Season 2005/2006 has been the international breakthrough for Belgian soprano Hendrickje Van Kerckhove, with her debut at Bavarian State Opera as Natalia-Medusa in Arnaldo De Felice’s opera “Medusa”, Oscar in “Ballo in Maschera” and eventually "Voce dal Cielo" in “Don Carlo” led by Maestro Zubin Mehta, who invited her to sing "Blondchen" (Entführung) in Tel-Aviv, a part she made her debut with at Liceu Barcelona (April 2010). Selected “RISING STAR” by ECHO she was offered a recital tour on Europe’s most prestigious concert halls as Musikverein Vienna, Philharmonie de Luxembourg, Megaron Athens ...
Other highlights include “Soeur Constance” in Dialogues des Carmélites both at Theater an der Wien and Flanders Opera ; "Despina" in Cosi fan tutte both at Flanders Opera and at Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg ; "Maja" in the world creation of Die Besessenen by Johannes Kalizke at Theater an der Wien and her most recent appearance (Sept. 2011) at Brussels La Monnaie as “Dircé” in Médée by Cherubini, for which she got lavish praise.
The current sesaon she will sing her very first "Adèle" in Fledermaus at Opéra national du Rhin and make her debut at Theater unter den Linden Berlin with "Soprano 2" in Al gran sole carico d'amore (Luigi Nono) as at de Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam as "Norma Jean" in the world creation of Waiting for Ms Monroe by Robin de Raaff. Amongst her other future engagements : “Kristin” in Julie (Philippe Boesmans) in Limoges and "Elena" in Il Cappello di paglia (Nino Rota) in Nantes and Angers.
Hendrickje studied with Bernadette Degelin at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp and fulfilled her vocal education with Susan Roper. She post-graduaded subsequently at the Flanders Opera Studio and at the Queen Elisabeth Musical College (where she was coached by José van Dam and Susanna Eken. Her international career started when the “Royal Theater la Monnaie” offered her to sing “Kristin” in the world-creation Julie (Philippe Boesmans) that was revived at the “Wiener Festwochen” and “Le Festival d’Aix-en-Provence”. She also appeared at Düsseldorf (altstadtherbst Kulturfestival) to take part in “Kain” by Scarlatti and “Jephtha” by Haendel.
In the mean time Hendrickje Van Kerckhove has worked together with conductors such as M. Barbacini, E. Mazzola, Kazushi Ono, Zubin Mehta, M. Soustrot, M. Tilkin, Pierre Cao, P. Fournillier, I. Törzs, E. Spanjaard, Paul Daniel, Andreas and Christoph Spering, Bertrand de Billy, Theodor Guschlbauer, Louis Langrée, Philippe Herreweghe, J. Cl. Casadesus, Rani Calderon, Attilio Cremonesi, Ottavio Dantone, Hartmut Haenchen, David Afkham and Christophe Rousset. She was stage directed by G. Joosten, C. Loy, I. Van Hove, Fr. Dussenne, L. Bondy, R. Carsen, D. McVicar, A. Freyer, K. Holten, R. Castellucci, H. Kupfer and Kr. Warlikowski.
Other performed roles include : “Valencienne” (Die Lustige Witwe), “Woglinde” (Rheingold), “Zerlina” (Don Giovanni), “Lisa” (Sonnambula) at Vlaamse Opera (Gent/Antwerpen) ; and “Blondchen” (Entführung), “Ernestine” (Monsieur Choufleuri/Offenbach), “Sophie” (Werther) and "1. Blumenmädchen" (Parsifal) at La Monnaie Brussels.
In concert she has been heard with Flemish Radio Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders, the Philharmonique Orchestra of Liège (Brahms, Requiem), the National Orchestra of Belgium (Mahler 4), l’Ensemble Orchestral de Paris (at Théâtre des Champs Elysées), the Camerata Academica Salzburg (Mahler 4), R.S.O./O.R.F. (B. de Billy) in "Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher" by Honegger at Vienna's Musikverein & Brucknerhaus Linz with R.S.O./O.R.F. (B. de Billy), das Neue Orchester (at TCE, Paris) and the Residentie Orkest The Hague (R. Strauss-Lieder).
CV-update: Season 2011/2012 (please contact us to get the latest update of Hendrickje's biography)
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