Elisabeth Hetherington has been named winner of the Dutch Music Prize. The award is the most prestigious recognition for a musician in classical music, awarded by the Performing Arts Fund on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Minister Eppo Bruins will present the award on Friday 4 October 2024 at de Doelen concert hall in Rotterdam.
The committee on Elisabeth Hetherington
The committee was impressed by the sound Elisabeth Hetherington brings to her singing. 'With seemingly effortless suppleness and clarity, she moves through diverse repertoire from the Renaissance, Baroque, to the latest composed music. Elisabeth Hetherington switches with stunning naturalness between intimate and whimsical, hushed and agile. This musical playing surprises the listener, makes her performances engaging and refreshing, and puts the music in a new perspective every time.'
Concert and award ceremony on 7 March
On Friday 4 October, Hetherington will perform a special concert in De Doelen Rotterdam together with the Flemish baroque orchestra B'Rock and HIIIT (formerly Slagwerk Den Haag) and receive the Dutch Music Prize afterwards. The concert is a unique collaboration with two completely different ensembles, bringing together new and old music with her voice. She connects known and unknown works and navigates with ease between music from the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries.
About Elisabeth Hetherington
Since moving to the Netherlands, Canadian soprano Elisabeth Hetherington has built a reputation as a versatile performer and interpreter of contemporary and modern repertoire throughout Europe. She studied Voice Performance at the University of Toronto and obtained her master's degree in Early Music Singing cum laude at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Elisabeth Hetherington works with composers, choreographers and has performed memorable roles with several opera and music theatre companies in the Netherlands, including in The Cherry Orchard, De Vliegende Hollander and Divorce of Figaro. She is also a respected researcher in the field of 'Original Pronunciation of Elizabethan English'. She gives master classes and lectures in Canada and Europe.
About the Dutch Music Prize
Candidates of the Dutch Music Prize follow a study programme focusing on personal musical development. They work together with musicians from home and abroad. At the end of the course, the Dutch Music Prize committee advises the Performing Arts Fund whether the prize can be awarded. The committee consists of: Mauricio Fernandez, Ad 's-Gravesande, Marcel Mandos, Simone Meijer, Bart Visman, Ralph van Raat and Karin Manuel as independent chairman.
Previous winners of the Dutch Music Prize included organist Laurens de Man, baritone Raoul Steffani, recorder player Lucie Horsch, mezzo-soprano Jard van Nes and pianist Ronald Brautigam.
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