““Wat hij zo mooi doet, is: hij staat onmiddellijk in de sfeer van dat lied...””

Benjamin Bakker - conductor
Rotterdams Barok Ensemble
Barokorkest La Follia
Lauren Armishaw - soprano
Oscar Verhaar - altus
Leon van Liere - tenor
Vincent Kusters - bass (Christus)
Matthew Baker - bass
Kamerkoor Maastircht
Hans Leenders
Mark Heines - evangelist
Vincent Kusters - Christ
Alina Palus - soprano
Nima Pournaghsband - altus
Laurens Alexander Wyns - tenor
Juan Tello y Soto - bass
Toonkunstkoor Roermond
Barokorkest Concerto Vivo
Pieter Cox - conductor
Knut Schoch - evangelist
Hans Christian Hinz - Christ
Tanya Aspelmeier- soprano
Marie Seidler - altus
Pascal Pittie - tenor
Vincent Kusters - bass
Vincent Kusters - baritone
Peter Caelen - piano
Oost-Nederlands Symfonieorkest
Carina Vinke - mezzo-soprano
Mitch Raemaekers - tenor
Vincent Kusters - bass
Oost-Nederlands Symfonieorkest
Carina Vinke - mezzo-soprano
Mitch Raemaekers - tenor
Vincent Kusters - bass
Vincent Kusters - baritone
Ed Spanjaard - piano
Mikayel Voskanyan - cello
Kamerkoor Maastricht & Hans Leenders - conductor

““Vincent ist ein Sänger, dem ich wirklich jedes Wort, das er singt, glaube. Eine absoluter Ausnahmekünstler.””
The Dutch baritone Vincent Kusters is a sought-after concert and lieder singer who feels at home in both oratorio and opera and has a great affinity with classical song.
He sang as a soloist in numerous orchestral productions, like the Passions of Bach, the oratorios of Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn, masses by Mozart and Britten, but also works by contemporaries like Jenkins, Rutter and Chillcot.
He has won many prizes for his song interpretation which led to countless song recitals at home and abroad, including during the renowned Oxford International Song Festival(GB). Vincent is also a returning singer at the International Lied Festival Zeist (NL) and the International Lied Festival Vocallis (NL).
For a more extended CV click here.
““Vincent heeft een stem van grote kwaliteit en is daarbij een uitmuntend en veelzijdig musicus.””
News
(Translated to English)
By Maurice Wiche
Vincent Kusters is a singer, pianist, organist and choir conductor and gives singing lessons to a number of monks in the Benedictine abbey in Mamelis. But his heart is in singing the song. On Friday he will perform pieces by living Limburg composers in the Dominicanen bookstore in Maastricht. “I never wanted to put myself in a box.”
During the ‘Liedkunst im Schloss vor Husum’ festival Vincent Kusters and Charlie Bo Meijering won the 'Johann-Max-Böttcher-Preis' (first prize) as well as the prize for providing a concert that will take place on April 19, 2024 in the Landesvertretung Schleswig-Holstein in Berlin.
They took part in the master class and were allowed to present themselves during the final concert, in which all candidates competed for a number of coveted prizes.
The duo Kusters-Meijering also won the first prize in 2021. As a result, they were invited to provide the opening concert during the 22nd edition of the festival, together with organizers Ulf Bästlein (baritone) and Charles Spencer (piano). They performed, among others, the moving cycle 'Six Songs from a Shropshire Lad' (Butterworth), as well as the comical and little performed 'Die four Temperamente bei dem Verlust der Geliebten' (Weber).
Vincent Kusters and his duo partner Suzuha Hirayama (piano) participated during an intensive four day-long Masterclass, the so-called 2022 Piano Academy of the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland. The masters were Sir András Schiff and Kammersänger Robert Holl. It was an inspiring, interesting and highly educative course high up in the beautiful Alpes. An unforgettable experience!
Vincent Kusters and his duo-partner Charlie Bo Meijering competed during the first edition of the Internationalen Lied-Wettbewerbes Bolko von Hochberg 2022 "Hellas", in the beautiful city of Görlitz, from 12-16 Juni 2022. After reaching the finals they won the special prize for ‘die beste Interpretation eines Schubert-Liedes’. They won the prize because they impressed especially with a ‘refined and deep interpretation of the Schubert-Lieder’.
Photo: Matthias Wehnert
On Friday 22 October, Vincent Kusters and Charlie Bo Meijering won the Young Artist Platform organised by Internationaal Liedfestival Zeist. Six young, professional lied-duos, preselected by a jury, presented themselves to the the audience and a jury consisting of: Micha van Weers, Yoram Ish-Hurwitz, Elly Ameling, Robert Holl and Annett Andriessen. The prize consists of a recital during the Oxford Lieder Festival in October 2022 and the sixth International Lied Festival Zeist in May 2022.
The 20th masterclass for lied “Liedkunst im Schloss vor Husum” was held from the 26th until the 31st of July 2021. The lessons were given by renowned musicians and lied interpreters, baritone Ulf Bästlein and pianist Charles Spencer. Vincent Kusters and his duo partner Charlie Bo Meijering attended this year’s edition, and were awarded with the first prize for best lied duo.
Het Internationaler Schumann Wettbewerb 2020 werd vanwege de coronapandemie verplaatst naar 2021. Wegens de toen nog geldende maatregelen heeft het concours volledig online plaatsgevonden. Vincent Kusters heeft met zijn duo-partner pianist Charlie Bo Meijering deelgenomen en met als prachtig resultaat dat hij prijswinnaar is van het concours.
Vincent is de komende tijd te zien en te horen in de jongtalentproductie Magelone & Peter van de Nederlandse Reisopera. Het is een muzikale short story over de schoonheid van sleur en over trouwe liefde, met liederen uit de cyclus Die schöne Magelone van Johannes Brahms (1869). Lees hier een recensie en een interview.
Op 15 en 16 september 2020 vond in Neuss (De) het “5. Internationaler Wettbewerb für Orgel und Gesang” plaats. Vincent nam samen met Nick Goudkuil (Orgel) deel aan dit bijzonder concours, met als resultaat een eerste prijs.
In het najaar van 2018 werd Vincent toegelaten tot de solistenlijst van de Vereniging Vrienden van het Lied. Voor hem voelde dat als een erkenning van zijn vakmanschap, want: ‘Kijk je naar de zangers en pianisten die aan de Vrienden van het Lied verbonden zijn, dan staan daar grote namen tussen. Wanneer je daar dan als jonge zanger bij mag komen, geeft dat aan dat je een bepaalde kwaliteit vertegenwoordigt.’

Recordings
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5:50Vincent Kusters & Charlie Bo Meijering
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2:34Vincent Kusters & Suzuha Hirayama
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3:22Vincent Kusters & Suzuha Hirayama
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3:39Vincent Kusters & Suzuha Hirayama