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Baritone, Bass-baritone

Henk Neven

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Dutch bass-baritone Henk Neven  is one of the most exciting song interpreters of his generation, having made regular appearances at the Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw and the BBC Proms, whilst being equally at home on the operatic stage. A recipient of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, he has an ongoing recording contract with Onyx and his discs have received critical praise. Neven was a member of the prestigious BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme and in 2011 received the Dutch Music Prize, the highest honor that the Netherlands Ministry of Culture awards to a classical musician.

This season Neven covers the role of King in the world premiere of George  Benjamin's Lessons in Love and Violence  at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He also appears with the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra with Stravinsky's  Pulcinella  and with the Residentieorkest perfoming arias by Mozart. Other appearances include songs and arias by Mahler and Mozart with Orchester de Picardie. 

Last season Neven returned to the UK to reprise the title role Don Giovanni with Northern Ireland Opera. On the concert platform performed Die schöne Müllerin with pianist Imogen Cooper at the Wigmore Hall and with Joseph Middleton at Leeds Lieder, as well as making appearances with the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, the International Cello Festival Biennale in Amsterdam, Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France , Sinfonia Rotterdam and Lausanne Cathedral. He also recorded a program of Elgar songs with Kathryn Rudge and the BBC Concert Orchestra in collaboration with SOMM Recordings.

His operatic roles include Aronte Armide, title role Hamlet, the title role and Leporello  Don Giovanni ; Conte  Le nozze di Figaro ; Phorbas  Oedipe ; Mercutio  Romeo and Juliette ; Patrocle  Iphiginie and Aulide ; Aeneas  Dido and Aeneas ; Marco  Gianni Schicchi ; Schaunard  La bohème ; Morales  Carmen ; Ben  The Telephone  and Mr. Gobineau  The Medium ; Mars  Venus and Adonis ; Pollux  Castor and Pollux ; and Frère Léon  St. François d'Assise, staged by Pierre Audi and recorded for DVD by Opus Arte. He has appeared at the Opéra National de Paris, La Monnaie, Berlin Staatsoper, Theater an der Wien, Le Duo de Dijon, Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, L'Opéra National de Montpellier, Grand Théâtre de Tours, Opéra de Rouen and De Nederlandse Opera .

On the concert platform he has worked with Marin Alsop and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the BBC Proms performing  Brahms Requiem, St Matthew Passion with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Beethoven  Mass in C with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Concertgebouw, BBC National Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, North Netherlands Orchestra, Netherlands Bach Society, Flemish Radio Orchestra , L'Orchester National de France, L'Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchester d'Opéra National de Paris, Staatskapelle Berlin, L'Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Orchester National de Lyon, Les Concerts Spirituels and Les Talens Lyriques. He has worked with conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Simon Rattle, Edo de Waart, Jaap van Zweden, Jan Willem de Vriend, Hervé Niquet, Kenneth Montgomery, Joel Levi, Patrick Lange, Armin Jordan, John Nelson, Ed Spanjaard,

An outstanding recitalist, he is a regular guest of the Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and at the NTR Saturday Matinee series. He has performed in the Early Music Festival in Utrecht, Operadagen Rotterdam and the Gergiev Festival. Past highlights include debuts at the City of London Festival and Cheltenham Festival; performances for the BBC Proms; and recitals for La Monnaie in Brussels, Amsterdam's Beurs van Berlage and Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

Henk Neven started recording for Onyx Records in 2011, when his Gramophone-nominated debut album  Auf einer Burg  was received with the highest acclaim. In 2012, Onyx Records released his second album,  The Sea  on which he performs songs by Debussy, Fauré and Schubert.

English

The Marriage of Figaro

Il Conte di Almaviva

Madame Butterfly

Il Commissario imperiale

The Stigmatized

Paolo Calvi

Castor and Pollux

Pollux

Saint Francis of Assisi

Frère Léon

Romeo and Juliet

Mercutio

Billy Budd

Donald

Armida

Ubalde

Aronte

Don Giovanni

Iphigenia in Aulis

Patrocle

Oedipus

Phorbas

Grégorio

Hamlet

Horatio

1. Fossoyeur

La Bohème

Schaunard

The Magic Flute

Papageno

The King's Children

Der Wirt

Leporello

Dido and Aeneas

Aeneas

Ariadne on Naxos

Harlekin

The Marksman

Ottokar

The Clemency of Titus

Publio

2. Senator

Zweiter Bürger

Messiah HWV 56

Bass

St John Passion

Jesus

St. Matthew Passion

Brockes Passion, TWV 5:1

The Fall of the House of Usher

bariton

No role specified

Die Bakchantinnen

Flames

Andrea Chenier

Choeur des Coryphées

Venus and Adonis

Mars

Concert

Oedipus Rex

Così fan tutte

Bariton II

Don Alfonso

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