Review MATTHÄUS PASSION 22-3-2026 in RHEINISCHE POST

“Eine Entdeckung war der Niederländer Vincent Kusters. Seinen leuchtenden, bruchlos geführten Bass-Bariton lieh er einem jugendlich wirkenden Jesus, bei dem das Publikum jede Gemütsregung faszinierend mitempfinden konnte.” — Heide Oehmen

“A discovery was the Dutch baritone Vincent Kusters. He lent his radiant, seamlessly produced bass-baritone to a youthfully portrayed Jesus, allowing the audience to vividly share in every emotional nuance.” — Heide Oehmen

Review of WINTERREISE in DAGBLAD DE LIMBURGER:

“Kusters is een liedzanger pur sang […] met warme kleuring en stralende hoogte. Prachtig zoomt hij geregeld in op details.”

“Julius Drake stuwt krachtig waar nodig en plaatst welgemikte accenten.”

★★★★ — Maurice Wiche

“Kusters is a Lied singer pur sang […] with a warm tone and radiant top register. He beautifully zooms in on details.”

“Julius Drake drives the music forward where needed and places his accents with precision.”

★★★★ — Maurice Wiche

Vincent Kusters is the artistic director of a a new international song festival in the heart of Maastricht, devoted to the art song in its purest form.
Four days filled with top-level concerts and a public masterclass featuring world-renowned musicians and emerging talent.

Impulse Art Management is delighted to announce that it has taken on the representation of Dutch baritone Vincent Kusters.

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(Translated to English)
By Maurice Wiche

Vincent Kusters is a singer, pianist, organist and choir conductor and gives singing lessons to a number of monks in the Benedictine abbey in Mamelis. But his heart is in singing the song. On Friday he will perform pieces by living Limburg composers in the Dominicanen bookstore in Maastricht. “I never wanted to put myself in a box.”

Vincent Kusters and his duo partner Suzuha Hirayama (piano) participated during an intensive four day-long Masterclass, the so-called 2022 Piano Academy of the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland. The masters were Sir András Schiff and Kammersänger Robert Holl. It was an inspiring, interesting and highly educative course high up in the beautiful Alpes. An unforgettable experience!

Vincent Kusters and his duo-partner Charlie Bo Meijering competed during the first edition of the Internationalen Lied-Wettbewerbes Bolko von Hochberg 2022 "Hellas", in the beautiful city of Görlitz, from 12-16 Juni 2022. After reaching the finals they won the special prize for ‘die beste Interpretation eines Schubert-Liedes’. They won the prize because they impressed especially with a ‘refined and deep interpretation of the Schubert-Lieder’.

Photo: Matthias Wehnert

On Friday 22 October, Vincent Kusters and Charlie Bo Meijering won the Young Artist Platform organised by Internationaal Liedfestival Zeist. Six young, professional lied-duos, preselected by a jury, presented themselves to the the audience and a jury consisting of: Micha van Weers, Yoram Ish-Hurwitz, Elly Ameling, Robert Holl and Annett Andriessen. The prize consists of a recital during the Oxford Lieder Festival in October 2022 and the sixth International Lied Festival Zeist in May 2022.

The 20th masterclass for lied “Liedkunst im Schloss vor Husum” was held from the 26th until the 31st of July 2021. The lessons were given by renowned musicians and lied interpreters, baritone Ulf Bästlein and pianist Charles Spencer. Vincent Kusters and his duo partner Charlie Bo Meijering attended this year’s edition, and were awarded with the first prize for best lied duo.

Het Internationaler Schumann Wettbewerb 2020 werd vanwege de coronapandemie verplaatst naar 2021. Wegens de toen nog geldende maatregelen heeft het concours volledig online plaatsgevonden. Vincent Kusters heeft met zijn duo-partner pianist Charlie Bo Meijering deelgenomen en met als prachtig resultaat dat hij prijswinnaar is van het concours.