Sebastiaan Ammerlaan

Sebastiaan Ammerlaan started singing when he joined the university choir as part of his viola minor at University College Roosevelt in Middelburg. From 2013 he studied classical singing at the HKU Utrecht Conservatory. First with Jón Þorsteinsson and from 2016–2020 with Selma Harkink. From 2020 he will follow the master Ensemble Singing at the Royal Conservatoire with lessons from Harry van Berne (ensemble) and Gerda van Zelm (solo vocals). He was also taught by David Wilson-Johnson, Jasper Schweppe, Irene Verburg, Kaspar Kröner, Marjan Kuiper and Elisabeth Blom. Sebastiaan sings in the Bach Choir of the Netherlands and NKK NXT and sang with Meesters & Gezellen (2016 to 2018), the Dutch National Opera Academy, Muziektheater Hollands Diep, TENSO Europe Chamber Choir and the Zed Chamber Choir. In 2017 he founded the Ensemble Nieuwe Muziek with soprano Veronika Akhmetchina: an ensemble with a constantly changing line-up for performing freshly written music. With soprano Iris Bouman, alto Hester Westra and tenor Dierick Aartsen, he also sings in Ensemble Cantorex, a vocal ensemble specialized in Renaissance and Baroque music. Esther Kronenburg started singing while studying Italian in Utrecht. She took private singing lessons with Naomi Hanai and Renee Kartodirdjo. In 2008 she started studying Early Vocal Music at the Tilburg Conservatory, where she worked on the repertoire of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Early Baroque under Idikó Hajnal. Esther attended masterclasses with, among others, Jill Feldman, Anne Azéma, Johannette Zomer, Raquel Andueza and Evelyn Tubb. She completed her studies in 2012 and has since then received vocal coaching from Xenia Meijer. Esther mainly performs in an ensemble, with an emphasis on music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. She currently works a lot with ensemble Oriana, the Coprario consort and ensemble Profondamente. She has performed extensively with the Hemony ensemble, Trigon, Voces Pauli and Cantores Sancti Gregorii. She forms a regular duo with countertenor Peter van Wolferen.