Frau ohne Schatten with March Albrecht!

What a busy month! Before going to the international youth choir festival in Basel, we rounded up this amazing production of die Frau ohne Schatten with the Dutch National Opera. I had the pleasure to work with a wonderful cast of talented young singers again and under the wonderful musical direction of Marc Albrecht! What a bliss! It was beautiful and the audience likes it too !

“De musici van het Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest kunnen niet genoeg geprezen worden om hun vele ingeleefde soli en de overdonderende geluidsuitbarstingen waartoe dirigent Marc Albrecht hen opzweepte. Ook het Koor van de Nationale Opera en het kinderkoor zongen prachtig.” Thea Derks
24 april 2025 from Theaterkrant!

Videos of the International chorale competition CANTEMUS 2024 are out ! Enjoy !

HAN composed by the contemporary talented composer Frieda Gustavs! That piece was re-arranged from her first HAN version 1.0 for us to fit it in the competition program. What a treat to be able to play contemporary music, stage it and do a premiere abroad!

Poulenc one of my favorite composer!

The Kodaly piece, Isten Kovácsa. This one I am particularly grateful for ! We won best interpretation of Kodaly piece with ! It is about God's blacksmith hammering a shoe horse! Enjoy! Thanks Bálint Kasza for your help with the pronunciation !

We spend a good year mastering this difficult arrangement of Las Amarillas with our younger singers but it was worth it ! If you are 12 years old and you can sing las amarillas with such confidence, what a great success!

János Köszöntö. I love that piece where you can feel the Hungarian’s generosity!

Trow back 2022

After Covid in 2022, we went to Neerpeld for an international choir festival and won Gold cum laude with our children choir! It was so much fun ! Souvenirs souvenirs! how time flies!

Music Makes You a Better Reader, says Neuroscience

Nina Kraus, director of the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at Northwestern University and research collaborator on the Harmony Project has spent her life surrounded by music. And, today, she is studying how musical training can harness the brain’s natural plasticity, or adaptiveness, to help students become better overall students and readers, even when they grow up in impoverished environments.
“Music and language skills rely upon auditory processing. Although reading may not be thought of as a primarily auditory activity, its foundation rests on a child making sense of incoming auditory input in order to map speech sounds correctly on to orthographic representations,” says Kraus. “Many of the same aspects of sound processing that are deficient in children with language and learning impairments have been found to be strengthened in those who receive music training, and music-based interventions have demonstrated some success in the remediation of reading problems, too.”

Excerpt from article by Kayt Skukel. Read more at http://magazine.good.is/articles/music-literacy-brain

Faust review press

From Trouw

from Opera Magazine NL

From Volkskrant

Königskinder - a beautiful show with great artists!

scènes of Königskinder, Photo: Monika Rittershaus

The children chorus sang with great energy in Carmen

Het Nieuw Amsterdams Kinderkoor in de productie van Carmen bij de Nationale Opera. Foto:© De Nationale Opera,Bart Grietens

Operamagazine

The critics said about us:

Heerlijk kinderkoor

In de koorscènes van soldaten, fabrieksmeisjes, smokkelaars en overige groepen speelt het Operakoor (ingestudeerd door  Lionel Sow) een belangrijke rol en zingt met geweldig élan. Heerlijk spontaan zingen de jongens en meisjes van het Nieuw Amsterdams Kinderkoor (ingestudeerd door Anaïs de la Morandais) met schetterende stemmen het retteketet-koor om de marcherende soldaten te begeleiden, en demonstreren allerlei gevechtsgebaren.

Recording from 14 september for radio NPO4

invited on Radio NPO4 for the Sunday morning's Spiegelzaal show - concertgebouw

Here is the extract of our moment in the show of Hans van de Boom. What a great experience it was to sing on a radio live show!

Highlights of our only Christmas concert 2021

Due to the government restrictions around COVID19, this concert was our only Christmas concert that year.

A flashback of last april 2021 concert !

Closing the opening ceremony of the biggest Vermeer Exhibition in Dresden

We were honoured to be invite by the region of saxony to perform in front of Angela Merkel and Marc Rutte and all the guests of the opening ceremony of Vermeer’s Exhibition in Dresden last september. You can hear the Nieuw Amsterdams kinder- and jeugdkoor at the end around 1:23 performing our favorite Amsterdams Medley.

Faust (working-Title)

I am very excited to participate in this project under Manoj Kamp and Lisenka Heijboer Castañon’s direction as this is not only the first one after months of no-performances but also because I will be on stage in a golden costume conducting Moon Bridge from Florence Price in a beautiful arrangement made by Meriç Artaç for children choir, piano, celesta and toy piano!

Seal Lullaby from E. Whitacre

With the youth choir and the talentenkoor.

First project for our newly founded Tenoren-Bassen Koor

Summer Project with NVA

The Covid 19 crisis took away a lot of our planed project with the Dutch National Opera like Carmen, Frau ohne Schatten and Mefistofele. Faust (working-title) is a stage concert will take part in and this is one of the song we will sing on stage in september 2020.

the youth choir experiment

Teaser for our october concert... that we hope we can perform depending on the rules on the COVID19.

our first virtual choir experience

NVA supports its students

We encourage our students to keep practicing!

Nutcracker 2019-2020

Pagliacci

Saturday 28 September 2019, 19:00 - 23:00

NTR Opera Live NTR

Presentation: Hein van Eekert

In this broadcast

Complete operas from the large (inter) national opera houses, where possible directly. Pagliacci and Cavalleria rusticana, live and direct from National Opera and Ballet.

TEAM, CAST AND CHORUS

Musical Director: Lorenzo Viotti & Aldert Vermeulen

Stage Director: Robert Carsen

Orchestra: Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

ChorusDutch: National Opera Chorus

Chorus Master: Ching-Lien Wu

Children's Chorus: Nieuw Amsterdams Kinderkoor

Children's Chorus Master: Anaïs de la Morandais