In 1972, he became the first private student of Max van Egmond in Amsterdam, as at that time there were no courses of study for early music majoring in singing.
As a lieder singer, he has recorded the Winterreise by Franz Schubert with Ludger Rémy on the fortepiano.
His clear voice is appreciated "without vocal equalization and without vibrato, i.e. always razor sharp on the tone",[3] and his lively declamation, which is strongly influenced by the musical rhetoric of the Baroque.
In 2003, he moved from his hometown Utrecht to the South of France, where he had the dilapidated St.-Guiraud Castle restored in Castelnau-Barbarens near Auch.
[6] In the Auch Cathedral he gave several concerts with the titular organist Anton Stiller on the local baroque organ from 1694 and the vocal ensemble Capella Auscitensis.