Dominique Verkinderen (Soprano)

Born: Gent, Beligium

The Belgian soprano, Dominique Verkinderen, studied Latin and Greek at the Grammar School ‘Sint Bavo Humaniora’. One year after the foundation of Collegium Vocale Gent in 1970 by Philippe Herreweghe, she already joined this Baroque Ensemble at the age of 15 as soprano singer. She completed her History Studies at the University of Gent in 1978 (she wrote the study ‘Het Van Crombrugghe’s Genootschap van 1857-1875’ Gent Liberaal Archief 1988).

After completing her studies, Dominique Verkinderen started working for Philippe Herreweghe and the Collegium Vocale Gent being responsable for the organisation and administration. Nowadays she is soprano singer and also responsable for the casting of the choir- and orchestra menbers, as well as for the soloists, wherefore she organises auditions 4 times a year all around Europe. She studied singing with Peter Kooy (Amsterdam) and Liane Jespers (Antwerp).

With Collegium Vocale Gent and Ensemble Vocal Européen, Dominique Verkinderen has recorded more than eighty CD's and travelled all over the world to South America, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapure, Japan, Australia, and the USA as well as to the most European Countries. She gives on the average sixty concerts a year with Philippe Herreweghe and other conductors as Iván Fischer, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Bernard Haitink, Ton Koopman, Marcus Creed, Paul Van Nevel, Peter Phillips. She had a series of staged performances of Monteverdi’s Orfeo in London, Paris, Brussels and New York with René Jacobs and the famous American choreographer Trisha Brown. Her favourite music is Renaissance Music, J.S. Bach, Purcell and Monteverdi.

Source: The Artist (September 2017); Photo 01: Ageet Zweistra (first cellist of Collegium Vocale Gent)
Contributed by Dominique Verkinderen (September 2017)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Philippe Herreweghe

Soprano

Member of La Chapelle Royale:
[C-3] (1987): BWV 198 [1^st recording], BWV 78

Philippe Herreweghe

Soprano

Member of Collegium Vocale Gent:
C-4 (1990): BWV 243, BWV 80
C-5 (1990): BWV 21, BWV 42
C-6 (1991): BWV 56, BWV 158
C-7 (1993): BWV 43, BWV 44, BWV 11
C-8 (1994): BWV 249, BWV 66
C-9 (1995): BWV 122, BWV 110, BWV 57
C-10 (1996): BWV 36, BWV 61, BWV 62
C-12 (1998): BWV 8, BWV 125, BWV 138 [2^nd recording]
C-13 (1999): BWV 29, BWV 119, BWV 120
C-14 (2002): BWV 2, BWV 20, BWV 176
C-15: CD-1 (2001): BWV 91, BWV 121, BWV 133; CD-2 (2002): BWV 63, BWV 243a
C-16 (2003): BWV 12 [1724 version], BWV 38, BWV 75
C-18 (2006-2007): BWV 27, BWV 95, BWV 161
C-19 (2007): BWV 22, BWV 23, BWV 127, BWV 159
C-22 (2012): BWV 25, BWV 138 [3^rd recording], BWV 105 [2^nd recording], BWV 46
C-23 (2013): BWV 44 [2^nd recording], BWV 48, BWV 73 [2^nd recording], BWV 109
C-24 (2016): BWV 101, BWV 115, BWV 103
[C-25] (2017): BWV 80 [2^nd recording], BWV 4, BWV 79
V-6 (1984): BWV 244 [1^st recording]
V-7 (1998): BWV 244 [2^nd recording]
V-10 (1987): BWV 245 [1^st recording, 1724 version]
[V-22] (2018): BWV 245 [5^th recording]

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