Vincent has soloed in numerous orchestral productions, including Bach's great oratorios and numerous of his cantatas, the oratorios of Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn, masses by Mozart, Beethoven and Britten, as well as works by contemporaries such as Jenkins, Rutter and Chillcot.
Vincent graduated in voice and piano at the Maastricht Academy of Music , with Mya Besselink and Joop Celis respectively, and attended several international master classes. As a song interpreter, he won many prizes at international competitions, including the Vocallis Liedprijs (Vaals, 2017 and 2018) and he is a prize winner of the Schumann Wettbewerb (Zwickau, 2020/2021). Together with his duo partner pianist Charlie Bo Meijering won the ‘Friends of the IVC‘ prize (‘s-Hertogenbosch, 2019), and twice in a row the 1st prize at ’Liedkunst im Schloss vor Husum‘ (2021/2023), the ’Young Artist Platform‘ of International Lied Festival Zeist (2021) and the prize for ’die beste Interpretation eines Schubert-Liedes‘ at the Ersten Internationalen Lied-Wettbewerbes Bolko von Hochberg 2022 ’Hellas', which led to numerous performances at home and abroad, including at the renowned Oxford International Song Festival (GB). Vincent is also a recurring singer at the International Song Festival Zeist (NL) and the International Song Festival Vocallis (NL).
As a pianist, Vincent focuses on accompanying singing. He is also a member of the Schola Maastricht and connected to three churches in and around Maastricht as organist, conductor and cantor. Since 2023, Vincent has been artistic director of the J.M. Vogl Foundation ‘for the art of singing’.
Vincent Kusters, baritone
Charlie Bo Meijering, piano
After winning the first Young Artist Platform of the International Song Festival Zeist in 2021, Vincent and Charlie Bo were invited to perform a concert in both the upcoming Zeist festival and the Oxford Lieder Festival. In 2022, the theme of the latter festival was ‘Friendship in song’. This theme inspired them to put together a programme highlighting the friendship within the composer's circle of artists and those involved in the creation and performance of his songs. Think of the composer's friendship with the poet, with the performers and with other composers.
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Vincent Kusters, baritone
Charlie Bo Meijering, piano
Franz Schubert's beloved song cycle set to poems by Wilhem Müller.
Vincent Kusters, baritone
Charlie Bo Meijering, piano
This recital is entirely devoted to songs on texts by Joseph von Eichendorff.
Eichendorff, a renowned and beloved poet of the German language, knows how to touch many people with his accessible and relatively straightforward poems.
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Vincent Kusters, baritone
Charlie Bo Meijering, piano
Vincent Kusters and Charlie Bo Meijering are great admirers of Franz Schubert's music. After a highly successful series of performances of Schubert's other great cycle Die Schöne Müllerin - also on texts by Wilhelm Müller - the two have now latched onto the masterpiece Winterreise. One of Schubert's most famous works and perhaps the cycle of the entire song repertoire. Will you come and listen?
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Vincent Kusters, baritone
Charlie Bo Meijering, piano
Fiat Voluntas Tua - Thy Will Be Done is a programme of religious music and songs with themes of faith, hope and love, offers listeners the opportunity to pause and reflect on the deeper aspects of life. The broad palette of emotions makes this religious music accessible to everyone, believer or not. You will listen to works by Cornelius, Brahms, Milhaud and Vaughan Williams. It is a programme ideally suited to the passion period and Easter.
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Vincent Kusters, baritone
Charlie Bo Meijering, piano
In the song recital titled ‘I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope’, Vincent Kusters and Charlie Bo Meijering will take you on distant journeys, in the broadest sense of the word; in a literal as well as an emotional sense. Like the journey of life, marked by periods of happiness and adversity. The programme includes works by Schubert, Vaughan Williams, Poulenc and Von Weber.
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Vincent Kusters, baritone
Charlie Bo Meijering, piano
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) is one of the most important composers of the 20th century. With Claude Debussy, he is among the most important impressionists and is also considered a forerunner of expressionism.
2025 marks the 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel's birth in Ciboure, French Basque Country. To mark the occasion, this programme has been put together, consisting of five complete song cycles. Three are by Ravel himself, one by his composition teacher Gabriel Fauré and one cycle by his main student : Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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