Siri Karoline Thornhill is a Norwegian classical

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for concert and opera, known for singing music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Career

Thornhill studied singing first in her hometown

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with Marit Storækre and continued with a scholarship from the Norwegian government at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with

Marius van Altena Marius van Altena, born Marius Hendrikus Schweppe (10 October 1938) is a Dutch tenor. He was one of the pioneers of historically informed performance of Baroque and Renaissance music. He has also sung Baroque opera, worked as conductor and as an a ...

, Rita Dams and Diane Forlano. She took master-classes with

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, Elly Ameling, Ton Koopman, Beata Heuer-Christen, Anna Reynolds and

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. Thornhill has recorded Bach cantatas with Sigiswald Kuijken and La Petite Bande, the soloists also forming the choir. With them she performed among other cantatas Bach's cantata for the fourth Sunday after Trinity, ''Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ'', BWV 177, at the Rheingau Musik Festival in the Eibingen Abbey. She appeared in Antonio Lotti's ''Requiem'' with the Thomas Hengelbrock's Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, and in Handel's '' Messiah'' with the

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conducted by Jörg Breiding. She recorded in 2001 '' Ein deutsches Requiem'' with

Klaus Mertens Klaus Mertens (born 25 March 1949, in Kleve) is a German bass and bass-baritone singer who is known especially for his interpretation of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach for bass voice. Career Klaus Mertens took singing lessons ...

and the choir of the Bremen Cathedral, conducted by Wolfgang Helbich. She took part in two world-premiere recordings with dramatic church music by Simon Mayr for Naxos, such as ''Jacob a Labano fugiens'' and in 2013 his reconstructed Requiem. She has collaborated with the Camerata Köln and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir in the project

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. In 2009 she recorded the Bach solo cantatas for soprano with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra and the Cologne Bach Chorus, conducted by Helmut Müller-Brühl, reviewed by George Chien:

"The present disc reveals an appealing vocal quality—clean, agile, superbly controlled, secure throughout the range—serving an appropriate understanding of the texts."

Thornhill has sung

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opera roles, such as Clomiri in Handel's '' Imeneo'' with the Capella Augustina conducted by Andreas Spering at the Halle Opera House, in Rameau's '' Dardanus'' in Freiburg, in carnival music from Venice and Florence with Hengelbrock at the Komische Oper Berlin, in

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's ''

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'' at the Quedlinburg Cathedral, and in Reinhard Keiser's ''Sieg der fruchtbaren Pomona''. In August 2006 she made her debut as Donna Anna in Mozart's ''

Don Giovanni ''Don Giovanni'' (; K. 527; Vienna (1788) title: , literally ''The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni'') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanis ...

'' with Kuijken at the Festival de l'Opera in Beaune and the Bruges Early Music Festival. She has also appeared in opera premieres of the 20th and 21st century such as ''Odysseus's Women'' of Louis Andriessen in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. She has appeared at international festivals such as the Handel Festival Halle, the

Handel Festival Göttingen George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos. Handel received his trainin ...

and the Lucerne Festival.

References

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