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Christianne Stotijn - Mezzo-soprano

Unfortunately, Christianne Stotijn's concert with Simon Keenlyside and Thomas Adès scheduled for the 7th of March 2021 at the Barbican Hall was cancelled.

Christianne Stotijn performed in Beethoven's Mass in D (Missa solemnis) on the 28th of June 2019 at the Royal Festival Hall with conductor David Hill, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Bach Choir, Roderick Williams, soprano Sarah Fox, tenor Toby Spence.

She also performed in Beethoven's Choral Symphony with the Britten Sinfonia, Choir of Royal Holloway, soprano Jennifer France, Matthew Rose and tenor Ed Lyon under the baton of Thomas Adès on the 26th of May 2019 at the Barbican Hall.

Christianne Stotijn is professor at the University of Würzburg.

She founded 'Stichting Orplid' in 2013. She became artistic director of the 'Udo Reinemann International Masterclasses' in the same year

In 2010 she won the BBC Music Magazine Award for her recording of songs by Tchaikovsky, accompanied by Julius Drake and made her debut at the Royal Opera House as Tamerlano in one Handel's greatest operas Handel.

She won de Nederlandse Muziekprijs in 2008, ECHO Rising Stars Award in 2006 and the the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2005. The latter trust supported her until 2009.

In 2007 she became a BBC New Generation Artist.

She reached the final of the 2001 International Wettbewerb fur Liedkunst in Stuttgart.

Christianne Stotijn was replaced by Renata Pokupić for a concert with the Nash Ensemble on the 10th of December 2016 at the Wigmore Hall.

Wigmore Hall, 18-Nov-2015 / 19:30

Recital with pianist Joseph Breinl

  • Schubert:
    • Kolmas Klage D217, Blanka (Das Mädchen) D631, Die Liebende schreibt D673, Wehmut D772, Der Zwerg D771
    • Im Abendrot D799, An mein Herz D860
  • Alban Berg: Vier Lieder Op. 2
  • Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
    • Rheinlegendchen, Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz, Das irdische Leben, Nicht wiedersehen!, Scheiden und Meiden, Urlicht

Wigmore Hall, 11-May-2015 / 19:30

Recital with pianist Julius Drake

  • Strauss:
    • Ständchen Op. 17 No. 2
    • Traum durch die Dämmerung Op. 29 No. 1
    • Ruhe, meine Seele Op. 27 No. 1
    • In goldener Fülle Op. 49 No. 2
    • Schlechtes Wetter Op. 69 No. 5
    • Nachtgang Op. 29 No. 3
    • Freundliche Vision Op. 48 No. 1
    • Morgen Op. 27 No. 4
    • No. 1 Zueignung from Acht Gedichte aus 'Letzte Blätter' Op. 10
  • Korngold: 4 Lieder from Shakespeare Op. 31
  • Hanns Eisler: Hollywood Songbook
    • No. 23 Erinnerung an Eichendorff und Schumann, No. 7 Über den Selbstmord, No. 3 An der kleinen Radioapparat, No. 15 Hotelzimmer 1942, No. 19 Diese Stadt hat mich belehrt 'Fünf Elegien IV.', No. 26 Vom Sprengen des Gartens, No. 14 Der Kirschdieb
  • Kurt Weill: Walt Whitman Songs
    • No. 2 O captain! My captain!, No. 1 Beat! Beat! Drums!, No. 4 Dirge for two veterans, No. 3 Come up from the fields, father

She was born in Delft, the Netherlands, in 1977, and studied voice and violin at the Amsterdam Conservatorium and later with Dame Janet Baker. She finished her studies at conservatory in 2003 in Metz.

Royal Albert Hall, 29-Aug-2014

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection)

  • Kate Royal - Soprano, Christianne Stotijn, Swedish Radio Choir, Philharmonia Chorus, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding - Conductor

Christianne Stotijn performed at the BBC Proms again on the 17th of July 2013 in the world premiere of Thomas Adès's Totentanz with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and in the Wigmore Hall on 29th of October 2012.

She made her BBC Proms debut on the 6th of September 2006 in Mahler's Resurrection Symphony with the BBC Symphony Orchestra being conducted by Bernard Haitink.