Liv Gudrun Stoveland Woie (born 12 March 1965 in
Lillesand, Norway) is a Norwegian soprano and singing teacher.
Biography
Stoveland was raised in a musical family. This brought her to a classical education as soprano at the
Agder musikkonservatorium, and eventually a diploma from the
Norwegian Academy of Music
The Norwegian Academy of Music (Norwegian: ''Norges musikkhøgskole'', NMH) is a university-level music conservatory located in Oslo, Norway, in the neighbourhood of Majorstuen, Frogner. It is the largest music academy in Norway and offers the ...
. She has participated in numerous productions in musical genres such as opera and church music, and has also taken up jazz.
She has recited solo concerts and has performed as soloist in works such as Handel's "Messiah", Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" and "Requiem" by Brahms. She has a large repertoire in songs and lieder, and has sung Grieg, Sibelius, R. Strauss and Hugo Wolf numerous times. In recent years she has mostly sung classical baroque music and toured with "Stabat Mater" by Vivaldi on the Amalfi Coast in Italy in autumn 2013.
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Her debut album ''Close your eyes'' was released in 2009. A second album is on the way 2015.]
Discography
*2009: ''Close Your Eyes'' ( Ponca Jazz Records)
References
External links
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Net-based singing lessons with Liv Stoveland
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Norwegian sopranos
Norwegian women jazz singers
Norwegian Academy of Music alumni
People from Lillesand
1965 births
Living people
20th-century Norwegian women singers
20th-century Norwegian singers
21st-century Norwegian women singers
21st-century Norwegian singers