Francine van der Heijden

Francine van der Heijden was trained as a solo singer at conservatoires in Maastricht, the Hague and London.
She then went on to study at the Britten Pears School in Aldeburgh and at the International Opera Centre in the Netherlands, participating in various master classes. She is currently being coached by Meinard Kraak and Peter Nilson. Francine has contributed to a respectable number of CDs and television recordings and has  collaborated with conductors such as Ton Koopman, Jos van Veldhoven, Oleg Caetani, Peter Eötvös and Jed Wentz. She performs both at home and abroad as a lied and opera singer.