Walter van Dyk
Walter van Dyk (born 20 May 1961) is a British actor, singer, narrator and photographer.
Early life
Actor Walter van Dyk is the son of Dutch composer Rudi Martinus van Dijk and the Montessori educator Jeanne Elisabeth Anna Koning. Born in Toronto, Ontario, [Canada, van Dyk was educated at Hull High School in Hull, Massachusetts in the United States, and later studied acting with Uta Hagen at the Herbert Berghof (HB) Studios in New York and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. He later studied singing at Trinity College of Music in London.
Career
Walter van Dyk will be seen as Major Petkoff in Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man directed by Brigid Larmour in the Watford Palace Theatre's Autumn season in 2016. He completed filming Harley and the Davidsons, a new TV mini-series in the United States in March 2016 and the mini-series will have its premiere on September 5 on the Discovery Channel. He recently co-starred with Felicity Dean in the world premiere of a new play This Thing called Love by Shelley Silas directed by Ben Caplan on 31 August 2015, as part of a repertory season of four new plays in London. He has performed in Olivier Award nominated shows in the West End and worked with some of Britain's finest directors Richard Eyre, Stephen Unwin, Jeremy Sams, Rachel Kavanaugh, and Brigid Larmour. He most recently played the title role of Krapp in Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape in London.
He also performed with Angela Hewitt and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra at the Trasimeno Music Festival in Umbria, Italy on 7 July 2015 in Poulenc's L'Histoire du Babar and Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat. In May 2015 he returned from the United States where he performed O Moon of Alabama: A Kurt Weill Cabaret with Liza Sadovy as a Yellow Barn Music Festival and Dallas Symphony Orchestra co-production in the Soluna International Arts and Music Festival in Dallas, Texas. Later in the year, he returned once again to the Watford Palace Theatre for their Christmas show Dick Whittington directed by Brigid Larmour. The sci-fi thriller feature film The Carrier was released in 2015.
Recent work includes O Moon of Alabama: A Kurt Weill Cabaret at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, the role of Charles Mowbray in the Ronald Harwood play Equally Divided directed by Brigid Larmour at the Watford Palace Theatre, the world premiere of Insufficiency by Carl Djerassi at the Riverside Studios in London, the Marquis de Tarapote and the Old Prisoner in Garsington Opera's production of Offenbach's La Périchole directed by Jeremy Sams, The Importance of Being Earnest with Jane Asher directed by Stephen Unwin at the Rose Theatre in Kingston upon Thames and the Lyric Theatre in the Hong Kong International Arts Festival. Walter played Herr Schwarz in Feydeau's A Flea in her Ear at the Old Vic Theatre alongside Tom Hollander directed by Richard Eyre.
Van Dyk made his first professional American stage debut in March 1980 at the American Repertory Theatre in the ART's inaugural production of A Midsummer Night's Dream playing Snug, the joiner later transferring to the Wilbur Theatre in Boston with Cherry Jones. Since then Van Dyk has worked on both sides of the Atlantic. London West End theatre includes the London Evening Standard Award nominated Enter the Guardsman with Janie Dee directed by Jeremy Sams at the Donmar Warehouse, the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park in A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Michael Pennington, the Duke in Two Gentlemen of Verona directed by Rachel Kavanaugh, and the role of George Ketteridge in the Olivier Award nominated production of Cole Porter's High Society. Van Dyk appeared in the US in 2005 in the Yellow Barn Music Festival production in Amherst, Massachusetts of Peter Maxwell Davies Eight Songs for a Mad King. In the Netherlands, he appeared with his own ensemble, Van Dyk & Company, in a production of songs by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.[1]
Van Dyk's work for television includes the lead role of Pieter in the BBC Screenplay Can't Stop me Dreaming directed by Bernard Rudden (1992), and roles in The Detectives, Birds of a Feather, Framed, The Basil Brush Show, London's Burning and Love Hurts. Van Dyk most recently appeared with Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell in Kevin MacDonald's latest film The Eagle (2011) released in the UK on 18 March 2011. He played the role of Thoolen in the movie Incognito with Irene Jacob and Jason Patric.[2]
