Biografie
Jasperina Verheij (1999), is a versatile recorder player and mezzo soprano. Having diverse interests in music, science, dance and other artforms, she finds inspiration everywhere. She enjoys working with other disciplines such as theater directors, scientists, composers and dancers.
​She has performed at numerous music festivals such as the Early Music Festival in Utrecht (fringe), the Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Opera Forward Festival, November Music and in many other concert series throughout the Netherlands and abroad. She also performed as a soloist with several orchestras among which Orkest de Ereprijs and het Residentie Orkest. Together with pianist Willem van den Dool she forms a liedduo, with which they regularly perform known and unknown songs in recitals. Together they won an honourable mention at the Grachtenfestival Conservatorium Concours, praised for their exceptional duo-qualities and poetic engagement. They were one of the selected promising liedduo's at the International Liedfestival Zeist, where they received masterclasses from, among others, Elly Ameling, Robert Holl, Malcolm Martineau and Wolfram Rieger. In 2023-2024 they participated as a duo in the Udo Reinemann International Masterclasses, where they were coached by, among others, Christianne Stotijn, Sir Thomas Allen and Hartmut Höll.
At the opera stage she performed (scènes of) le Nozze di Figaro in the role of Cherubino (under the direction of Floris Visser) and Die Zauberflöte (3rd knabe) with the Dutch National Opera Academy. In January 2024 she portrayed the role of Medea in Händel's opera Teseo, directed by Michael Chance. In october 2024 she will be one of the 4 soloists in Louis Andriessen's 'De Staat, performing with the Rotterdams Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by John Adams.
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She graduated in classical singing with distinction for 'artistry and versatility' at the Royal Conservatoire in the Hague and continues to study for her master degree with Noa Frenkel at the Royal Conservatoire in the Hague, for which she was awarded the scholarship for excellence. She received her bachelor in recorder playing at this school as well, having studied with Daniël Brüggen. Besides, she specialized in early music singing with Peter Kooij, Francesca Aspromonte and Pascal Bertin. She furthermore completed a bachelor in Life Science & Technology at the universities of Leiden and Delft. Jasperina plays on instruments built by Joanne Saunders and Li Virghi, made possible with the generous support of Stichting Eigen Muziekinstrument.