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Christianne Stotijn
Mezzo-soprano
‘Her instrument is a fine
one … her musical manner
and emotional steering
were quietly confident and
ultimately compelling.’
Igor Toronyi-Lalic, The Arts Desk, on
Christianne Stotijn & the LSO, October 2009
Mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn, a native
of Delft in The Netherlands, completed her
solo violin studies in 2000, after which she
followed an intensive vocal course with Udo
Reinemann at the Amsterdam Conservatory.
She furthered her vocal studies with Jard van
Nes, Noelle Barker and Dame Janet Baker.
Over the years Christianne has won numerous
awards, including the prestigious ECHO Rising
Stars Award 2005/6, the Borletti-Buitoni Trust
Award in 2005, and the Nederlands Muziekprijs
in 2008. Additionally she was selected as
BBC New Generation Artist in 2007.
Accompanied by pianists Joseph Breinl
and Julius Drake, with whom she has a
longstanding duo partnerships, she performs
regularly in the world’s leading concert
venues, including the Wigmore Hall in
London, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw’s
Main Hall and Recital Hall, Vienna’s
Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Carnegie Hall
in New York, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
and Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Salzburg
Mozarteum, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in
Brussels, Kennedy Center in Washington and
Atlanta’s Spivey Hall. Christianne made her
Berlin Philharmonic debut in a performance
of Schoenberg’s Das Buch der Hängenden
Gärten, accompanied by Mitsuko Uchida.
The conductor Bernard Haitink has had a
profound influence on Christianne Stotijn’s
career. After successful performances of
Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder with the Orchestre
National de France and the Concertgebouw
Orchestra, Haitink invited her to perform
Mahler’s Symphony No 2 at the BBC Proms,
Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 at the Lucerne
Festival, the Rückert-Lieder with the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, the Matthäus-Passion
with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and
Das Lied von der Erde with the LSO.
Christianne has also worked with world-class
conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Vladimir
Jurowski, Ivan Fischer, Gustavo Dudamel,
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jaap van Zweden, Marc
Minkowski, René Jacobs, Charles Dutoit and
Andris Nelsons, and orchestras including the
Berlin Philharmonic, LSO, Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra, Orchestre National de France,
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, London
Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra and
the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen
Rundfunks.
Christianne Stotijn also appears regularly on
the stage. She has sung the role of Pauline in
Pique Dame at the Paris Opera, Ottavia in
Poppea at the Nederlandse Opera and Cornelia
in Giulio Cesare at the Théâtre de la Monnaie
in Brussels and De Nederlandse Opera.
Christianne sang the title role in Tamerlano at
the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and
Ottavia in Poppea at the Teatro Campoamor
in Oviedo and the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao.
She has worked with opera directors
including Graham Vick, Emilio Sagi, Pierre
Audi and Ursel and Karl-Ernst Herrmann.
Christianne Stotijn’s recordings are on
the Onyx label. Her discography to date
includes recordings of Schubert, Berg
and Wolf accompanied by Joseph Breinl,
Mahler songs accompanied by Julius Drake,
Tchaikovsky lieder accompanied by Julius
Drake, which won the BBC Music Magazine’s
Vocal Recording of 2010, and her latest Onyx
recording, Stimme der Sehnsucht – lieder by
Pfitzner, Strauss & Mahler, accompanied by
Joseph Breinl. For the MDG label, Christianne
Stotijn recorded a work close to her heart –
Frank Martin’s Die Weise von Liebe und Tod
des Cornets Christoph Rilke, which was
awarded the ECHO Klassik Award in 2008.
8 The Artists
Christianne Stotijn © Marco Borggreve