Maartje Rammeloo

Maartje Rammeloo completed her master's degree cum laude, specialising in classical music theatre. Besides various opera engagements, Maartje is also in great demand as a soloist on the concert stage.
Maartje Rammeloo-soprano

biography

Maartje Rammeloo completed her master's degree cum laude, specialising in classical music theatre. She studied with Hanneke Kaasschieter and Jard van Nes and took master classes with Montserrat Caballé, Raoul Gimenez, Elly Ameling, Petra Lang and at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Edith Wiens, among others.

At the International Vocal Competition in ’s-Hertogenbosch, Maartje Rammeloo received the Staetshuys Fund Prize and she won the 1e prize at the Erna Spoorenberg Competition. After this, she was a prize winner at the famous Hans Gabor Belvedère Competition and was in the finals of the Montserrat Caballé Competition in Zaragoza and the Wilhelm Stenhammer Competition in Sweden.

Maartje Rammeloo sings roles as Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Marzelline (Fidelio) and Lucy (The Telephone) at opera houses such as the Aalto Theatre in Essen, festival Aix-en-Provence and Götenborg Opera. In the Netherlands, Maartje Rammeloo appeared, among others, as Comtesse Adèle (Le comte Ory), Cunegonde (Candide) at the Nederlandse Reisopera and Prêtresse (Iphigénie and Tauride) at the National Opera, where she worked with director Pierre Audi and conductor Marc Minkowski with his Musiciens du Louvre. After this, she was invited back to Amsterdam as the first Blumenmädchen in Wagner's Parsifal and as understudy for the title role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.

Besides these operatic engagements, Maartje is also in great demand as a soloist on the concert stage. In versatile repertoire from Bach to Bernstein, she has worked with conductors such as James Gaffigan, Markus Stenz, Skip Sempé, Jac van Steen, Tomáš Netopil and Anthony Hermus.

At the audition in October 2019, she, along with pianist Mark van Nispen, admitted to the list of musicians of Friends of Song. From 2025, she collaborates with pianist Michelle Lynne.

programmes

Maartje Rammeloo, soprano
Mark van Nispen, piano

This programme is subtitled Spleen et idéal - the Russian soul and includes French and Russian music. Before the interval, songs by Debussy and Fauré on texts by Verlaine will be heard. After the interval, songs by Rimsky-Korsakov and Rachmaninov will be featured.

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Maartje Rammeloo, soprano
Michelle Lynne, piano

This programme features songs around the theme of nature, earth, origins and impermanence and is a mystical hymn to birth and death including Aaron Copland's Emily Dickinson Songs, songs by Pfitzner and Strauss's Vier letzte Lieder.

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