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'Dutch singer of elegance and variety' Daily Telegraph, London

"Ank Reinders has the stamp of quality in her singing which makes a recital into an important occasion. This Dutch soprano, who has been heard at Wigmore Hall before, paid a return visit last night in a delightful programme, which hardly included an item from the conventional repertoire.
She sang a number of songs in English, which was as securely idiomatic as were her renderings of Italian, German and French. Two of Hayndn's English songs were elegantly phrased and a charming group was her contemporary compatriot Sas Bunge's settings of 17th - century English songs which included the little masterpiece "Go, lovely rose" .
An unexpected excursion by Hindemith into the English language was his two songs to two texts by Oscar Cox. A warm and unforced voice and a musician line supported Miss Reinders' excellent enunciation of words in all the languages and her artistry was fully complemented by the immaculate accompaniments of Geoffrey Parssons."

'An immensely moving experience' The Irish Times

"Sur le programme figurait une très belle première audition de Pergolèse , le psaume 121, . On y applaudit le beau soprano de Mme Ank Reinders".

Ank Reinders, 1980

Soprano Ank Reinders has performed in Europe and the U.S. in recital, concert and oratorio (Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Poulenc etc.) Dutch composers have written for her and for the performance of these works she has been honoured with the Johan Wagenaar Award. She has never taken the easy way over well-trodden paths: her operational field has included the late Renaissance, the Baroque, the German Lied and French mélodie and dodecaphonic music.

After more than 25 years of singing, Ank Reinders was named head of the voice faculty at the Conservatory of Enschede, and was co-founder and first vice president (now honorary member) of the Dutch Association of Teachers of Singing, (1984-1991) and honorary member of the Dutch Voice Foundation. She is the author of many articles on voice in several Dutch and international music magazines and in the Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2000). She is an associated member of COMET, member of NATS and member of the German Association of teachers of singing (BDG)

Ank Reinders tributed

The main subject of her many lectures is the history of the singing voice, and she lectured from Groningen and Amsterdam to London, from Dresden and Berlin to BesanVon in France, from Stellenbosch in South Africa to Oporto and to Wroclov in Polen .

Recently in 2001 she gave masterclasses for the International Voice Teachers Congress in Helsinki and for the first time for the AFPC (Ass. De Prof. de Chant FranVais) in Paris. She teaches in four languages.

Her book ‘Atlas van de zangkunst’ is now enjoying its fourth edition, with the German translation in its second. She has also translated the Latin texts of the Holy Mass and several liturgical songs into understandable Dutch: “Cantica Latina’.

Recently - January 2006 - Ank wrote for Pro Mozart (the magazine of the Nederlandse Mozart Vereniging/ Dutch Mozart Society) an article, covering the complete edition about Mozart and the Voice. An article of 50 pages about castrates, tenors, sopranos and ... Mozart's own voice.

Ank Reinders during a workshop in London

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