The Ladies’ Morning Musical Club presents

Mezzo-Soprano Christianne Stotijn

Dutch mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn initially studied violin at the Amsterdam Conservatorium. In 2000, she began intensive vocal training with Uda Reinemann, and continued her vocal studies with Jard van Nes, Noelle Barker and Dame Janet Baker. Over the years she has won numerous awards, including the prestigious ECHO Rising Stars Award 2005/2006, the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2005, and the Nederlandse Muziekprijs in 2008. Additionally she was selected as BBC New Generation Artist in 2007. Christianne Stotijn is a passionate interpreter of art songs. She performs regularly in the world’s leading concert venues, including London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Vienna’s Musikvereinsaal and Konzerthaus, New York’s Carnegie Hall, Berlin’s Philharmonie, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and the Salzburg Mozarteum. She has also made a name for herself in roles from operas by Handel (Tamerlano, Giulio Cesare), Monteverdi (The Coronation of Poppea) and Tchaikovsky (Pique Dame) in addition to works by Mahler, Beethoven and Frank Martin. LMMC return engagement.

With JULIUS DRAKE, piano

PROGRAMME:

TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)
At the Ball
My Guardian, My Angel
If I had known
Lullaby
The Lights were being dimmed
The Sun has set

SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)
Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva, Opus 143
My Poems
Such Tenderness
Hamlet’s Dialogue
The Poet and the Tsar
No, the Drum Beat
To Anna Akhmatova

KORNGOLD (1906-1975)
Four Shakespeare Songs, Opus 31
Desdemona’s Song
Under the greenwood tree
Blow, blow thou winter wind
When birds do sing

R. STRAUSS  (1864-1949)
Ständchen, Opus 17 No. 2
Traum durch die Dämmerung, Opus 29 No. 1
Freundliche Vision, Opus 48 No. 1
Cäcilie, Opus 27 No. 2
Schlechtes Wetter, Opus 69 No. 5
Nachtgang, Opus 29 No. 3
Zueignung, Opus 10 No. 1

To learn more about Christianne Stotijn: www.christiannestotijn.com

The LMMC is a non-profit organization.
For more information and to purchase tickets: online at www.lmmc.ca
(Please note that web reservations must be done by 1pm on the Friday before the concert.)
By phone at 514-932-6796 Monday to Friday, from 10am to 1pm.
Reservations are recommended as concerts often sell out.
If tickets are still available, they can be purchased at Pollack Hall’s box office as of 2:30pm on the day of the concert.