Höll, Jard van Nes and Henk Smit. Recently he was named a candidate for the coveted Dutch Music Prize. In May 2008, Henk Neven won the Fortis MeesPierson Award. The jury declared "Neven has the potential to grow into a sensational artist".


In addition to lieder and oratoria Henk Neven has sung in many operas, performing such roles as Marco in Gianni Schicchi (in Dresden), Don Alfonso in Cosí fan tutte, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Graaf Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas, Schaunard in La boheme (Dijon) by Puccini, Ben in The Telephone and Mr. Gobineau in The Medium by Menotti, Mars in Vénus et Adonis by Desmererst (Nancy, in addition to a cd recording under the baton of Christophe Rousset) and Pollux in Castor et Pollux by Rameau (De Nederlandse Opera in a staging by Pierre Audi).


He has worked with well-known ensembles such as the Orchestra of the Beethovenhalle in Bonn, Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Het Brabants Orkest, het Orkest van de Nederlandse Bachvereniging (in which he performed the role of Christ in the Matthäus Passion), het Rotterdams Philharmonic Orkest, het Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, het Radio Kamer Filharmonie, Het Vlaams Radio Orkest, L’Orchestre National de France, L’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre d’Opéra National de Paris, Staatskapelle Berlin, L’ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Les Concerts Spirituels and Les Talens Lyriques. He has worked with conductors such as Edo de Waart, Jaap van Zweden, Jos van Veldhoven, Jan Willem de Vriend, Hervé Niquet, Emanuel Krivine, Kenneth Montgommery, Joel Levi, Paulo Olmi, Armin Jordan, John Nelson, Ed Spanjaard, Marc Soustrot and Christophe Rousset.


Henk Neven has performed in the Festival Oude Muziek in Utrecht and the Gergiev Festival in Rotterdam. In the ZaterdagMatinee series in the Concertgebouw, he has sung Vanessa (Barber), Bakchantinen (Wellesz), Jérusalem (Verdi), Flammen (Schulhoff) and as Roucher in Andrea Chenier (Giordani).
During the 2004/2005 season he gave recitals with cellist Jan Bastiaan Neven and pianist Jelger Blanken as part of the concert series 'Het Debuut' (The Debut). In the Robeco summer series of the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) he performed the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni in addition to giving a recital in the Kleine Zaal with pianist Hans Eijsackers. Recently Neven also performed with this pianist in the concert series 'Jonge Nederlanders' in the Concertgebouw.
In July 2004 he made his debut in Strauss’ Capriccio at the Opéra National de Paris and in December 2004 he performed with Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper Berlin Unter den Linden as Morales in Bizet’s Carmen. He has been a guest in many opera houses in Europe, including Le Duo de Dijon, Le Grand Théatre de Bordeaux, L’Opéra National de Montpellier and Het Nederlands Muziektheater. In the Notre Dame in Paris he sung the role of Joseph in L’Enfance du Christ by Hector Berlioz, conducted by John Nelson.


His future opera engagements include the roles of Pollux in Castor et Pollux (Rameau) and Frère Léon in St. François d’Assise (Messiaen) with De Nederlandse Opera and Leporello in Don Giovanni (Mozart) with L’Opéra National de Montpellier. In the ZaterdagMatinee in the Concertgebouw he has been invited to sing in La chute de la maison Usher (l’ami) by Debussy and in Roméo et Juliette (Mercutio) by Gounod. With L’Orchestre de Chambre de Genève he will perform lieder by Schubert in an orchestration by Webern.


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