Stéphan Van Dyck

Born in Brussels, he obtained his Higher Diploma in Voice at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Brussels (class of Ludovic de San) and his degree in Musicology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He then continued his training at the Studio Versailles Opéra with René Jacobs and Rachel Yakar, and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he won a first prize in the class of William Christie.

As a choral singer he has performed with La Chapelle Royale (Ph. Herreweghe), Organum (M. Pérès), Huelgas (P. Van Nevel), Ensemble Clément Janequin (D. Visse), Ensemble Gilles Binchois (D. Vellard), Le Poème Harmonique (V. Dumestre), Akademia (F. Lasserre)…

As a soloist he has distinguished himself singing under the direction of C. Rousset (Les Talens Lyriques), W. Christie (Les Arts Florissants), P. Pierlot (Ricercar Consort), Hervé Niquet (Le Concert Spirituel), Martin Gester (Le Parlement de Musique), Jordi Savall (Le Concert des Nations), Stephen Stubbs (Tragicomedia), Jean Tubéry (La Fenice), Gabriel Garrido (Elyma), Christophe Coin (Ensemble Baroque de Limoges), Skip Sempé (Capriccio Stravagante), Pierre Cao (Arsys Bourgogne), Jean-Luc Impe (Les Menus-Plaisirs du Roy)…

As a concert singer he is regularly invited to many international festivals and has already performed in Prague, Warsaw, St Petersburg, Oslo, Montreal, New York, Jerusalem, Pretoria, Tokyo, La Paz, Santa Cruz…

He has sung the title role in "Don Quichotte" (Boismortier) and "La Provençale" (Duni) at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, as well as the role of Admète in Lully's "Alceste" in Nancy and Dijon; Carlo in Pergolesi's "Lo frate 'nnamorato" at Royaumont; Varo in Handel's "Arminio" in Montpellier and Nîmes; Azor in Grétry's "Zémire et Azor" in Nantes; Mercure in Lully's "Persée" at Ambronay; Eumete in Monteverdi's "Il Ritorno di Ulisse" in Brussels and Amsterdam; the Shepherd in Monteverdi's "Orfeo" in Utrecht; Intelletto in Cavalieri's "Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo" at La Monnaie in Brussels; and Carlos and Tacmas in Rameau's "Les Indes Galantes" in Salamanca. He has often given recitals with pianists Boyan Vodenitcharov and Jean-Pierre Bacq, in Lieder by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Fauré, Hahn… (Brussels, Vienna, Utrecht, Namur…). He is also recognised as one of the specialists of the Evangelist in J. S. Bach's Passions, a role he has performed many times in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Germany. In December 2006 he gave, in Nantes, the première of a contemporary work, "Der Steppenwolf" (opus 19) for solo tenor, choir and piano by the French composer Olivier Penard, under Paul Colléaux. In May 2013 he premiered a cycle of 24 songs for tenor and piano entitled "Les Roses", on poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke and music by the Belgian composer Piet Swerts.

He has taken part in more than seventy-five recordings in a repertoire ranging from the Middle Ages to the Classical period (Harmonia Mundi, Sony, Naxos, Fnac Music, Alpha, Ricercar, Opus 111, Bis, Zig-Zag, Musique en Wallonie, Accent…).

Among others, he has recorded the complete Airs de Cour of Joseph Chabanceau de la Barre with lutenist Stephen Stubbs (Ricercar), Monteverdi's Vespers under Masaaki Suzuki in Japan (Bis), "Il Canzoniere" in duo with Maria Cristina Kiehr under Jean Tubéry (Ricercar), Haydn's "Canzonettas" with Jean-Pierre Bacq (Arsis), Giulio Caccini's "Nuove Musiche" with Christina Pluhar (Musica Ficta), and "Écho de Paris" with Pierre Pitzl's ensemble "Private Musicke" (Accent)…

In 2008 he founded the ensemble "Musica Favola", specialising in 17th- and 18th-century music. With it he has given many concerts and recorded two CDs: Michel Lambert's "Airs de Cour" (Accent, 2010) and Henri Du Mont's "Petits Motets for one, two, three and four voices" (Musique en Wallonie, 2010).

He teaches voice at the Nivelles Academy of Music and at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Brussels. In 2008 he also founded "La Camerata Sprezzatura", the first international school of baroque singing, in the very heart of Brussels, where he gives interpretation classes.

The conservatories of Toulouse, Oslo, Warsaw, Radovljica and The Hague, and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, have already called on him for various masterclasses.