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The Dutch choral conductor and organist, Richard Vos, started organ lessons at the age of 9. From 1987 to 1993 he studied at the Nederlands Instituut voor Kerkmuziek in Utrecht, where he obtained diplomas for the main subjects of Organ and Church Music. His teachers included Kees van Houten, Bernard Winsemius and Jan Welmers for Organ; Arie Eikelboom, Anton Vernooij and Jan Jansen for Church Music. He then went on to study Musicology at the Rijksuniversitei, also in Utrecht. During the summer of 1991 he attended master-classes in organ in Toulouse with, among others, Xavier Darasse, Jan-Willem Jansen and Harald Vogel.
From 1991 to 2019 Richard Vos was Cantor-organist at the Pauluskerk in Baarn. From the age of 15 he has been working as an organist in Huizen, currently as organist of the Nieuwe Kerk. From 1990 to 2008 he directed the Vocaal Ensemble Cantare. This ensemble was regularly heard in the NCRV radio program Woord op Zondag. He can also regularly be heard as an organist in the same programme. In 2011, he founded the Kamerkoor Vocaliber, a vocal ensemble with trained singers.
Richard Vos has a private teaching practice in Huizen and the surrounding area and can be heard regularly as a concert organist.
Richard Vos is also active as a composer of church music. In 2010 he composed a double choir Matteüs Passie which was performed for the first time in the spring of 2011 at the Pauluskerk in Baarn by the Cantorij uit Baarn and Kamerkoor Vocaliber from Huizen. In 2013, Richard once again composed a Nederlandse passie. This Johannes passie has been received by an enthusiastic audience in both Baarn and Huizen. In the autumn of 2012, a CD was recorded with vocal and instrumental compositions by Richard's hand.
As a singer Richard Vos is active in the Domcantorij in Utrecht. In 2007 he started taking cello lessons. |
