There are no Borders in the Sky - presentation
Wednesday 20 May / 5.30 - 6.30 pm
Presentation recital by participants in the masterclass for amateur lied duos by Ellen Valkenburg, singing teacher and Maurice Lammerts van Bueren, piano teacher
In many of Edward Hopper's paintings, you can see where nature ends and the man-made world begins. At that interface, nature and man touch. A great example is the work Cape Cod Morning: a woman looks through the bay window at green trees and waving grass. The image evokes loneliness, but also a yearning for the freedom of nature, without the boundaries man-made. You can also find this theme in the lied, for example in Jake Heggies El Hombre (Tamayo) in which sounds ‘There are no borders in the sky’.
Master class participants There are no Borders in the Sky worked with singing teacher Ellen Valkenburg and pianist Maurice Lammerts van Bueren on liederen in which man and nature touch each other. During the presentation recital, they will take up the challenge of showing what they have learned in front of an audience.
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Small Hall
Evangelical Brotherhood
Zusterplein 20, 3703 CB Zeist
Ellen Valkenburg / singing teacher
Ellen Valkenburg studied at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, where she completed her bachelor with distinction ‘for authenticity in the choice and performance of the programme’. At the same conservatoire, she completed her master's degree in 2014. In 2012, she was awarded the Margit Widlund Stipendium, which is intended for young singers with exceptional stage presence. As a soloist, she sang with the Residentie Orkest and several oratorio companies. She also gave concerts for the Dutch Travel Opera.
For several years, she has formed a duo with pianist Maurice Lammerts van Bueren. With him and four other singers, she is part of the Coco Collective. With Lammerts van Bueren, she also made the successful CD Les Apaches with Spanish- and French-language repertoire, which was very well received.
Maurice Lammerts van Bueren / piano teacher
Pianist Maurice Lammerts van Bueren graduated with Jan Wijn at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and subsequently obtained the chamber music endorsement. He was taught lied accompaniment by Graham Johnson and Rudolf Jansen, among others. Before devoting himself wholeheartedly to lied accompaniment, he was mainly active as a chamber musician. Lammerts van Bueren collaborated with many instrumentalists and singers such as Henk Neven, Ellen Valkenburg and Lilian Farahani. He has since recorded eighteen CDs, including the double album 57 MAZURKI with all of Chopin's mazurkas in 2022.
He is also a coach at the vocal department of the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and has given lessons and master classes in lied coaching at the Utrecht Conservatoire and ArtEZ conservatoire as a guest teacher.