Margit Beukman graduated in 1999 at the Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands in The Hague, coached by Wout Oosterkamp. She completed her postgraduate studies in 2002 at the operastudio The New Opera Academy Amsterdam. There she performed roles such as Donna Elvira in Mozarts Don Giovanni conducted by Kenneth Montgomery aswell as Nancy in Brittens Albert Herring conducted by Paul McCreesh.
She participated in master classes with Elly Ameling, Graham Clark, William Shimell and Galina Vishnevskaya.
2004 she performed the role of Iphigénie in an operaproduction of Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride, conducted by Tom Löwenthal (Opera aan het IJ, Amsterdam, Holland). 2007 she was Maritorne in Don Chisciotte by Conti with the Utrechts Barok Consort/Opera aan het IJ.
In 2004, 2005 and 2007 Margit was invited to sing a solorecital for the friends of the Opera del Liceu in Barcelona.
Currently Margit lives and works in Stuttgart, in the south of Germany, where she frequently performes opera and liedrecitals with the Russian pianist Elena Chonova and the German pianist Martin Stortz.
With the guitarist Tillmann Reinbeck she forms a regular duo since 2006. In Stuttgart and surroundings she worked these last years with well-known conductors such as Helmuth Rilling (Bachakademie), Jürgen Budday (Cantorei Maulbronn), Gabriel Feltz (Stuttgarter Philharmoniker) and Axel Berger (Stadtkapelle Offenburg).
In the Netherlands she forms a Liedduo with pianist Nynke Eekhof.
For 2009, several concerts with the Trio Toccata are scheduled.
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