Van Dyk has made a specialty as narrator of classical chamber music. In June 2015 he narrated the poetry of Mark Strand in Haydn's Seven Words of Christ on the Cross which he did initially with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and now in the Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival. He played the Devil in June 2014 in Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale with Edward Fox and Matthew Sharp at the North Aldborough Chamber Music Festival, and narrated the entire work for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic's Ensemble 10/10. Last August he performed The Seafarer, translated from the Anglo-Saxon by Charles Harrison-Wallace, in a musical setting by Sally Beamish, at the Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival broadcast on BBC Radio 3. In 2007 he toured the production of Igor Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale as the Narrator with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields at Wilton's Music Hall in London and throughout the UK. He has performed at the Aldeburgh Festival, the Cheltenham International Music Festival, and in the United States for Collage New Music in Boston as well as with the Peabody Trio in Chicago, San Francisco, and Boulder, Colorado. Other festivals include Music for Salem in NY, the Yellow Barn Music Festival in Vermont, and the Portland Chamber Music Festival in Portland, Maine.[3]
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Incognito | Thoolen | Morgan Creek Productions |
| 2000 | Abbot's Approach | Pastor | Long Island Bridie Pictures |
| 2011 | The Eagle (2011 film)" | Septullus | Focus Features/Universal Pictures |
| 2015 | The Carrier | Clarkson | Megatopia Films |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Love Hurts | Young Barman | |
| 1992 | Screenplay on BBC2 | Pieter | Continental Drift |
| 1992 | Framed | Clerk | Episode 1.4 |
| 1997 | The Detectives | Master of Ceremonies | Episode: Best Man |
| 1997 | Birds of a Feather | Gay Biker Man at Funeral | Episode: Nearest and Dearest |
| 1997 | London's Burning | Peter | Episode 10.3 |
| 2005 | The Basil Brush Show | Gordon Ramsbottom | Episode: I'm a celebrity....let me back into the kitchen |
| 2015 | The Professionals | David | |
| 2016 | Harley and the Davidsons | Professor Lyons | Episode 1 ( in pre-production) |
Theatre
| Year | Play | Role | Director | Company |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Arms and the Man | Major Petkoff | Brigid Larmour | Watford Palace Theatre |
| 2015 | Dick Whittington | Alderman Fitzwarren | Brigid Larmour | Watford Palace Theatre |
| 2015 | This Thing called Love | Jack | Ben Caplan | Ever Hope Full Repertory Season |
| 2015 | Krapp's Last Tape | Krapp | Jake Murray | Frontier Productions, London |
| 2015 | O Moon of Alabama: A Kurt Weill Cabaret | Mack, the Knife | Lawrence Evans | Soluna International Arts and Music Festival, Dallas Texas/Yellow Barn Music Festival, Vermont |
| 2014 | Sleeping Beauty | The King | Brigid Larmour | Watford Palace Theatre |
| 2014 | O Moon of Alabama: A Kurt Weill Cabaret | Mack, the Knife | Lawrence Evans | Birmingham Repertory Theatre |
| 2013 | Equally Divided | Charles Mowbray | Brigid Larmour | Watford Palace Theatre |
| 2012 | La Perichole | Marquis de Tarapote and Old Prisoner | Jeremy Sams | Garsington Opera |
| 2012 | Insufficiency | Leo Bramble | Jake Murray and Andy Jordan | Riverside Studios |
| 2012 | The Importance of Being Earnest | Lane and Merriman | Stephen Unwin | Rose Theatre, Kingston and Hong Kong International Arts Festival |
| 2011 | A Flea in her Ear | Herr Schwarz | Richard Eyre | The Old Vic |
| 2008 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Oberon | Liam Halligan | Storyteller's Theatre Company, Dublin with Irish Chamber Orchestra |
| 2008 | Deathtrap | Sidney Bruhl | Ryan McBryde | English Theatre Frankfurt |
| 2004 | The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs | Vlok | Dana Fainaru | Salisbury Playhouse |
| 2004 | As You Like it | Dukes Frederick and Senior | Ellie Jones | Orange Tree Theatre/ Arundel Festival |
| 2003 | High Society | George Ketteridge | Ian Talbot | Regent's Park Open Air Theatre / Olivier Award nominated |
| 2003 | Two Gentlemen of Verona | Duke of Milan | Rachel Kavanaugh | Regent's Park Open Air Theatre |
| 2003 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Egeus | Michael Pennington | Regent's Park Open Air Theatre |
| 2001 | The Threepenny Opera | Tiger Brown | John Fulljames | Richmond Theatre and UK tour |
| 2001 | Measure for Measure | Lucio | Christopher Gelan | Theatre Unlimited UK tour |
| 2000 | Macbeth | Banquo | Paul Stebbings | TNT Theatre of Great Britain |
| 1999 | The Secret Diary of Samuel Pepys | King Charles II | Sue Pomeroy | Theatre Royal Brighton |
| 1999 | A Christmas Carol | Narrator and Fred | Christer Berg | English Theatre Stockholm |
| 1998 | Sweeney Todd | Pirelli | Peter Rowe | Theatr Clywd |
| 1997 | Enter the Guardsman | The Wigsmaster | Jeremy Sams | Donmar Warehouse / Evening Standard Award nominated |
| 1996 | What Now Little Man? | Heilbutt | Margarete Forsyth | Greenwich Theatre |
| 1995 | La Traviata | Gaston | Nicholas Broadhurst | The Drill Hall / Olivier Award nominated |
