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Marjan N W C Booy e.v. de Croon
Born in Rotterdam February 9, 1956
Marjan Nicolette Wilhelmina Carolina Booy
Dutch nationality
Since August 24, 1988 married to Henk de Croon
Since 20 October 1990 for
the pope and church really connected with Henk de Croon
since February 6,
1989 mother of Susanna Elisabeth de Croon
since December 12, 1991 mother
of Jonathan Johan de Croon
Since 2010, besides living in Netherlands also living in Finland
address in the Netherlands
St.
Josephstraat 4
5017GH Tilburg
Netherlands
(+31) (0)13 5367589
(+31)
(0) 6 44357106
address in Finland
Karhuntie313
51600 Haukivuori / Mikkeli
FinlandFinland
(+358) (0) 4
65886787
marjan.booy@vocalvibration.com
Education
1968-1973 |
High School Atheneum HAVO Chr. Maarten Luther School in Rotterdam/ HAVO Chr.
Maarten Luther School in Rotterdam |
1972 | followed by the MAVO diploma |
1973-1975 |
Training for the Mentally Handicapped in nursing care at the Dr. Mr. Willem van den Bergh Stichting Noordwijk-Binnen |
1975 |
followed by the Z-A degree, in |
1975-1976 |
Preliminary dance expression at the Theater School in Amsterdam |
1976-1980 |
Education as a kindergarten
teacher DE Voorpostn Rotterdamin Rotterdam |
1976-1980 |
teaches painting and drawing to young children under the indirect supervision of Marja de Jong |
1979-1980 |
training at the Institute for Aesthetic Education in Rotterdam Zuid |
1980-1982 |
Application for Course Fully qualified teacher in Primary Education at De Voorpost Rotterdam Rotterdam |
1982 |
diploma fully qualified teacher in primary education |
1979-1980 |
MuziekheilkundeHealing Music Education Science) en(Healing Music Education Science) en Bewegingsleerand Kinesiology) by(and Kinesiology) by mrs.aulaPaula Kassel-Kroon in Vlaardingen-Kroon in Vlaardingen |
work experience
1973-1975 |
working in nursing at the Dr. Mr. Willem van den Bergh Stichting Noordwijk-Binnen |
1975/1976 |
family and farm assistance to famanvan Roon, Ottoland Alblasserwaard Zuid Holland |
1976-1980 |
Painting classes for children aged 2 to 10 years
under the supervision of Marja de Jong, |
1979/1980 |
Outdoor
Vendor for Bakery Dokman Dordrecht |
1980-1989 |
Worked in the Protestant Christian Kindergarten
in Breda |
1990- |
I worked as a teacher / singer / voice teacher for groups and in
individual lessons at home and on location. |
1995/2011 |
Active member in prof/semi professional choirs |
vocal education
1985/1987 | Preliminary training Solo Singing and Vocal music Teacher at the Brabant Conservatorium in Tilburg |
1987-1994 | Vocational training Solo Singing and Vocal music Teacher at the Brabant Conservatorium in Tilburg |
1994 | graduation + diploma, at the Brabant Conservatorium in Tilburg |
At the conservatory, I followed during
the preliminary training for the solo singing lessons with Marianne Klep, Choir
class with Martien van Woerkom.
At the conservatory I attended Solo Vocal
techniques with Hans Smout during the vocational training classes.
Solo Vocal
interpretation with Bernard Kruyssen and Meta Bourgonjen
Choir class with
Kees Rotteveel and Hoite Pruiksma
workshops
and masterclasses
Danny Becher overtone
singing - Tibetan Singing Bowls - Indian Bells - Gongs
Rebecca Stewart Dowland and Purcell
Rebecca Stewart Professional Stage Behavior
Mark Deller English Renaissance polyphonic
vocal music
Paul Hillier English Renaissance
polyphonic vocal music
Bernard Kruyssen
The French song in the Romance
Bernard Kruyssen
Group des Six
Mrs. van Dooremalen Drama
Presentation
Willem Artsz Interaction Drama
classes and workshops in experimental use
of voice and music
Jody Gilbert
Meredith Monk
Borg Diem Groeneveld
improvisation
Frans van Hoek
lessons Dhrupad singing and tanpura
Marianne Svasek teacher at the academy for
world-music and -dance: Codarts in Rotterdam
modal Technique days in the synagoge in Tilburg
Rebecca Stewart Modality, Modal Technique
/ Gregorian Chanting
Maria Wieggers Movement
and posture method Dixhoorn,
Maria Wieggers
Singing Lessons Modal music - Gregorian Chanting
Iris Pattijn Overtone Techniques
singing from graphical notation
During
Festival Traces of Voices: Neue Vocal Solisten,
Vocal Lab Amsterdam
On the occasion of
a workshop for potential choral conductors from Stichting Le Pavillon, from
work of Daan Manneke,
Ton de Leeuw
diplomas
1994
Diploma in Solo Vocal Music Teacher at the Brabant Conservatorium in Tilburg
1982
Fully qualified teacher Elementary Diploma
1980
B Kindergarten Education Act
1979
A Kindergarten Education Act
1975
Z-A diploma
1972 MAVO diploma
From 1990 I worked as a teacher / singer / voice teacher for groups and in individual
lessons at home and on location.
