Philippe Herreweghe

Category:dirigent, artistiek leider
Gent, 02.05.1947
Genre(s):barok, oude muziek, classicisme, romantiek, 20ste eeuw
Conductor of:Collegium Vocale Gent

Biography

Philippe Herreweghe was born in Ghent and studied at both the university and music conservatory there, studying piano with Marcel Gazelle. During this period he started conducting and founded Collegium Vocale Gent in 1970. He was invited by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt, who had noticed his innovative work, to participate in their recordings of the complete cantatas of J.S. Bach.

Herreweghe’s energetic, authentic and rhetorical approach to baroque music was soon drawing praise. In 1977 he founded the ensemble La Chapelle Royale in Paris, with whom he performed music of the French Golden Age. From 1982 to 2002 he was artistic director of the Académies Musicales de Saintes. During this period, he founded several ensembles with whom he made historically appropriate and well-thought-out interpretations of repertoire stretching from the Renaissance to contemporary music. They include the Ensemble Vocal Européen, specialised in Renaissance polyphony, and the Orchestre des Champs Élysées, founded in 1991 with the aim of playing pre-Romantic and Romantic repertoire on original instruments. Since 2009, Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent have been actively working on the development of a large European-level symphonic choir. Since 2001 Philippe Herreweghe is artistic director of the Accademia delle Crete Senesi, from 2017 onwards known as the Collegium Vocale Crete Senesi festival in Tuscany, Italy.

Philippe Herreweghe continually seeks out new musical challenges, and has been very active performing the great symphonic repertoire, from Beethoven to Stravinsky. Since 1997 he is attached to the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra (deFilharmonie)) both as principal and guest conductor. He is also in great demand as a guest conductor with orchestras such as Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra or the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich. In the upcoming seasons projects with the Staatkapelle Dresden, the Philharmonia orchestra London, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra are planned.

Over the years, Philippe Herreweghe has built up an extensive discography of more than 120 recordings with all these different ensembles, on such labels as Harmonia Mundi France, Virgin Classics and Pentatone. Highlights include the Lagrime di San Pietro of Lassus, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, the complete symphonies of Beethoven and Schumann, Mahler’s song cycle Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Bruckner’s Symphony No. 5, Pierrot Lunaire by Schönberg and the Symphony of Psalms by Stravinsky. In 2010 he founded together with Outhere Music his own label φ (PHI). Since then over 30 new recordings with music from William Byrd till Igor Stravinsky have become available. Recent recordings include Anton Bruckner’s magnificent Te Deum and Second Mass (LPH34), J.S.Bach’s Trauer-Ode (LPH 035) and the Fifth Book of madrigals by Carlo Gesualdo (LPH036).

Philippe Herreweghe has received numerous European awards for his consistent artistic imagination and commitment. In 1990 the European music press named him “Musical Personality of the Year”. Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent were appointed “Cultural Ambassadors of Flanders” in 1993. A year later he was awarded the Belgian order of Officier des Arts et Lettres, and in 1997 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Leuven. In 2003 he received the French title Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur. Lastly, in 2010 the city of Leipzig awarded him its Bach-Medaille for his great service as a performer of Bach. In 2017 Philippe Herreweghe will receive an honorary doctorate at Ghent University. In 2021 Philippe Herreweghe was the recipient of the Ultima, career prize for general cultural merit granted by the Flemish Government.

 

Selective discography

Beethoven - Christus am ÖlbergeBeethoven - Christus am Ölberge (2022)
classicism
Collegium Vocale Gent, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Philippe Herreweghe, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
Monteverdi - Anima dolorosaMonteverdi - Anima dolorosa (2022)
Baroque
Collegium Vocale Gent, Claudio Monteverdi, Philippe Herreweghe
BachBach (2022)
Baroque
Collegium Vocale Gent, Johann Sebastian Bach, Philippe Herreweghe
Stumme Seufzer, stille KlagenStumme Seufzer, stille Klagen (2022)
Baroque, romanticism
Staatskapelle Dresden, Johann Sebastian Bach, Philippe Herreweghe, Giuseppe Verdi, Hector Berlioz, Gustav Mahler
Gesualdo: Dolcissima mia vita, Madrigali a cinque voci, Libro quintoGesualdo: Dolcissima mia vita, Madrigali a cinque voci, Libro quinto (2021)
Baroque
Collegium Vocale Gent, Carlo Gesualdo, Philippe Herreweghe
J.S. Bach - Meins Lebens LichtJ.S. Bach - Meins Lebens Licht (2021)
Baroque
Collegium Vocale Gent, Johann Sebastian Bach, Philippe Herreweghe
Anton Bruckner: Mass No.2 in E minor & Te DeumAnton Bruckner: Mass No.2 in E minor & Te Deum (2020)
romanticism
Collegium Vocale Gent, Anton Bruckner, Philippe Herreweghe, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
Bach: Johannes-Passion, BWV 245Bach: Johannes-Passion, BWV 245 (2020)
Baroque
Collegium Vocale Gent, Johann Sebastian Bach, Philippe Herreweghe
Schumann: Symphonies nos. 2 & 4Schumann: Symphonies nos. 2 & 4 (2019)
romanticism
Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Robert Schumann, Philippe Herreweghe
Bach - Sonn und SchildBach - Sonn und Schild (2018)
Baroque
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe, Johann Sebastian Bach

Author of

Collegium Vocale Gent Philippe HerrewegheCollegium Vocale Gent Philippe Herreweghe (2022)
Klassiek
Joep Stapel, Luc De Voogdt, Philippe Herreweghe
Philippe Herreweghe - La confiance
Philippe Herreweghe - La confiance
Muzikale uitwegenMuzikale uitwegen (1995)
Klassiek
Philippe Herreweghe
Roland de LassusRoland de Lassus (1988)
oude muziek
Philippe Herreweghe
J.S. Bach
J.S. Bach

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Documents:40 collegium vocale gent 1970-2010 (book)
Philippe Herreweghe (biography)
Collegium Vocale Gent Philippe Herreweghe (book)