Jaap ter Linden

Jaap ter Linden ( born April 10, 1947 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch cellist, viol player and conductor.

Life

Jaap ter Linden, one of the pioneers of historical performance practice, his career began in the early sixties as a cellist of the newly formed Netherlands Chamber Orchestra under Szymon Goldberg. Shortly thereafter, he with Ton Koopman and the Lucy van Dael Barockviolinistin the chamber ensemble " Musica da Camera " founded. He also was an early cellist of Musica Antiqua Köln, starred in The English Concert and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. In 2000 he founded the "Mozart Akademie Amsterdam ," with the he recorded the complete Mozart symphonies. As a guest conductor he has led numerous playing on original instruments orchestras, such as the German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen, the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the European Union Baroque Orchestra ( EUBO ) and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. He also conducted opera performances, such as Henry Purcell 's King Arthur and Christoph Willibald Gluck 's Iphigénie en Aulis.

Other chamber music partners were the pianist Ronald Brautigam, the violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch, Andrew Manze, Simon Standage and John Holloway and harpsichordist Richard Egarr and the Lars Ulrik Mortensen. With Egarr he played a Bach's sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord, with Egarr and Manze Bach's violin sonatas. With Mortensen and Holloway, he played a Dietrich Buxtehude's trio sonatas for violin, viola da gamba and basso continuo, and with Ton Koopman The Cello Sonatas by Pieter Hellendaal.

In addition to various visiting professorships teaches and he taught at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam and at the Academy of Ancient Music in Würzburg.