I also worked in workshops.
1995/2011
Active member in prof/semi professional choirs
Opera in Ahoy
Brabant
Choir
Coach Louis Buskens
Piano
BenBen Martin Weyand
Opera in Ahoy
Peter Kroone production
Bernard Broca direction
Roberto Paternostro orchestral and choral conductor
Bizet's opera Carmen
Verdi's opera Aida
5 years opera in Ahoy compilation
Brabant Koor
Der Fliegende Holländer,
Wagner,
Opera in the context of the Zeeland late summer festival, performed
on site in Terneuzen
o.l.v. Ed Spanjaard
Brabant Koor
For Stichting Stabat
Mater in St.Pieterkerk in Oirschot, Noord-Brabant
2000 Stabat Mater Haydn,
Poulenc conducted by Marc Soustrot
2002 Stabat Mater by Dvorak conducted
by Jan Willem de Vriendt
2006 Stabat Mater Schubert, Rheinberger, Cornelius
conducted by Fabrice Bollon
2009 Stabat Mater Nysted, Howels conducted by
David Atherton
Brabant Koor concert
performances
conducted by Alan Buribayev: Ludwig von Beethoven -9th
symphony
Arnold Schoenberg -Friede auf Erde
conducted by Louis Buskens:
Johannes Brahms -Ein Deutsches Requiem (with 2 pianos)
Gabriel Faure -Requiem
conducted by (Sir) Richard Hickox: Claude Debussy -Trois Nocturnes
Holst
-The Planets
conducted by Vladimir Jurowsky: Gustav Mahler -Das Klagende
Lied
conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw: Igor Stravinsky -Symphony of Psalms
Merlijn Twaalfhoven -Verdwenen
conducted by Roger Niesen: de Boer -Cantica
Aviditatis
de Haan -The Book of Urizen
conducted by Christoph Poppen:
Ludwig von Beethoven -Elegischer Gesang
Johannes Brahms -Altrapsodie
Felix
Mendelssohn -Hymne
Guiseppe Verdi -Quattro Pezzi Sacri
conducted by Christopher
Seaman:Ralph Vaughan Williams -Hodie
conducted by Etienne Siebens: Petrassi
-Noche Oscura
conducted by Ed Spanjaard: Holst -The Planets
Gabriel Faure
-Requiem
Alfred Schnittke -Faust Cantata
conducted by Jacques van Steen:Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart -Davide Penitente
conducted by Klaas Stok: Johannes Brahms
-Ein Deutsches Requiem (with organ)
conducted by Marc Soustrot: Johannes
Brahms -Ein Deutsches Requiem (with orchestra)
Claude Debussy -Trois Nocturnes
Duruflé -Requiem
-Quatre Motets sur les Parisiens Thèmes Gregor
conducted
by Arjan Tien: Carl Orff -Carmina Burana
conducted by Jos van Veldhoven:Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart -Mis KV 427
conducted by Jan Willem de Vriendt: Joseph Haydn
-Schöpfung
Georg Friedrich Handel/Mozart -Messiah
conducted by Jaap van
Sweden: Dvorak -Mass in D
Gustav Mahler -2nd Symphony
Guiseppe Verdi -Requiem
With Merlijn Twaalfhoven, composer and pupil of teacher-of-composition Daan
Manneke,
I participated in several of his projects.
Merlijn, among other
things, exercised his projects as a result of his artist-in-residence period
in the Tilburg orchestra.
But also in small concerts at the start of special
events.
He utilized the voices and songs of people from the Middle East,
Morocco and Central Europe.
Drinking-songs, folk-songs from different times
and cultures, famous arias, medieval vocal play
sung clusters....all kinds
of a wide range of vocal traditions were used, also experiments with all types
of sound and extension to all the senses of both participants and listeners.
