BIOGRAPHY

Christianne Stotijn gained her solo diploma for violin in 2000 at the Amsterdam Conservatoire. She pursued her vocal studies in Metz, London, and Amsterdam where, under supervision of Udo Reinemann, she graduated in 2003 with the highest distinction. Since then, her vocal coaches have included Noelle Barker and Udo Reinemann and Jard van Nes. Currently she is being coached by Dame Janet Baker.

Christianne Stotijn has won several prizes including the 2005/06 ECHO Rising Stars Award and the 2005 Borletti Buitoni Award. In 2005 she joined the BBC New Generation Artists, an award which enables her to collaborate with all the BBC orchestras of renown in the UK.

She has worked with celebrated conductors such as Bernard Haitink, Rene Jacobs, Gustavo Dudamel, Sir Andrew Davis, Jaap van Zweden, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Philippe Herreweghe, Hartmut Haenchen, Rene Jacobs, Frans Brüggen, Marc Minkowski and Mark Wigglesworth, and has performed with leading orchestras such as The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Die Akademie für Alte Musik, Orchestre des Champs Elysées, Orchestre National de France, Concerto Köln, Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, the Residence Orchestra, and the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition, she has had guest performances at several festivals such as the Delft Chamber Music festival, Gergiev Festival, La Roque d'Anteron, Festival d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence and also at The Proms in The Royal Albert Hall, London.

Christianne Stotijn is an impassioned performer of songs working, within the chamber music context, with her regular duo partners Joseph Breinl, Julius Drake and David Selig. With them she has appeared in the world’s premier concert halls such as Kleine Zaal, Grote Zaal Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall London, Konzerthaus and Musikverein Vienna, Carnegie Hall New York, Théâtre des Champs Elysées and Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, Mozarteum Salzburg, Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels and Teatro alla Scala, Milan.

Christianne Stotijn records exclusively for Onyx Classics having already recorded a CD of songs by Schubert, Berg and Wolf with Joseph Breinl and Mahler songs with Julius Drake. In February 2006, she recorded Frank Martin’s Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke for MDG.

In 2003 Christianne Stotijn made her operatic debut with the Nationale Reisopera where she sang Carilda in Händel's Arianna in Creta. She has also performed Pauline in Pique Dame by Tchaikovsky at the Opéra National de Paris, Isabella in L'Italiana in Algeri at the Festival d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence and Ottavia in L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Arianna in Lamento d’Arianna at the Netherlands Opera and Cornelia in Giulio Cesare at the Netherlands Opera and Cornelia at the Monnaie in Brussels conducted by Rene Jacobs.

Future operatic engagements include Cornelia in Giulio Cesare at the Bilbao Opera, Ottavia in Poppea at the Opera de Oviedo, Bradamante in Alcina at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago and title role in the new production of Tamerlano at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Future recital and concert engagements include 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 and London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink, St Matthew Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Mark Padmore’s concept at the Aldeburgh Festival, Ruckert Lieder with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Haitink, a series of concerts with the Residentie Orchestra in The Hague in which she will work with conductors Neeme Jarvi and Jaap van Zweden, Wesendonck Lieder with the Czech Philharmonic, Ruckert Lieder with the Dallas Symphony, Missa Solemnis with the Dresden Musikfestpiele and Gabrieli Consort, Sea Pictures with the Melbourne Symphony. On the recital platform she will appear at the Wigmore Hall, Tonhalle Zurich, Monnaie, De Doelen Hall Rotterdam, Sage Gateshead, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Caixa Barcelona and a four city tour of the USA and Canada.