Toonkunst Philharmonic Choir

Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam is led by conductor and artistic director Boudewijn Jansen. Jansen studied the piano and orchestral conducting at the Utrecht Conservatory, in addition participating in the opera studio of the National Touring Opera in Enschede. After completing his studies, he became the music director and conductor of the Netherlands Chamber Opera Foundation. With this company, he conducted among other things Die Zauberflöte, Carmen, Die Kluge and Hänsel und Gretel. Since 1994, Jansen has been on the DNO staff as assistant conductor and repetiteur. He has assisted Hartmut Haenchen, Sir Simon Rattle, Pierre Boulez, Gennady Rozhdestvensky and Edo de Waart and conducted the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Holland Symfonia, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 1991, he has led the Chamber Choir of the Vrije Universiteit. That choir often performs with the VU-Camerata project orchestra, which he founded. With the VU Chamber Choir, Jansen won the TENSO days for modern music in 2009. In early 2011, he was named artistic director of the Netherlands Concert Choir in Amsterdam. He is the music director of the Poorters Festival in Amersfoort and since 2000 has annually served as music director of the Utrecht Oudegracht Opera Concert. He was the choral conducting teacher at the Europa Cantat Festival in 2009.