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

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

  1. Verhallen, Frank (18 February 1992). "Weemoed met Kurt Weill-programma". Trouw. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
  2. Willis, John; Barry Monush (2000). Screen World Volume 50: 1999. Hal Leonard. p. 195. ISBN 978-1-55783-410-2.
  3. Keyes, Bob (16 August 2007). "Chamber Festival closer to 'center,' set to go, grow". Portland Press Herald.
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