Jan Willem de Vriend studied the violin at the conservatoires of Amsterdam and The Hague. During this time there, he already conducted several opera productions, such as Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauß and Silbersee by Kurt Weil. In 1982 he established the Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, an ensemble that focuses on the performance of 17th and 18th-century music. As a violinist and artistic director he has directed many remarkable concerts and opera productions in the Netherlands, and also in a number of countries across Europe, in North and South America and in Japan. With the Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, he features on numerous CDs and in many recordings for radio and television, a number of which were highly acclaimed in Dutch reviews. De Vriend was guest concertmaster with Camerata Bern and Ensemble Oriol Berlin, among others. In addition to his activities with Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Jan Willem de Vriend regularly acts as the guest conductor of the Dutch Chamber Orchestra, the Brabant Orchestra, the Gelders Orchestra, the Noord Nederlands Orchestra and the Limburg Symphony Orchestra. He has made recordings for radio, television and CDs with the Radio Chamber Orchestra and the Brabant Orchestra. Abroad, he has conducted the RIAS Jugend Orchester and the Deutsche Kammer Philharmonie, among others. Opera has always played an important part in Jan Willem de Vriend’s activities. He directed various co-productions (Händel’s Rodelinda and Alcina, Monteverdi’s L’incoronnazione di Poppea and L’Orfeo, Purcell’s King Arthur and Dido and Aeneas) with the Onafhankelijk Toneel theatre company, Huis aan de Amstel and the Nationale Reisopera. Moreover, he conducted Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Opéra du Rhin in Strassbourg, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at the Luzern Opera and the opera Der Stein der Weisen as directed by Eva Buchmann, and he made an extensive tour of the Netherlands with Die Fledermaus (Strauss). During the 2003/2004 season, Jan Willem de Vriend was invited by the Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Beethoven Academy, the Dutch Chamber Orchestra, the Gelders Orchestra, the Brabant Orchestra, the Noord Nederlands Orchestra, the Limburg Symphony Orchestra, and he conducted Jan van Vlijmen’s version of Die Kunst der Fuge played by members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, recorded on CD. Since 2006/2007 Jan Willem de Vriend has taken up the position of principal conductor and artistic director of the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra (Orkest van het Oosten). Furthermore he has accepted invitations to conduct the Concertgebouw Orkest, Mozarteum Orchester, Duisburger Symphoniker, Wiener Concert Verein, Residentie Orkest, Noord Nederlands Orkest en Het Brabants Orkest.
version: July 15, 2008
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