Bobbie Blommesteijn

The Dutch soprano Bobbie Blommesteijn began her musical studies at a young age in the choir school of St Bavo in Haarlem. She sang in the affiliated cathedral choir for eight years, and gained her first performance experiences at various concert venues, including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

Today she performs regularly as a soloist both in the Netherlands and abroad. She is also a sought-after ensemble singer and works freelance with vocal ensembles such as Collegium Vocale Gent, Arcangelo and the Balthasar Neumann Choir. She is also a member of the Netherlands Chamber Choir and sings regularly with Cappella Amsterdam.

Since 2019 she has collaborated with the internationally renowned, Grammy-nominated British ensemble Voces8, and has an annual residency as visiting professional in residence at their summer school in Milton Abbey in Dorset.

Alongside her performances as a singer, she arranges and composes for choir and writes her own songs. In order to further explore her passion for music theatre, in 2024 she founded the collective Lemnis, with which she realizes a cappella music theatre productions.

She studied classical singing at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Manon Heijne and at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Sasja Hunnego.

Following her conservatory studies, she completed a master’s degree in theatre studies at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in the history of cabaret and small-scale performance. Since then, in addition to her musical activities she has worked as a freelance researcher and author. She has written for publications including the Dutch magazines Theaterkrant and Volkskrant. Several of her articles were published in the anthology 1001 vrouwen in de 20ste eeuw (1001 Women in the 20th century), edited by Els Kloek.