Monique Krüs
composer
Scene from Pirate Queen (2024)
Monique Krüs
composer
Scene from Pirate Queen (2024)
FINISHED RECENTLY
• Family opera Pirate Queen, on tour through the
Netherlands October-November 2024
• Song cycle Je vis, je meurs for sopr. Bauwien van der Meer
• Magnificat for the city of Utrecht/ Bachcantatediensten
COMPOSER
COMPOSITIONS
Monique Krüs is co-founder of Opera Spanga (NL) and has been artistic director of the Oudegracht Opera Concert in Utrecht for 10 years. She takes part in boards of examiners at the Amsterdam/Tilburg Conservatoires on a regular basis.
She has been a member of the BUMASTEMRA Supervisory board, of the jury of the Alba Rosa Vietor Composition Competition and was vice president of Nieuw Geneco, the Dutch professional association of composers.
The colourfoul compositions of Dutch versatile musician Monique Krüs encompass opera, music theatre, lieder, chambermusic, works for choir, music for media.
A large part of her work contains educational elements
TRAINING
Monique Krüs studied psychology at the University of Utrecht, combining a preparatory year of classical guitar studies at the Conservatoire of Utrecht. At the same time she had her own jazztrio and wrote and produced the title song of the first movie of Oscar-winner Mike van Diem.
During her psychology study she auditioned for solo voice at the Utrecht Conservatoire, where she discovered her affection for opera and new music.
She finished her vocal studies with one year opera class at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
Read more about her singing here
As a composer she is completely self-taught.
ORGANISER, BOARDMEMBER
CONDUCTOR
From conductors Kenneth Montgomery and Jan Stulen she received conducting lessons. Summer 2013 she conducted her own music for the first time in the chamber opera The Tsar, his wife, her lover and his head. Then she conducted her Apenootje with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Corto Maltese in Teatru Manoel, Valletta/Malta, Anne & Zef at the International Opera Festival in Wiesbaden in2019.
She conducted Anne & Zef in Den Haag (NL) in April 2022 with the Residentie Orkest in the brandnew Amare Concert Hall.
Krüs conducting The Tsar in the garden
of the H'ART Museum Amsterdam
Monique writes and produces music for a wide variety of projects, where her vast experience as a singer proves to be very valuable. At first mainly for television, but since 2007, when her first opera God's Videotheque saw its premiere, her compositional focus has shifted more towards live-music of which opera and vocal music form the biggest part. Have a look at the Compositions page
Scene from Gods Videotheque
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