Christianne Stotijn

Born in Delft, Ms Stotijn is also a virtuoso violinist as well as a singer. She studied violin with Lex Koff de Gidts and Alexander Kerr at the Amsterdam Conservatoire, gaining her solo diploma in 2000. During this time she commenced her vocal studies with Udo Reinemann with whom she continued to study at the conservatoires of Amsterdam and Metz. From there she graduated with the highest distinction in both song recital and opera.

Christianne Stotijn has attended master classes with Rudolf Janssen, Sarah Walker, and Jard Van Nes and has studied in London with Dame Janet Baker and Noelle Barker. She was a finalist in the Internationaler Wettbewerb fur Liedkunst Stuttgart 2001. In the same year she was awarded the Prix d'Excellence of the International Summer School 'Operaplus' in Kortenberg (Belgium), which led to a solo recital in Salt Lake City, USA in 2002.

She has participated in numerous festivals such as 'Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad' and 'Heures Romantiques de Touraine' singing songs from Mahler's Knaben Wunderhorn and his Kindertotenlieder as well as the Brahms Alto Rhapsody, which she also performed in 1999 with Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse, conducted Pascal Verrot. Christianne Stotijn has performed Schonberg's Das Buch der hangenden Garten in the Flanders Festival and Rossini's Petite Messe Solonelle with the Rias-Kammerchor under Daniel Reuss at the Roque d'Antherton Festival in France.

Further oratorio performances include Bach's Magnificat, the St John and St Matthew Passion, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, and the Durufle Requiem. She has also sung Handel's Messiah in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. She has worked with Jan Willem de Vriend and the Combattimento Consort, touring California with them in 2002.

Other future engagements for Ms Stotijn include concerts of the Mozart Requiem conducted by Claus Peter Flor with Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Missa Solemnis with Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, La Furie in Thyeste at the Reis Opera and Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels, and Eduige in Rodelinda with Teatro Carlo Felice.