ (Gramophone)
Maarten Koningsberger studied with Max van Egmond, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Margreet Honig, among others. He acquired an international reputation as concert, Lied and opera interpreter.
Orchestras & operas
Maarten Koningberger performed with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dutch Radio Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Holland Symfonia, Dutch Radio Symphony Orchestra, Noord Nederlands Orchestra, Les Arts Florissants, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, BBC Singers, Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Tafelmusik Toronto and the Orchestra of Singapore (Einhorn’s Voices of Light at the New Esplanada). Maarten also performed various concerts in Poland during the Wratislava Cantans Festival (Wroclav), in Warschau and Bydgozcz. He was also to be heard during the opera production of the Nederlandse Reisopera (L’Opera Seria), during the production of the Opera Zuid in Die Dreigrosschenoper, and in operas of Debussy, Bernstein, Monteverdi, Mozart, Offenbach, Menotti, Maderna, Poulenc, Rameau and Strauss.
Conductors
Maarten Koningsberger worked with conductors such as Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Jeffrey Tate, Kees Bakels, Hans Vonk, Arnold Östman, Ton Koopman, William Christie, René Jacobs and Ed Spanjaard. His recitals as lied performer, with the pianists Irwin Cage and Graham Johnson brought him to prestigious halls throughout the world. He gave recitals in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Tivoli-Vredenburg Utrecht, the Wigmore Hall in London, in Germany (during the Ruhr Festival a.o.), South-Africa, France, Slovenia (Ljubljana) USA (Carnegie Hall New York), etc.
Maarten Koningsberger toured throughout the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by Gustav Leonhardt, performed in Die Zauberflöte, during the Monteverdi-cycle of the Dutch National Opera, with René Jacobs and his Double Bande in Telemann’s Der geduldige Sokrates (performed in France and Germany), performed lieder of Schubert with the HET Symfonieorkest, and performed with the Noord Nederlands Orchestra. Maarten also sung the role of Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas during a production at the Festival van Vlaanderen.
Recent engagements
Various recitals with Schubert’s Winterreise, Schumann programs with the Matangi Quartet (Dichterliebe). In 2014 he performed as well the Matthew Passion with the Hong Kong Philharmonic under Jaap van Zweden, Haydn’s Creation with the Residentie Orchestra, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Reinhard Goebel and the Noord Nederlands Orkest and Die Zauberflöte (Sprecher) at the Festival Aix-en-Provence with the Freiburger Barockorchester under Pablo Heras-Cassado, as well as with the Dutch National Opera. Besides that he released with What’s new a unique and successful jazz album. In latest seasons Maarten Koningsberger has been soloist in several Passion concerts with Reinhardt Goebel, performed in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at Dutch National Opera, and sang concerts with Matangi Quartet and several Lied recitals.
Sample Programs
Old Songs Re-Sung
Maarten Koningsberger en
The Atlantic Trio
L. v. BEETHOVEN SCOTTISH
SONGS Op 108
The sweetest lad was Jamie
Oh sweet were the hours
Faithfu’ Johnie
Come fill, fill my good fellow
J. BRAHMS DEUTSCHE
VOLKSLIEDER WoO 33
Es steht ein Lind
Erlaube mir, feins Mädchen
Da unten im Tale
Mein Mädel hat einen Rosenmund
M. RAVEL arr. VERHEIJDEN 5 MÉLODIES POPULAIRES
GRECQUES
Chanson de la mariée
Là-bas, vers l’église
Quel galant m’est comparable?
Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques
Tout gai!
G. BUTTERWORTH arr.
VERHEIJDEN Songs from ‘A SHROPSHIRE LAD ’
Loveliest of trees
When I was one-and-twenty
Look not in my eyes
Think no more, lad
The lads in their hundreds
Is my team ploughing?
J. BRAHMS Andante
con moto uit PIANO TRIO No 2 Opus 87
L. v. BEETHOVEN
IRISH
SONGS
Thou emblem of faith WoO
152/11
Return to Ulster WoO
152/1
The elfin fairies WoO
154/1
Oh who, my dear Dermot WoO 154/5
Come draw we round a cheerful ring WoO 152/8
Rondom César
Franck (César Franck et ces éleves)
Maarten
Koningsberger en Bas Verheijen
C. Franck Le
Mariage des Roses
(1822-1890) Nocturne
Souvenance
Augusta Holmes A Trianon
(1847-1903) Jornée
Fleurie
Dans
un Parc abbandonné
Vincent d’Indy Madrigal
(1851-1931) Lied Maritieme
Mirage
Guy de Lioncourt Soir d’ete sur la terasse
(1885-1961) La lune
tremble dans l’eau
Hiver
Fauré Poeme
d’un Jour
1845-1924) Rencontre
Toujours
Adieu
Duparc L’invitaion
au voyage
(1845-1930) Sérénade Florentine
Soupir
Le Manoir de Rosemonde
La
Vie entérieure
Extase
Le
Galop
Kerst met
Maarten en Matangi
Op het
programma onder andere: Let it snow, An das Christkind, Maria
Wiegenlied, Come all ye merry Gentlemen, Kerst door het hele jaar, Wiegenlied, Weihnachtslied
der Hirten, The Christmas song, Noël de la Rue, White Christmas,
Sleighride