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Harry van der Kamp dies. · Spoken News

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Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News, where Wikipedia excerpts are read verbatim
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by a computer. Harry Vanderkamp dies Harry Vanderkamp was a
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Dutch bass singer in opera and concert. He sang in
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choir with Capella Amsterdam that he co founded, and from
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nineteen seventy four for decades with the Nederlands Camacoorps. He
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performed thirty roles with the Dutch National Opera, mostly in
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Baroque opera, but also contemporary works. He worked as a
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soloist with prominent ensembles of historically informed performance. Van de
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Camp founded the Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam in nineteen eighty four
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in order to perform less known madrigals of the sixteenth
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and seventeenth centuries. He led them in recording the complete
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vocal works by Jan Peter Zoon Swellink, which changed the
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view on the composer and earned him the Order of
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the Netherlands Lion. He was also an academic voice teacher.
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