Jos van Immerseel
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Jos Van Immerseel received his musical training from Eugène Traey (piano), Flor Peeters (organ), Lucie Frateur (voice) and Daniel Sternefeld (orchestral conducting). He continued with his own studies in organology and the historical pianofortes. He maintained many contacts with numerous musicians, including René Jacobs, the Wieland brothers, Barthold and Sigiswald Kuijken, Jaap Schröder, Anner Bijlsma, Paul Van Nevel, Guy De Mey and Paul Dombrecht. He founded the Collegium Musicum (1964-1968), which focused on the Renaissance and Baroque repertoire, which was performed on period musical instruments. He also turned to the harpsichord and took Kenneth Gilbert as his mentor. In 1973 he took part (with his original Rükers-Taskin instrument) in the first harpsichord competition in Paris (1973) and was crowned laureate (Premier Prix "à l'unanimité") both by the jury and by the public. [1] Later his commitment to the pianoforte also followed.
He became an internationally recognized soloist and also frequently performed as a chamber musician, together with Claire Chevallier (piano), Chouchane Siranossian (violin), Lisa Shklyaver (clarinet) and Thomas Bauer (baritone).
He then turned out to be a conductor. He focused on Baroque music, including the music of Claudio Monteverdi, but soon he evolved into more recent composers such as Franz Liszt, Francis Poulenc and George Gershwin. He has conducted the Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, the Netherlands Chamber Choir, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the Wiener Akademie, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Tafelmusik Toronto, Mozarteum Salzburg and Musica Florea Prague, among others.
