The Dutch mezzo Wilke te Brummelstroete performs an eclectic repertoire that ranges from Baroque works through the classical and romantic periods up to contemporary repertoire. Since her operatic debut as Purcell’s Dido in 1991 she went on to secure a solid reputation working with leading conductors such as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Frans Brüggen, Nicholas McGegan, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Roger Norrington, Ton Koopman, Daniel Harding, Fabio Biondi, Kent Nagano and Christian Thielemann.

Over a period of ten years she has toured the world with Frans Brüggen and his Orchestra of the 18th Century, often as a soloist in all the main Bach Oratoria, in Mozart’s Requiem, in Haydn aria’s and in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. She has worked with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, English Baroque Soloists, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra San Francisco with whom she sang in famous venues and festivals as Royal Albert Hall (BBC Proms 2005 under Gardiner), Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, Wiener Musikverein, Wiener Konzerthaus, Queen Elisabeth Hall, The Barbican, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Hong Kong Arts Festival and Istanbul Festival.

In opera, her roles include Händel’s Teseo (Arianna in Creta), Ruggiero (Alcina), Storgé (Jephtha), Tirinto (Imeneo, Dublin version) and Juno and Ino in Semele; Monteverdi’s Ottavia (L’incoronazione di Poppea) and both Melanto and Penelope in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse; Costanza in Haydn’s L’isola disabitata; and Aristeo in Graun’s Orfeo, sung in Berlin, Brussels, San Francisco, Vienna, Wiesbaden and Zürich as well as at the Händel-Festspiele Göttingen, the Massachusetts International Festival and the Sydney Festival. Wilke sang in Beethoven’s 9th in Théâtre des Champs Elysées (Brüggen, 2006) and recently Wilke made her debut in the Bayreuther Festspiele as Siegrune in the new Ring production in 2006 under Christian Thielemann.

Wilke te Brummelstroete can be heard on many recordings including a disc of Bach cantatas with Sir John Eliot Gardiner (SDG 101) who has won the 2005 Gramophone Record of the Year Award, as well as the Gramophone Baroque Vocal Award 2005! Some other releases are Dido and Aeneas, Bach’s St Matthew Passion (Brüggen), Mozart’s Requiem (Brüggen), Händel’s Arianna in Creta and Jephtha (McGegan), Duruflé’s Requiem, and Constantijn Huygens’ Pathodia sacra et profana.

Wilke’s versatility has afforded her success in performances of romantic repertoire such as Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri, Elgar’s The Kingdom, Berlioz’ Les Nuits d’Eté, Respighi’s Il Tramonto and recently in World Première performance of the chamber opera Protesilaos en Laodamia by Rudolph Escher.

Future engagements include: Concerts with the Concertgebouw Orchestra with Ton koopman in April 2007 and a Monteverdi-cycle with the Dutch National Opera in autumn of 2007.