Pieter De Praetere is a Belgian countertenor. As a soloist he mainly focuses on baroque music. He is also a much sought-after figure in musical theatre.

Pieter was born into a musical family. At the age of 10, he started following voice training with Pascal Devreese in Ronse. At the age of 16 he moved to countertenor Steve Dugardin in Antwerp. During his studies in Literary Studies at Ghent University, he took lessons from Hilde Coppé. Shortly afterwards he moved to the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with Lena Lootens.

As a soloist, Pieter has built up a solid repertoire. For example, he performed the solo roles in Handel’s Messiah, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, and a significant portion of cantatas, motets and oratorios by J.S. Bach. Purcell, Vivaldi and other contemporaries are also often on the program. He has performed on stages at home and abroad. Among others, Pieter sings with the ensembles Musica Gloria, Il Gardellino, B’Rock, BachPlus, Apotheosis, Il Fondamento, etc.
He has been working intensively with Beniamino Paganini and Nele Vertommen of the Musica Gloria ensemble for several years. Together, they have made several successful European tours. They also recorded music by Vivaldi, Bach, Purcell and Händel that was well received by the public and in the media. This season they will again be performing together on national and international stages. Pieter will again be on stage with them in various concert programmes in the ’25-’26 season.

Pieter is also active in the opera world. In 2026 he will make his debut at LaMonnaieDeMunt in the role of Pastorello in Puccini’s Tosca (director: Rafael R. Villalobos). He previously appeared at the Bayreuth Baroque Festival in 2021 with B’Rock and Bart Naessens in Handel’s Judas Maccabeus. At the Reaktorhalle in Munich he portrayed the antagonist Pierre in Leon Zmelty’s contemporary opera “Invitation to a Beheading”, based on the novella by Vladimir Nabokov. With the Orchestre Royal de Wallonie he played the role of Farnace in Mozart’s “Mitridate, Re di Ponto” at the Midsummer Mozartiade Festival in 2024.

In addition to his work at home and abroad as a classical singer, Pieter is a much sought-after figure in the Flemish theater landscape. His role in the epic folk opera ‘Wij, De Verdronkenen’ at Wintervuur ​​​​Antwerp, the Oerol Festival (Netherlands), Marstal (Denmark) and Theater aan Zee Ostend did not go unnoticed. With Muziektheater Broder he has been touring Belgium for years with poetic family performances with and about classical music (Franzerl, Babushka, Seaking…)