Willem Verkaik

Willem Verkaik

Life

Born: 25 November 1943

Biography

Born and raised in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, he studied at Delft University to gain the title of Ingenieur in Mechanical Engineering. He started singing, and improved his singing techniques through private lessons. As a tenor he sang in such ensembles as Arti Vocali, Pentacost, Capella Carolina, Kapel van de Lage Landen. He attended the Kurt Thomas course in The Hague and became a choral conductor, arranger and composer.

See also: Willem Verkaik's editor page.

List of choral works

• For works at CPDL sorted alphabetically by title, see Willem Verkaik compositions

• Absalom, mijn zoon
• Het Lied van de Boog
• Het Lied van de Put

• Hooglied van Salomo (Song of Songs)
  1. Overstelp mij
  2. Wel ben ik donker
  3. De tuin der liefde
• Ik ben een krokus
• Lamentations of Jeremiah
  1. Klaagliederen lectio prima
  2. Klaagliederen lectio secunda
  3. Klaagliederen lectio tertia
• Non clamor, sed amor
• Tirsi morir volea
• Vox in Rama

Traditional arrangements

Christmas

• It was poor little Jesus
• Klein Jezuken
• O kom, Immanuel
• Sweet little Jesus boy

Irish-Scottish

• Coulter's Candy
• Down by the Salley Gardens
• Gabhaim Molta Bhríde
• I'll tell me Ma
• Mingulay
• Silent, O! Moyle
• Siubhail a Gradh
• The deil's awa' wi' th' exciseman
• The Singing Bird
• Will ye go, lassie, go

Yiddish

• Ahz der Rebbe Elimelech
• Mayn Yingele
• Ot azoi neit a shnaider
• Rozhinkes mit mandlen
• Schlof mayn Kind

My grandmother's songs

• Aan den Nacht
• De Leliën
• Herinneringen
• Het Angelus
• Moederke alleen
• Wees gegroet!Volschoone lentetijd

Slave songs

• No more
• O freedom

Spirituals

• Swing low sweet chariot

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