PATRICK VAN GOETHEM (countertenor), educated in the baroque field by Paul Esswood, Julia Hamari and Andreas Scholl, is a frequently requested concert singer, working with distinguished conductors in the early music field and appearing in important early music festivals. With the Netherlands Bach Society he sang Bach's Magnificat conducted by Gustav Leonhardt in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. With Reinhard Goebel (Musica Antiqua Köln) he sang in a Bach cantata project during the Festival Musica Antiqua Bruges and in Telemann's Der Messias in the Festival De La Chaise-Dieu (France). As part of the Bach Year 2000, he sang Bach's St. Matthew Passion in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig with the Leipziger Barockorchester. Also, with Helmuth Rilling's Bach Collegium Stuttgart he performed during the Bachfest Stuttgart, and with Edward Higginbottom (New College Choir) he sang Messiah in Poznan (Poland). In a co-production of Collegium Vocale Gent and the Combattimento Consort he sang in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. In 2004 he recorded Bach's Himmelfahrts- and Oster-Oratorium on the BIS-label with the Bach Collegium Japan conducted by Masaaki Suzuki with concerts in Tokyo and Kobe. Future engagements include concerts in the prestigeous Bachwoche Ansbach as part of the Bach Year 2005. In 2006 Patrick Van Goethem will record the Buxtehude cantatas in a project with Ton Koopman and The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra followed by a large European concert tour in 2007.