Patrick Van Goethem
| Patrick Van Goethem | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1969 Aalst |
| Occupation | Countertenor |
| Organization | The Flanders Baroque Consort |
Patrick Van Goethem (born 1969) is a Belgian countertenor, known for performing early music.
Patrick Van Goethem was born in Aalst, East Flanders, and began his education in the boys choir Schola Cantorum Cantate Domino under direction of Michaël Ghijs. He studied with Marie-Thérèse Maesen and Zeger Vandersteene, and later with Paul Esswood, Julia Hamari and Andreas Scholl.
Van Goethem has appeared mostly in festivals of early music in Germany, France and the Netherlands. Van Goethem sang Bach's Magnificat with Gustav Leonhardt and the Netherlands Bach Society at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. With Reinhard Goebel and the Musica Antiqua Köln he sang in a Bach cantata project at the Festival Musica Antiqua Bruges. He appeared in Bach's St Matthew Passion in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig as part of the Bach Year 2000. In 2004, he recorded Bach's Ascension Oratorio and Easter Oratorio with the Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki, with concerts in Tokyo and Kobe. In 2005 he sang Bach's Mass in B minor with the Washington Bach Consort and J. Reilly Lewis. In 2009, he recorded the work live in Warsaw with Frans Brüggen, the Cappella Amsterdam, the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Dorothee Mields, Johannette Zomer, Jan Kobow and Peter Kooy.
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