Masques & Damien Guillon

It will not be necessary to introduce loyal visitors to deSingel to the virtuoso countertenor Damien Guillon. The list of conductors he works with reads like a who’s who of modern baroque playing. He earned his spurs as a Bach performer with Philippe Herreweghe, Masaaki Suzuki and others. His repertoire covers the whole spectrum: he sings intimist songs with flair, knows how to make religious music moving, and is vivaciously brilliant at pulling out all the stops in the all-embracing baroque spectaculars that we sometimes call opera.
In this concert, he will be presenting a programme for connoisseurs together with the young cubs of the Canadian ensemble Masques. Well-known work by Bach alongside such hidden gems as a superb, serene aria by Buxtehude and one of the few compositions by Johann Christoph Bach that has come down to us. This music, with all its rhetorical emotion, might have been written specially for Damien Guillon. A natural eloquence, subtle expressiveness and a velvety sound are combined with intelligence and refinement.