Christianne Stotijn mezzo soprano

Award Winner 2005

Christianne Stotijn began her musical studies at the Amsterdam Conservatoire. Having won several prizes including 2005/06 ECHO Rising Stars, she was selected for the BBC’s New Generation Artists scheme. Christianne Stotijn has performed at many of the world’s leading concert venues including the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Symphony Hall Birmingham, Royal Albert Hall, Carnegie Hall and Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and with such orchestras as the Orchestre National de Paris, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, and BBC Symphony Orchestra. She has worked with conductors such as Bernard Haitink, Philippe Herreweghe, Gustavo Dudamel, Frans Bruggen and Sir Andrew Davis. Her opera engagements have taken her to the Aix-en-Provence Festival where she performed the title role of Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri. Her future operatic engagements include Ottavia in Poppea at the Netherlands Opera, Cornelia in Giulio Cesare at the Monnaie, Netherlands Opera and Bilbao Opera and in 2010 she will make her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in the title role of Tamerlano. In recital, Christianne Stotijn has appeared in the Vienna Musikverein, Zankel/Carnegie Hall, Philharmonie Cologne, Mozarteum Salzburg, Wigmore Hall and Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels. Recently she took part on a tour of North America which included recitals in Montreal, Middlebury College, Union College and Washington DC. Future recitals include her second tour of North America in February 2009. In concert she will perform Mahler 2 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink, Das Lied von der Erde with Deutsche Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Ivan Fischer, St Matthew Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Mark Padmore’s concept at the Aldeburgh Festival, Rückert-Lieder with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a series of three concerts with the Residentie Orchestra in The Hague with Neeme Jarvi, Marc Minkowski and Jaap van Zweden, Wesendonck Lieder with the Czech Philharmonic, Missa Solemnis with the Dresden Musikfestpiele and Gabrieli Consort and a month long tour of Australia where she will appear with the Melbourne Symphony, Adelaide Symphony and West Australian Symphony Orchestra.

Last updated: September 2007

Photograph taken by Marco Borggreve