For secondary school children I worked with Merlijn in 'La Vie sur Terre
".
To this I worked as a professional singer and as a primary teacher.
Merlijn gave you a fee if he had the means and money to do so.
Alternately,
the work was voluntary or paid.
From late 90's to 2010
I was a reader
attached to Dedicon Studio, formerly the studio for audiobook Le Sage ten Broek,
books for people who read differently ("anders lezenden").
The repertoire
includes Literary thrillers, novels, children's books, informative children's
books, cookbooks and short stories.
Particularly was 'Sermon to the crocodiles'(Preek
tot de Krokodillen) of the Portuguese psychiatrist / novelist: António Lobo
Antúnes. A book designed as a novel,
where 4 very different women do their
reporting on the horrors around the Carnation Revolution. The book is even more
intrusive because no punctuation was used.
Also notable was "Encyclopedia
of the snow 'by Sarah Emily Miano, a novel designed as an encyclopedic work
(with many footnotes and notes) about which concepts are explained by pages,
full of long poetic prose, but also through songs, quotes and advertising.
It was voluntary;
the application for the job was tough as the entrance exam
for the academy:
As a reader one must have:
- A pleasant timbre
- A clear and intelligible sound
- Entertaining voice melody
- Good breath control
- Sense of timing
but also the power to read out loud without annoying noises such as swallowing,
smacking lips, heavy sighs or breathing......etc.
2009 I became a volunteer
at Bloesem .
Bloesem is an open house for foreign women in Tilburg
Noord.
Naïma Boukou has therefore taken the initiative:
the level of violence
in the district did her desire for a different way of dealing with each other:
exploit and share the large cultural differences as a source of wealth instead
sharing irritation.
Classes are in Bloesem , there are mornings info on healthy
living,
there is cooking, eating together, partying and drinking coffee.
For many women, Bloesem proved important, a place of orientation, comfort
and coziness.
My job was singing with the women and often with the children
accompanying them.
I taught the women Dutch songs (so they could sing along
with their children)
I tried to make them sing their own songs. It is their
cultural heritage. which
in times of problems and worries is so easily neglected.
It turned out that (bad/naughty) love songs and lullabies were favorite;
if they loosened, it was with much laughter and sharing memories;
you saw
the women become stronger, the genius in an environment that theirs (yet) was
not.
The singing opens, sometimes only after weeks or months, emotions:
accumulated grief, loneliness and fear.
The women have suppressed their emotions:
to not be vulnerable.
These oppressed emotions are probably the cause of
many ailments that these women suffer.
Since 2010 Marya, Naima and I are
also directors of Bloesem -StichtingLef.
Bloesem works almost without
subsidy and the women themselves generate an income to help it survive.
Jamilla:
"Bloesem is my life, my medicine."
In Finland I got the chance
to be active in music:
Saksala Art Radius gave me the opportunity to participate
in workshops in Educational Symposia:
Subjects were:
- Music and emotion
- Musical interludes as an aid in primary education
- The great diversity in vocal expression
The many forms in which the exclamation "Hallelujah" is forceful
Together
with Henk de Croon, there were concerts Juva, Haukivuori and Mikkeli
In 2011 I coached the choir of Haukivuori
also weekly people came to my home
to practise Finnish folk songs together.
hobbies and interests
All ethnic
groups;
the way people live their lives:
their history, religion and
religious expression,
their language sounds and language habits, their music
,
the way they dress and live,
the way they eat and how they prepare the
food,
how they feel and handle the environment .....
I like to read and
write.
Language has my interest.
I like to cook and eat.
Everything
related to food has my interest;
Also the cultivation thereof,
So I like
gardening.
I love to make things from natural materials.
Geer Pouls, flower
artist/performer,now living in Berlin, taught me how to experiment with plants,flowers
and natural materials.
languages
I control the English reasonably well.
I can express myself orally and in
writing
and I can communicate well in that language.
I control the German
reasonably well, but less than English.
I understand the Latin languages
superficially,
I do a bit in French make myself intelligible.
On my, still
very modest skills in Finnish, I work.
I desire to know me being able to
express myself in that language ;
more: to be able to communicate .
From
my mother tongue, Dutch, I think,
I released an excellent management.
perception and motivation
'in
the pursuit of knowledge:
everyday something is added.
in the pursuit of enlightenment:
everyday something is dropped.'
Lao-tze
I believe in the voice
as given to us by nature.
Unless there is a serious deficiency ,
it is,
I believe, possible for anyone to sing.