Ellen Valkenburg & Maurice Lammerts van Bueren
Biography Ellen Valkenburg & Maurice Lammerts van Bueren
Maurice Lammerts van Bueren
The Dutch pianist, Maurice Lammerts van Bueren, studied under Jan Wijn (solo) and Ludmilla Baslawskaja (chamber music) at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. As a lieder accompanist, he had lessons with Rudolf Jansen and Graham Johnson et al.Maurice Lammerts van Bueren has devoted his career completely to the accompaniment of singers. He performed with vocalists such as Angelika Kirchschlager, Lilian Farahani, Ellen Valkenburg, Henk Neven, Robert Holl, Minho Jeong, Thomas Oliemans, Florieke Beelen, Ekaterina Levental, Esther Kuiper, Sven Weyens, Marcel Reijans, Aldona Bartnik, Henriette Feith, Karolina Hartman and Hans Pieter Herman. Future plans bring new collaborations with the French soprano Myriam Arbouz and the Estonian soprano Maria Valdmaa, amongst others. He is the founder and pianist of the Coco Collectief, a vocal ensemble that focuses on art-song.
Before he focused completely on accompanying vocalists, Maurice Lammerts van Bueren also performed regularly as a chamber musician. As the pianist of Trio Suleika (2001-2014), he won the Kersjes Award, Holland’s most prestigious chamber music award, and the Vriendenkrans, awarded by the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. He has been working with artists such as the violinists Frederieke Saeijs, Theo Olof, Herman Krebbers and members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. His concerts took him to Belgium, Germany, France, Poland, Sweden, Slovenia, Taiwan, Trinidad, Syria and the USA.
He recorded several CD’s with artists and ensembles such as: Angelika Kirchschlager, Trio Suleika, violinist Frederieke Saeijs, mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Levental and the Coco Collectief. In 2018/2019 four new CD’s were released: with mezzo-soprano Florieke Beelen and baritone Hans Pieter Herman (Schumann’s complete Myrten); with soprano Aldona Bartnik (Polish songs and mazurkas by Chopin, Paderewski and Szymanowski); songs from Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn with mezzo-soprano Esther Kuiper and baritone Sven Weyens and the music/photography-production WOMAN - the making of… with soprano Lilian Farahani. The latter received the label 'Critic's choice' in the leading magazine Opera News. In januari 2021 the CD 'Les Apaches' with soprano Ellen Valkenburg will be released at the label Zefir Records.
Maurice Lammerts van Bueren is a Steinway Artist since 2008. As a coach he works at the singing department of the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague.
Besides his passion for music, Maurice Lammerts van Bueren is an animated portrait photographer, he regularly shoots portraits of artists and musicians.
