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Dutch tenor Marcel Reijans began studying
voice at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam in
1990. From 1994 to 1996 he studied at the Curtis Institute
of Music in Philadelphia, earning a Master of Music
degree in Opera. He won first prize in the Cristina
Deutekom Concours in 1996 and represented The Netherlands
at the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 1997.
Mr. Reijans regularly performs opera, recitals
and oratoria throughout the world. His wide
range of repertoire encompasses works from the 17th
to the 21st century. Marcel Reijans has worked with
conductors such as Abel, Atherton, Barenboim, de Billy,
Bruggen, Bychkov, Chailly, Eschenbach, Eötvös,
Gergiev, Haenchen, Halsey, Hengelbrock, Jacobs, Jordan,
Koopman, Layer, Montgomery, Ozawa, Rattle, Renes, Soustrot,
Spanjaard, de Vriend, de Waart and van Zweden and has
sung with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston
Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Radio Filharmonisch
Orkest, Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Residentie Orkest,
NDR Sinfonieorchester, Amsterdams Barok Orkest and Combattimento
Consort Amsterdam.
He has been a guest at diverse festivals including the
famed festivals of Aix-en-Provence, Tanglewood and the
BBC Proms.
Acclaimed for his perfomances of Mozart,
Marcel Reijans has sung Ferrando Così fan
tutte (Hamburgische Staatsoper, Semperoper Dresden,
Schwetzinger Festspiele, Nationale Reisopera and at
the Montreux, Baden-Baden and Innsbruck festivals),
Don Ottavio Don Giovanni (Liceu Barcelona,
New York City Opera, De Nederlandse Opera and Nationale
Reisopera), Tamino Die Zauberflöte (Liceu
Barcelona, Boston Lyric Opera, Opéra National
de Lyon, Opéra de Marseille, Angers Nantes Opéra
and the Nationale Reisopera), Agenore Il re pastore
(CD recording) and the title role in Mitridate,
rè di Ponto (CD recording).
His operatic repertoire further includes Tom
Rakewell The Rake's Progress (Nationale Reisopera),
Fenton Falstaff (Hamburgische Staatsoper),
Chevalier de la Force Dialogues des Carmélites
(De Nederlandse Opera), Narraboth Salome (Opéra
National de Montpellier, De Nederlandse Opera, Hong
Kong, Brisbane), Matteo Arabella (Hamburgische
Staatsoper), Walther von der Vogelweide Tannhäuser
(De Nederlandse Opera, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden), Andres
Wozzeck (La Monnaie, Brussels), Kudrjáš
Kát’a Kabanová (Nationale
Reisopera), Anatol Vanessa (Palermo, Italy),
Jones Johnny & Jones (Dresdner Musikfestspiele),
Grigory Boris Godunov (Nationale Reisopera),
Nando Tiefland (Liceu te Barcelona), Hylas
Les Troyens (De Nederlandse Opera, Genève
Opera), Scaramuccio Ariadne auf Naxos (Liceu
Barcelona), Aeneas Dido and Aeneas (Malaga),
Candide Candide (Nationale Reisopera), Hippolyte
Hippolyte et Aricie (St. Louis), Ernesto Don
Pasquale (Opera Zuid), Janek Vêc Makropulos
(De Nederlandse Opera, Opera Zuid and Aix-en-Provence
with Sir Simon Rattle), Paris King Priam (Nationale
Reisopera) and Ein junger Seemann Tristan und Isolde
(De Nederlandse Opera and at Carnegie Hall, Chicago
Symphony Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim), Camille Die
Lustige Witwe (Vocal Festival in the Concertgebouw),
Faust La Damnation de Faust (BBC National Orchestra
of Wales, Cardiff), Kunz Vogelgesang Die Meistersinger
von Nurnberg (ZaterdagMatinee), and Le Berger Oedipus
Rex (Christmas matinee 2001 with the Koninklijk
Concertgebouworkest under the baton of Riccardo Chailly).
Marcel maintains an active concert career and
has sung performances of Mendelssohn’s Elijah
and St Paul, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
and the Evangelist and tenor arias from the St John
and St Matthew Passions, Handel’s Messiah
and La Resurrezione, Beethoven’s Symphony
No.9 and Mass in C Major, Mozart’s
Requiem and Coronation Mass, Haydn’s
The Seasons, Britten’s Serenade for Tenor,
Horn and Strings, Liszt’s Faust Symphony,
Zemlinsky’s Der König Kandaules
and Berlioz’ La Damnation de Faust.
The 2009/10 season saw Mr. Reijans
return to De Nederlandse Opera as Basilio Le nozze
di Figaro and Narraboth Salome as well
as engagements with the Staatsoper Hamburg (Matteo Arabella),
Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin (Narraboth Salome)
and Opéra National de Paris (Froh Das Rheingold).
In the 2010/11 season, Mr Reijans
will return to La Monnaie, Brussels as Le Prince Philippe
Yvonne, Princesse de Bourgogne, a new opera
by Philippe Boesmans based on the play by Witold Gombrowicz.
Further engagements include Jacquino Fidelio
at De Nederlands Opera and Narraboth Salome at
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, and on the concert stage
Reijans will sing Bach’s St Matthew Passion,
Liszt’s Faust Symphony, Beethoven’s
Symphony No.9 and his role debut as Max in
Weber’s Der Freischütz as part of
the ZaterdagMatinee series at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
In addition to an extensive solo career, Marcel Reijans
is the artistic leader of the Dutch ensemble Frommermann,
a group of five singers, pianist and guitarist. Shortly
after their debut in 2005, Frommermann was invited to
perform at the annual Koninginnedagconcert (‘Queen’s
Concert’) at the Noordeinde Palace in The Hague
in the presence of HM Queen Beatrix, the Royal Family
and many esteemed guests and was received with much acclaim.
In 2008 Frommermann performed in the celebrated Prinsengrachtconcert
in Amsterdam and in March 2009 their collaboration with
actors Peter Blok and Gijs Scholten van Aschat resulted
in sold-out performances in De Kleine Komedie in Amsterdam.
Frommermann has recorded two CDs. In February/March 2011,
Frommerman will embark on a tour around The Netherlands
with its new programme “Suit it!”
Marcel Reijans is represented by Intermusica.
August 2010 / 825 words. Not to be altered without permission.
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