- EDUCATION
- 1980-1992 privat lessons with Paul Hameleers
- 1983-1987 Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam with Cora Canne-Meyer
- Masterclasses with Paul Esswood, Max van Egmond and John Shirley Quirck
AWARDS
- Premio de honor Cuba Disco – received in Havana Cuba for his cd oeuvre
- Knight in the order of the Dutch lion
CONDUCTER (a.o.)
Alan Curtis, Sir David Willcocks, Masaaki Suzuki, Yoshio Watanabe, Arnold Östman, Edo de Waart, Sigiswald Kuijken, Gustav Leonhardt, Jurjen Hempel, Peter Neumann, Gustav Leonhardt, Frans Brüggen, Angel Recassens
FESTIVALS (a.o.)
- Händel Festspiele – Halle – Germany
- Festival Oude Muziek – Utrecht – Netherlands
- International Music Festival – Lucerne – Suisse
- Settimane musicale Senese – Sienna – Italia
- Classic Open Air Festival – Solothurn – Suisse
- Festival Oude Muziek – Tochigi – Japan
- Festival van Vlaanderen – Antwerpen – Belgium
- Holland Festival – Amsterdam – Netherlands
- Wratislavia Cantans – Wroclaw – Poland
- Festival Musica Viva – Osnabrück – Germany
- Festival Arte Sacro – Madrid – Spain
- Festival Brezice – Ljubljana -Slovenia
- Leo Brouwer Chamber music festival – Havana – Cuba
- Summer Festival Dubrovnik – Dubrovnik – Croatia
OPERA ROLES PERFORMED
- Giulio Cesare – Giulio Cesare – Händel
- Flavio – Flavio – Händel
- Tullio – Arminio – Händel
- Orlando – Orlando Furioso – Händel
- Ottone – Agrippina – Händel
- Orpheus – Orpheus ed Eurydice – Gluck
- Daniela – Daniela (WP) – Escande
- Sorceress – Dido and Aneas – Purcell
- Cupido – Venus and Adonis – Blow
- Ascanio – Ascanio in Alba – Mozart
- Apollo – Apollo et Hyacinthus – Mozart
- Oberon – Midsummernight’s Dream – Britten
- Angelus Novus – Winterreise (WP) – Grunauer
- Living Composer – Gershwin in Blue (WP) – Meyering
- Chanteclear – Reinaert de Vos (WP) – Bos
- La Dama Spagnola – La Dama Spagnola ed il – A. Scarlatti
- Cavalier Romano
- First Musician – Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme – Lully
- Solo Ensemble – Die Glückliche Hand – Schoenberg
- Historicus – Jephthe, Belshazzer – Carissimi
THEATER PRODUCTIONS
- De Virtuoos – Combination of acting, cabaret and singing with the Actress Ina van Faassen.
- Barok – Production together with Introdans (ballet)
Sytse Buwalda – countertenor / conductor
BOOKS
- Mijn naam is Boom – Verses about trees and their very human characteristics.
Illustrations Miriam Fleuren, Preface by Gerrit Komrij - Meesters Rust – An homage to Sytse’s father; Meester Buwalda Collection of his most beautiful poems
RECORDINGS SOLO
- I wonder as I wander A collection of live recordings, celebrating 25 years as a Muscican
- Canciones Amatorias – Songs by Brouwer, Kioulaphides & Manuel de Falla
- Asteria ensemble: Sytse Buwalda, Saskia Spinder – gitaar; Ferdinand Binnendijk – mandoline
- Songs of Life & Death – English songs & Duets from the 17th century. Composers: Dowland, Purcell, Lawes, Wilson, Johnnson and others. Sopran: Francine van der Heyden.
- Accompanied by David van Ooijen, lute & Freek Borstlap, viola da gamba.
