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 Highlights 2016

   

  

  Wednesday 3 August 2016

  Odeon

  Sindelfingen

  Der Zwerg Festival

  Die Schöne Magelone

  With Konrad Jarnot,

  Johannes Held

  www.derzwergfestival.de

  Friday 16 September
  ‘s Hertogenbosch
  IVC – Lied Duo Competition
  Panel member
  Round table forum

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  Friday 16 September
  Muzerije ‘s Hertogenbosch
  IVC – Lied Duo Competition
  Songs by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
  with Konrad Jarnot

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  Sunday 2 October 2016

  Leeuwenbergh

  Utrecht

  Alba Rosa Viva! Music Festival

  Songs by Max Bruch and

  Elisabeth Kuypers

  with Karin Strobos,

  Martijn Cornet

  www.albarosavietor.com

   

  Sunday 2 October 2016

  MAX Avondconcert

  Live on Radio 4

  Songs by Max Bruch and

  Elisabeth Kuypers

  with Karin Strobos,

  Martijn Cornet

  www.radio4.nl/avondconcert

   

   

   Saturday 19 November 8 pm
   De Doelen Rotterdam
   Dag van het Theatrale Lied
   ‘De Parijse Salon’
   with Bo van der Meulen,
    Irene Maessen, Elonore Pameijer
   www.dedoelen.nl

   Sunday 20 November 4 pm

   Landgoed Anderstein
   Muziek op de Deel
   ‘Winterreise’
   with Peter Gijsbertsen
   www.muziekopdedeel.nl

   Sunday 11 December 3 pm

   Kasteel Oldenaller
   DAMAST Trio
   Songs by Brahms, Schumann,
   Bridge, Marx and Janacek
   with Katharine Dain and
   Emlyn Stam
   Reservations:
   vandantzig@gmail.com

   Saturday 17 December 4 pm
   Beetsterzwaag
   Winterconcert St. Cultbee
   DAMAST Trio
   Songs by Brahms, Schumann,
   Bridge, Marx and Janacek
   with Katharine Dain and
   Emlyn Stam
   www.cultbee.nl

 

    

 Highlights 2014/15

  Sunday 28 September 2014
  Leeuwenbergh & Geertekerk
  Utrecht
  Alba Rosa Viva! Music Festival

  Click here for details

  Friday 10 October 2014
  Vredenburg
  Utrecht
  Hart & Ziel Dag

  with Isabelle van Keulen,

  Konrad Jarnot

  Click here for details

  Monday 27 October 2014
  Musis Sacrum, Arnhem
  De Parijse salon,

  op zoek naar de verloren tijd
  with Christiaan Kuyvenhoven, Irene  

  Maessen, Eleonore Pameijer
  > Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Debussy,

  Ravel, Weill, Poulenc, Satie,

  Chaminade

  Click here for details

 

  Monday 17 November 2014
  Bethaniënklooster, Amsterdam
  Erwartung
  with Konrad Jarnot (bariton) &

  Eleonore Pameijer (flute)
  > Braunfels, Korngold, Schreker,

  Schönberg, Hindemith, Krauss,

  Lachman

  Click here for details

   

  Sunday 8 March 2015
  Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
  Het Wenen van Joseph Marx 
  With Michael Schade (tenor) &

  Philippe Graffin (violin)
  >Marx, Goldmark, Korngold, Kreisler,

  Richard Strauss

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  After extensive piano studies with Gérard van Blerk (Amsterdam), Malcolm Frager (USA) and Noël Lee (Paris) the Dutch pianist Reinild Mees concentrated her activities on accompanying singers and instrumentalistst in recital. High-ranking artists as Elly Ameling, Gérard Souzay and Sandor Végh helped her refine and perfect her talents in this demanding métier.

Today Reinild Mees is a sought-after accompanist for song recitals and duo concerts. She concertizes with soloists such as Camilla Nylund, Marlis Petersen, Claudia Barainsky, Amanda Roocroft, Piotr Beczala, Sergei Leiferkus, Konrad Jarnot, Wolfgang Holzmair, Olaf Bär or Roman Trekel, appearing in Europe's leading musical centers. Many of her concerts are being recorded on television and radio. She has released a number of highly noted CDs on the Channel Classics label with The Complete Songs of Sir Edward Elgar, Ottorino Respighi, Franz Schreker and Karol Szymanowski. Recently she released The Complete Songs of Erich Wolfgang Korngold on the Capriccio label. She also recorded song cycles of Robert Schumann with the German baritone Jochen Kupfer, playing a historical grand piano from Schumann’s time, and ‘Songs with and without Words’ by Felix Mendelssohn, playing on a historical Érard concert grand. All her CD’s got very good reviews in Gramophone, Fono Forum, Musica and other international magazines.

Reinild Mees was honored with the Szymanowski Award (which was previously won by Sir Simon Rattle) and the Ambassador of Polish Culture order for her promotion of Szymanowski’s work, both in concert and in recording. Also, the Szymanowski CD box won the most prestigious prize of Poland, the Fryderyk Award.

Next to her concert career, Reinild Mees is the founder and artistic director of the Stichting 20ste-eeuwse Lied, (The 20th Century Song Foundation), a foundation dedicated to the cultivation of the 20th-century art song. In order to promote the revival of the beautiful songs, mainly from the interbellum, which have been neglected after the Second World War, Reinild Mees has created a series of semi-staged concert programs called Spotlights, with which she has attracted widespread attention in the Netherlands and abroad. The concerts unite internationally renowned vocal soloists and well-known directors.

As a vocal coach Reinild Mees has taught at the Amsterdam and Utrecht Conservatory, the European Centre for Opera and Vocal Art (Ghent) and the Opera Studio Nederland. Currently she teaches at the Robert Schumann Hochschule (Düsseldorf).


 
 

Interview (in Dutch) with Reinild Mees by Margaretha Coonstra for Luister, March 2015.

Pionier van het 20ste-eeuwse lied.


Interview (in German) with Reinild Mees by Alexander Rath for ORPHEUS, March/April 2010, entitled "Zu einer besseren Welt beitragen" - "Contributing to a better world" (pdf file)

Interview (in Dutch) with Reinild Mees by Jordi Kooiman for www.operamagazine.nl, January 2010, entitled "We moeten het lied niet laten uitsterven" - "We mustn't allow the art-song to become extinct" (pdf file)

Interview (in Dutch) with Reinild Mees by Thiemo Wind of De Telegraaf, April 2008, entitled "Liever niet in de schijnwerpers" - "Avoiding the spotlight" (pdf file)

 
 


Discography

All cds are available at Channel Classics Records www.channelclassics.com, with the exception of the Mendelssohn, which is available via Ars Produktion
and the Korngold and Zilcher cds which are available via JPC www.jpc.de.



 
Click for more information on Edward Elgar Click for more information on Edward Elgar Click for more information on K. Szymanwoski Click for more information on K. Szymanwoski
Edward Elgar Edward Elgar Karol Szymanowski Karol Szymanowski

Click for more information on F. Schreker Click for more information on F. Schreker Click for more information on K. Szymanwoski Click for more information on K. Szymanwoski
Franz Schreker Franz Schreker Karol Szymanowski Karol Szymanowski

Klik voor meer informatie over O. Respighi Klik voor meer informatie over O. Respighi Klik voor meer informatie over O. Respighi Listen to excerpts from "Songs of Schumann"
Ottorino Respighi Ottorino Respighi Ottorino Respighi Robert Schumann

Click for more information on Mendelssohn

Chinese Lieder Felix Mendelssohn Hermann Zilcher Erich Wolfgang Korngold
 
 
 

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