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BIOGRAPHY
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Dutch mezzo-soprano Ellen van Beek (1979) studied at the Utrecht Music Conservatory in the Netherlands with voice teacher Henny Diemer. In may 2004 she received her Bachelor of Music diploma with honors and two years later; her Master title, also with honors. During her studies in Utrecht she participated in the Opera Program of the Conservatory led by opera stage-director Monique Wagemakers and vocal coach Jan Slothouwer. She also attended master classes of singers Udo Reinemann, Sarah Walker, Edith Wiens, Henk Smit and pianists/coaches Rudolf Jansen, Konrad Richter and Helmut Deutsch. Currently Ellen is being coached by Pierre Mak and David Bollen.

During the last years Ellen was already active on the opera stage : she performed as Messagiera in Monteverdi's Orfeo and as Orfeo in Gluck's opera with the Rotterdam Theater- and Opera company Onafhankelijk Toneel in their production Orfeo Intermezzi.

On the concert stage Ellen was seen and heard in Mozart's Requiem, Moussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death ( arr. G.van Keulen), Alt- Rhapsody by Brahms and Gloria by Vivaldi. She worked with the conductors: Kenneth Montgomery, Jan Willem de Vriend, Bas Pollard, Joan Berkhemer, Jan Jansen and Jurrien Sligter. During the summer of 2006 she made a concert tour in France with the Utrechtsch Studenten Concert under conductor Bas Pollard and performed Hymne an die Nacht no.2 by Dutch composer Alphons Diepenbrock.

Ellen van Beek started to participate in the program of Opera Studio Nederland in November 2005 as Third Lady in Mozart’s Magic Flute.
During season 2006-2007 she was a full-time member of the ensemble and made her debut at The Bangkok Opera as Benjakai in S. Sucharitkul’s Ayodhya in November of that year. In Febuary, she went back to Bangkok to sing the role of Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia. She also created a soloperformance; Vrouwen, Liefde, Leven (“women, love, life”) in june 2007, directed by German stage-director Klaus Bertisch, staff member of the Netherlands Opera, with Schumann’s Fraunenliebe- und leben as centerpiece.



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