- Lust in 4 gangen – Songs about Lust… Lust in food, drink and love…
- Accompanied by a.o. David van Ooijen, Lute/guitar and Vaughan Schlepp, Piano
- About Love – love songs through the ages with David van Ooijen, theorbe, lute, gitar & Vauhgan Schlepp, fortpiano / Erard Grand 1846
- Sacred Arias – Religious arias through the ages with David van Ooijen, lute/guitar & Vaughan Schlepp, Fortepiano
- Sytse Buwalda sings – Aria’s by Händel, Bach
And the Stabat Mater by A. Vivaldi with Florilegium Musicum - Heroic Arias – Händel opera arias accompanied by Florilegium Musicum
- Airs & Duets Bach – with Ruth Holton, soprano
- Marcel Beekman, Knut Schoch, tenor, Neth. Bach Collegium
- Bach & Buwalda – BACH & BUWALDA, Famous aria’s from the Bach Kantates and the B-Minor Mass, Florilegium Musicum
- G.F. Händel – MESSIAH, Bach Choir & Orchestra of the Netherlands,
P.J. Leusink - ARMINIO, il complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
- THEODORA, Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann
- SUSANNA, Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann
- UTRECHT TE DEUM, UTRECHT JUBILATE, Currende Consort, Erik van Nevel
- MESSIAH, Holland Boys Choir & Florilegium Musicum, P.J. Leusink
- J.S. Bach – MATTEUS PASSIE CD/DVD LIVE RECORDING
World premiere recording for television of a new Dutch translation of the Matthew Passion - MATTHEW PASSION (CD/DVD), Holland Boys Choir, Netherlands Bach Collegium, P.J. Leusink
- BACH KANTATES, Holland Boys Choir, Netherlands Bach Collegium, P.J. Leusink
- ST, JOHN PASSION, Holland Boys Choir, Netherlands Bach Collegium, P.J. Leusink
- ST. MATTHEW PASSION (2), Florilegium Musicum, Netherlands Bach Collegium, P.J. Leusink
- TILG’ O HÖCHSTER, with Marjon Strijk, soprano, Netherlands Bach Collegium
- MOTETS (Ensemble & Solo), La Petite Bande,
- Sigiswald Kuijken
- Vivaldi – INTRODUCTION, R 639 & GLORIA D-DUR, RV 588
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- GLORIA D-DUR, RV 589
- STABAT MATER, RV 621
- NISI DOMINUS, RV 608
- AMOR HAI VINTO, RV 683
- MAGNIFICAT, RV 610
- CARE SELVE AMICI PRATI, RV 671
- PERFIDISSIMO COR!, RV 674
- INTRODUCTION, RV 635 & DIXIT DOMINUS, RV 595, ALLA CACCIA DELL’ALME, RV 670
- All Accompanied by Netherlands Bach Collegium
- W.A. Mozart – REQUIEM & KRONUNGSMESSE – Bach Choir & Orchestra of the Netherlands, P.J. Leusink.
- The best of Mozart, Bach Orchestra of the Netherlands,
Concertaria Ombra felice and others - REQUIEM, Holland Boys Choir, Hungarian Symphonic Orchestra Székesfehérvár, P.J. Leusink
- Orff – CARMINA BURANA (dutch translation W. Wilmink)
- Tuma – STABAT MATER, MISERERE MEI DEUS Currende Consort, Erik van Nevel
- Pergolesi – STABAT MATER, with Roberta Alexander, soprano, Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, Patrick Peire
- STABAT MATER, with Martinus Leusink, Boy soprano, Florilegium Musicum
- P.A. Fiocco – STABAT MATER, with Roberta Alexander, soprano,
Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, Patrick Peire - De Fesch – MISSA PASCHALIS & MISSA IN G (CD/VIDEO),
Holland Boys Choir, Orkest Herman Strategier, P.J. Leusink - Various Composers – PSALMS IN THE 18TH CENTURY,
Henny Heikens, Organ, Wilma van der Wardt, Cello - Blanchard, Caldara – TE DEUM
- de Koninck – VARIOUS SONGS
- Hassler – SECULAR MUSIC (solo & ens.),
- Currende Consort, Erik van Nevel
- Various composers – Call, vocal group, Bach orchestra of the Netherlands, PJ Leusink. Aria: Habanera by Bizet & O sole mio
RECORDINGS ENSEMBLE & SOLO
- Various – ENTRE AVENTURAS Y ENCANTAMIENTOS
- Musica para Don Quichotte
- La Grande Chapelle (Cecile kempenaers, Sytse Buwalda, Hervé Lamy), Angel recassens
- Various – EL VUELO DE ICARO, Musica para el eros Barocco,
- A Grande Chapelle ( Anne Gambier, Kate Ashby, Sytse Buwalda, Hervé Lamis, Pau Bordas), Angel Recassens
- Händel – MESSIAH, Le Musicians du Louvre, M. Minkowski
- Bach – B-MINOR MASS, (ens. & choir solo), Orchestra of the 18th Century, Netherlands Chamberchoir, Frans Brüggen
- Romero – Misa de Requiem “de dos bajos”, La Grande Chapelle, Angel Recassens
- Gabrieli – VESPER PSALMS, Nederlands Kamerkoor, Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel
- Padovano – MASS, Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel
- Various – CHRISTMAS IN EARLY AMERICA, Columbus Consort, Joseph Petit
- Various – IN MORTE DI MADONNA LAURA, AN A CAPELLA CHRISTMAS, Pentacost Ensemble
- Camerata Trajectina
- DE ZEVEN HOOFDZONDEN VAN JEROEN BOSCH
- TRIOMPHERENDE MIN, CAROLUS HACQUART
- CALVIJN AND HIS MUSIC, SWEELINCK
- THEATERMUZIEK UIT DE GOUDEN EEUW
- MAASTRICHT LIEDBOEK 1554
- SOUTERKEN LIEDEKENS
- ZINGENDE ZWANEN
- REDERIJKERS LIEDEREN
- OBRECHT SONGS; LYRICS GERRIT KOMRIj
- CALVIJN, SONGS OF PRAISE
- DOWLAND IN HOLLAND
- MADRIGALEN, CORNELIS SCHUYT
- EEN NIEUW LIEDT WY HEVEN AEN; LUTHER IN THE NETERLANDS
- JACOB CATS; KLAEGENDE MAEGHDEN EN ANDERE LIEDEREN
- Busnois – SALVE REGINA, Kapel van de Lage Landen
- Gesualdo Consort – SWEELINCK