Jan Van Elsacker

Jan Van Elsacker won first prizes in both singing and piano at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp, and began collaborating at a young age with Philippe Herreweghe, Gustav Leonhardt, Sigiswald Kuijken, and Jos van Immerseel. Today, Jan Van Elsacker regularly performs with Le Poème Harmonique (Vincent Dumestre), L'Arpeggiata (Christina Pluhar), Akademia (Françoise Lasserre), Weser Renaissance (Manfred Cordes), and La Fenice (Jean Tubéry). In 1996 he was a prize winner at the Musica Antiqua Competition in Bruges. In 2003 he was a central figure at the Musica Antiqua Festival of Bruges, where in addition to performing the Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Monteverdi), he gave a Schumann recital with the pianist Claire Chevallier. In January 2008, he made his debut as Orfeo (Monteverdi) at the National Opera House in Poland with the ensemble La Fenice.

"An exceptional Evangelist who gives breathtaking presence to the text," Jan Van Elsacker is highly sought after to perform the Passions of Johann Sebastian Bach, yet his refined sensitivity also fits perfectly with Italian monody of the early 17th century. Recently, Jan Van Elsacker has become a professor at the University of Music in Trossingen.

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