The Dutch
baritone, Peter Duyster, started his secondary education with Lia van der Velde
in The Hague, completing his undergraduate at the Sweelinck Conservatorium with
Udo Reinemann. He completed his Masters
at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in collaboration with the Staatliche
Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, Germany where he studied under Harmut Höll
and Mitsuko Shirai. During this time
Peter also followed courses at the Conservatoire National de Metz, France where
he was awarded first prize in Lieder and Opera, and le Prix Supérieur.
Peter worked in
masterclasses with Margreet Honig, Rudolf Jansen, Roger Vignoles, Noël Lee,
Graham Johnson,
Noelle Barker and Jard van Nes.
As a concertsinger, Peter
sang Orff’s Carmina Burana at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam under
direction of Sam ten Velde, and throughout BeNeLux under the direction of Gijs
Leenaars, Johan Sonneveld and Marc Sierens as well as Mendelssohn’s Paulus, Fauré’s
Requiem, Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium, Telemann’s Matthäus
Passion, works by composers like Dvorak, Charpentier, Vaughan Williams,
Liszt and Poulenc. He was invited in the festival Les Heures Romantiques en
Touraine, France, where he sang Mozart arias, Mozart’s Grabmusik,
and Lieder from Mahler's Knaben Wunderhorn.
Peter worked in a
production of Benjamin Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream under the
direction of Kenneth Montgomery in the regie by Nicolette Molnár. He also
performed David in Barber’s "A Hand of Bridge”, directed by Bas Pollard
with regie by Jan Bouws, which was televised by the Dutch national television.
As a singer of contemporary
music Peter sang pieces by Gubaidulina, Otto Ketting, Penderecki (Luke
Passion) and the premiere of Paul Engel’s Boehlendorff under the
direction of Jürgen Sonnentheil in Germany.
As a lied interpreter Peter
performed les Banalités by Poulenc for Radio France. In duo with pianist
David Bollen he had engagements with the Goethe Institut in Amsterdam, cultural
societies, the “Vrienden van het Lied” (Friends of Lieder) and the
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Contact Information:
Kox
Vocaal
Koninginneweg
59
1075 CH Amsterdam
the Netherlands
Tel: (+31) (0)
20-6756068
Fax: (+31) (0)
20-6626680
e-mail: info@koxvocaal.nl
Personal
and lessons:
Tel: (+31) (0) 20-6201615
e-mail: duyster2@zonnet.nl
Last revised 2/10/04