| 1995 | A Doll's House | Torvald | Clare Davidson | Stadschouwburg Amsterdam |
| 1993 | Pacific Overtures | Sailor | Paul Kerryson | Leicester Haymarket Theatre |
| 1993 | Cinderella | Baron Hardup/Baron Bonkers | Paul Kerryson | Leicester Haymarket Theatre |
| 1992 | The Love of Don Perlimplin for Belisa in the Garden | Don Perlimplin | Liam Halligan | Old Red Lion Theatre, London |
Narrator
| Year | Chamber Work | Festival |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale (the whole work) | Trasimeno Music Festival with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, conductor Hannu Lintu in Trevi, Umbria, Italy |
| 2015 | Poulenc's Babar | Trasimeno Music Festival with Angela Hewitt, pianist in Trevi, Umbria, Italy |
| 2015 | Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ. Reading poetry of Mark Strand. | Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival with Anthony Marwood and Richard Lester Peasmarsh, East Sussex, UK |
| 2015 | A Kurt Weill Cabaret, singer | Yellow Barn Music Festival, Vermont |
| 2015 | A Kurt Weill Cabaret, singer | Dallas Symphony Orchestra's " Coming to America" series (Soluna International Arts and Music Festival) |
| 2014 | Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale, playing The Devil | North Aldborough Festival, Yorkshire |
| 2013 | Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale ( the whole work) | Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Ensemble 10/10 with Anthony Marwood, violin |
| 2012 | Sally Beamish's The Seafarer | Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival with Matthew Trussler, violin. Thomas Carroll, Cello. Ashley Wass, piano/ BBC Radio 3 Broadcast |
| 2011 | Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ. Reading poetry of Mark Strand. | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields |
| 2010 | Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata, reader | King's Place Concert Hall with the Dante Quartet |
| 2009 | Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ. Reading poetry of Mark Strand | Brentano String Quartet, New Jersey |
| 2008 | Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream playing Oberon | Irish Chamber Orchestra, National Concert Hall, Dublin |
| 2008 | Aaron J. Kernis's The Four Seasons of Futurist Cuisine | Portland Chamber Music Festival, Maine, US |
| 2007 | Sally Beamish's The Seafarer | IMS Prussia Cove, Cornwall |
| 2007 | Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale (the whole work) | Portland Chamber Music Festival, Maine, US |
| 2007 | Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ | Dante Summer Music Festival, Cornwall |
| 2007 | Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata, reader | Dante Summer Music Festival with the Dante Quartet |
| 2007 | T.S. Elliot's The Four Quartets, reader | Spitalfields Festival with the Dante Quartet playing Beethoven's String Quartet Op.123 |
| 2007 | Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale – Narrator | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – UK tour with Anthony Marwood playing the Soldier |
| 2005 | Harold Meltzer's Sindbad | Peabody Trio, Lively Arts, San Francisco and the American Academy of Rome, Italy |
| 2005 | H.K. Gruber's Frankenstein | Collage New Music, Boston, Massachusetts |
| 2005 | Peter Maxwell Davies Eight Songs for a Mad King | Yellow Barn Music Festival, Amherst, Massachusetts |
| 2005 | Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale, Narrator | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Aldeburgh Festival |
| 2005 | Aaron J. Kernis's The Four Seasons of Futurist Cuisine | Peabody Trio with Violaine Melancon, violin. Natasha Brofsky, cello. Seth Knopp, piano |
| 2002 | Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale, Narrator | Hebrides Ensemble at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh |
| 2002 | Waiting for Beethoven playing Prince Karl Lichnowsky | Florestan Festival with Sue Tomes, pianist Peasmarsh, East Sussex UK |
| 2001 | Viktor Ullmann's The Love and the Lay of Cornet Christoph Rilke | Music at Salem, New York with Kyoko Hashimoto, pianist |
| 2001 | Arnold Schoenberg's Ode to Napoleon | Music at Salem, NY |
| 2001 | Arnold Schoenberg's Ode to Napoleon | Yellow Barn Music Festival with piano quintet, Brattleboro, Vermont |
| 2000 | Alan Ridout's Ferdinand the Bull | Yellow Barn Music Festival with Anthony Marwood, violinist |
| 1997 | Viktor Ullmann's The Love and the Lay of Cornet Christoph Rilke | Wigmore Hall with William Howard, pianist and Warwick Arts Festival |
References
- ↑ Verhallen, Frank (18 February 1992). "Weemoed met Kurt Weill-programma". Trouw. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
- ↑ Willis, John; Barry Monush (2000). Screen World Volume 50: 1999. Hal Leonard. p. 195. ISBN 978-1-55783-410-2.
- ↑ Keyes, Bob (16 August 2007). "Chamber Festival closer to 'center,' set to go, grow". Portland Press Herald.