Tinka Pypker & Maurice Lammerts van Bueren
Biography Tinka Pypker & Maurice Lammerts van Bueren
Tinka Pypker
graduated from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in 2019, where she studied with Lenie van den Heuvel, she obtained her bachelor’s degree with distinctions for artistic maturity, vocal imagination and versatility. She also won the “Fock medaille” for the best final exam of the Royal Conservatory.
Tinka sings a large variety of styles, ranging from early baroque to contemporary music. She is regularly a soloist in oratorio works. In November 2018, Tinka won first prize in the Early Music Young Ensemble Competition, as a duo with fortepianist Anders Muskens.
In the operatic field, Tinka has experience singing roles such as Papagena in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, La Fortuna and Venere in Monteverdi’s “L’incoronazione di Poppea” and La Speranza in L’Orfeo, led by Michael Chance. She also sung the leading role “Lana” in the short contemporary opera “Kijk op voor de val” by Eyal Margalit in the Opera Forward Festival of the Dutch National Opera. From September 2019, Tinka was part of the Dutch National Opera Academy where she studied with Catrin Wyn-Davies. She had her debut at the academy as Amy in Mark Adamo’s Little Women in January 2020. Although the pandemic has caused the cancellations of two main productions, she got the opportunities to perform Pamina’s aria “Ach, ich fühl’s” from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, with the Residency Orchestra, led by Felix Bender; the role of Maguelonne in Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon; and, as her graduation from the academy, she performed the role of Rosalinde, in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss Jr. In September 2021, Tinka made her debut at the Dutch National Opera, in a main stage production of Zemlinksy’s Der Zwerg, as Zweite Mädchen, under the baton of Lorenzo Viotti. She was associate artist of the DNO Studio for the duration of the production. Tinka regulary performs lied recitals, as a duo with pianist Maurice Lammerts van Bueren and fortepianist Anders Muskens. She also frequently works with Das Neue Mannheimer Orchester. In 2020, she recorded three arias with them, on their album Army of Generals, Vol. 1.
Maurice Lammerts van Bueren
The Dutch pianist, Maurice Lammerts van Bueren, studied under Jan Wijn (solo) and Ludmilla Baslawskaja (chamber music) at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. As a lieder accompanist, he had lessons with Rudolf Jansen and Graham Johnson.
Maurice Lammerts van Bueren has devoted his career fullheartedly to the accompaniment of singers. Currently he works intensively with singers like Lilian Farahani, Ellen Valkenburg, Henriette Feith and Noëlle Drost. Other leading vocalists with whom he shared the stage are Angelika Kirchschlager, Henk Neven, Robert Holl, Minho Jeong, Thomas Oliemans, Peter Gijsbertsen, Florieke Beelen, Ekaterina Levental, Esther Kuiper, Marcel Reijans, Aldona Bartnik, Anne van Amerongen and Hans Pieter Herman.
He cooperates regularly with the Coco Collectief, a vocal ensemble that focuses on art-song.
Before he focused completely on accompanying vocalists, Maurice Lammerts van Bueren also performed regularly as a chamber musician. As the pianist of Trio Suleika (2001-2014), he won the Kersjes Award, Holland’s most prestigious chamber music award, and the Vriendenkrans, awarded by the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. He has been working with artists such as the violinists Frederieke Saeijs, Theo Olof, Herman Krebbers and members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. His concerts took him to Belgium, Germany, France, Poland, Sweden, Slovenia, Taiwan, Trinidad, Syria and the USA.
He recorded 16 CD’s with artists and ensembles such as: Angelika Kirchschlager, Trio Suleika, violinist Frederieke Saeijs, mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Levental, soprano Lilian Farahani, soprano Ellen Valkenburg and the Coco Collectief. In October 2022 the double album 'The Mazurki Project' was released by Zefir Records, including the complete mazurkas by Chopin. During the first week, the album already had been streamed for 60.000 times.
Maurice Lammerts van Bueren is a Steinway Artist since 2008. As a coach he works at the singing department of the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague. As a guest teacher he gave lied classes at the ArtEZ Conservatoire and the HKU Utrecht Conservatoire.
Besides his passion for music, Maurice Lammerts van Bueren is a published portrait photographer, he regularly shoots portraits of artists and musicians.
