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The Dutch soprano, Johannette Zomer, began her studies at the Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam in with Charles van Tassel, after having.!
Johannette Zomer
soprano
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The Dutch soprano Johannette Zomer began her studies at the Sweelinck Conservatorium Amsterdam in 1990 with Charles van Tassel, after having worked as a microbiology analyst for several years.
Johannette Zomer Biography by James Manheim.
In June 1997 she was awarded her Performance Diploma.
Her repertoire ranges from medieval music through all music of the baroque and classical eras, including opera, but also Lieder, French Romanticism and Contemporary music.
The prestigious ‘Gramophone magazine’ said of her: “A new voice to watch”.
Johannette’s concert appearances are also many and various. She has worked with Baroque specialists such as Philippe Herreweghe, Ton Koopman, Frans Brüggen, René Jacobs, Reinard Goebel and Paul McCreesh, but has also worked with conductors including Kent Nagano, Ivan Fisher, Marcus Creed, Daniel Harding, Valery Gergiev, Reinbert de Leeuw and Peter Eötvös.
Further she regularly gives recitals accompanied by fortepiano speci