Patrick Van Goethem

The Belgian countertenor Patrick Van Goethem studied under Paul Esswood, Julia Hamari and Andreas Scholl. He specializes in early music, with a repertoire that includes vocal works by Heinichen, Monteverdi, Purcell and Zelenka, Bach’s Passions, cantatas and the B-minor Mass, Handel’s Oratorio’s and Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater. His concert schedule has taken him to Europe, North America and Japan. He has appeared with, among others, the Bach Collegium Japan (Masaaki Suzuki), The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (Ton Koopman), Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century (Frans Brüggen), The Netherlands Bach Society (Gustav Leonhardt and Jos van Veldhoven), Bach-Collegium Stuttgart (Helmuth Rilling), Barockorchester Stuttgart (Frieder Bernius), and the Gulbenkian Orchestra (Michel Corboz). Patrick Van Goethem appears at major baroque festivals. and he performs regularly with the baroque ensemble The Flanders Baroque Consort, of which he is a founding member.