Dutch baritone Maarten Koningsberger has appeared in operas ranging from from Monteverdi to Menotti. His versatility is also reflected in his song recitals, accompanied by Graham Johnson, Kelvin Grout and Rudolf Jansen or with lutenist Fred Jacobs. He appears regularly at Europe's major recital venues including the Concertgebouw and Wigmore Hall. He has been invited to appear at festivals all over the world. His concert tours include Europe, South Africa, the Far East, Israel and Canada, always highly acclaimed by the press.

Maarten Koningsberger has sung with orchestras such as the Concertgebouw, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightment, Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Les Arts Florissants, Tafelmusic and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra: under conductors such as Ton Koopman, William Christie, Richard Egarr, Gustav Leonhardt, René Jacobs, Marin Alsop, Arnold Östman, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Jaap van Zweden and Jeffrey Tate.

He has recorded over 20 CDs including Music of the Spheres (lute and consort songs of the 17th century), Baroque Cantatas (by Campras, Charpentier, Van Blankenburg) and Lieder (including the Hyperion Schubert Edition, Winterreise, Die schöne Müllerin) and French Mélodies (including Fauré, Milhaud) as well as opera and oratorio (including Les Grands Motets de Mondonville with Les Arts Florissants).

In the Autumn of 2008 a CD with Brahms Lieder will be released and in 2008 another - Solo Songs of Henry Purcell - to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the composer's birth in 2009. In 2008 a CD of Heine songs will be released with Marietta Petkova on piano, in a translation by Seth Gaaikema.

Maarten Koningsberger also teaches at the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles and is regularly invited to give masterclasses and illustrated lectures all over the world.

In 2009 Maarten will make his American recital debut at Carnegie Hall in New York and is also planning a tour of university and conservatoire centres of excellence in the States with his acclaimed and higly entertaining masterclasses and workshops about lieder.

'The whole performance was poetry and music supremely realised. This man sings with his eyes, he sings with his face. He is just a total artist. I wish I could tell you about every song in turn. I know I can't. I was just grateful to have been there. ... Now I have to say it, I was arrested by the very first notes this man sang - here was an instrument of quality, an even, carefully honed timbre, a satin like sheen giving it warmth and glow, and ample power and vibrancy displayed as the recital proceeded.' Maxwell Betts, BBC

Artistry and Musicianship to the Fore: ... The set of Schwanegesang was as fresh as the day they were found next to his deathbed, when given such interpretive artistry and musicianship of the highest order as was displayed by the Dutch baritone Maarten Koningsberger ...
beautiful placed singing, phrasing and colour ... Eastern Daily Press

Koningsberger sings a grandiose recital: Of the bombardment of images and sounds fired at one in a lifetime, some remain quite clearly imprinted on the memory. One such indelible image is that of the baritone Maarten Koningsberger. ... he has often sung in the Concertgebouw, though this was his first appearance in the celebrated Vocal Series, promoting him to a master amongst singers. ... The voice has ripened, becoming fuller and lower, and his interpretation has gained remarkable dimensions. ... Koningsberger is primarily a storyteller. Comprehensibility is his greatest asset. Not a single syllable is lost in careless diction. ...The call of the boatman in Schubert's Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren was conveyed with a broad and warmly undulating voice. In Fischerweise tranquility was replaced by playful treatment of both text and music, in a great way as Schubert ingeniously shifts the bar in the last verse. ... After songs by Brahms and Duparc, sung with the utmost concentration, Roger Quilter’s settings of Shakespeare brought quite a different quality of Koningsberger’s voice to the fore: seductiveness and tangible yearning. In other words: a majestic recital. Trouw

... The best singer was the baritone Maarten Koningsberger, performing solos and many small roles with conviction. His glowing voice has a great expressive range and enormous interpretative depth. Indeed, his Mache dich mein Herze rein was a highlight! ...And then we have the incomparably beautiful voice of he baritone Maarten Koningsberger, who seems to feel and touch each word from all angles before releasing it. In terms of timbre and depth every phrase receives the greatest attention. ... With songs by Brahms, Schubert and Purcell Maarten Koningsberger demonstrated why he is considered one of he most versatile of Dutch baritones. ... Schubert’s intimate lyricism presents no less a challenge to Koningsberger than the melancholic romanticism of Brahms’ songs to texts by sombre northerners such as Theodor Storm and Karl von Lemeke.

With his transparent and supple voice Koningsberger achieves a fine simplicity in German repertoire such as Schuberts’ calmly ambulant. Der Wanderer an den Mond Koningsberger Triumphs in Vocal Series Concertgebouw Amsterdam: Konigsbergers voice has clearly gained in recent years in depth and sonority. His lower register impresses with its full, rediant brass-colours, his higher regions have the abillity to whisper like a breeze. (...) Whether in Schubert, Duparc or Quilter, Koningsberger feels at home.

Through his art of picturesque storytelling he magically manages to work even a simple song in verse, like Schubert’s Der Wanderer an den Mond , into an abundantly coloured masterpeace. ... Every word has a meaning, every musical phrase is placed in its own precise context. The encores were received with standing ovations that other stars would envy. DeTelegraaf