Carolyn Sampson
(Sopranos)
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Carolyn Sampson
(Sopranos) Biography:
"… Carolyn Sampson's pure soprano cossets the words, savouring their expressive implications, relishing their shifts of rhythm and subtly sighing with bliss, yearning or heartache...." Geoffrey Norris, The Daily Telegraph, January 2010 Carolyn Sampson has established a reputation as one of the most exciting sopranos to emerge in recent years. Equally at home on the concert and opera stages, she has enjoyed notable successes both in the UK as well as throughout Europe and the US. Carolyn Sampson’s many roles for English National Opera have included the title role in Semele and Pamina (The Magic Flute) as well as roles in The Coronation of Poppea and The Fairy Queen. Elsewhere in the UK, she has sung Julietta (The Tales of Hoffmann) in concert with Richard Hickox at the St Endellion Festival. In France, she sang First Niece (Peter Grimes) for Opéra de Paris, Euridice and La Musica (L'Orfeo) with Le Concert d'Astrée, Asteria (Tamerlano) for Opéra de Lille, Morgana (Alcina) in concert at the Beaune Festival with Paul McCreesh, Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) for Opéra de Montpellier, Iphis (Jephtha) for Opéra National du Rhin and various roles in Purcell’s The Fairy Queen for Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Carolyn Sampson’s numerous concert engagements in the UK have included Messiah with The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Bach St Matthew Passion at the BBC Proms with The English Concert and Trevor Pinnock, and with the Bach Collegium Japan and Maasaki Suzuki, Britten Les Illuminations with Manchester Camerata and Nicholas Kraemer and Bach St Matthew Passion with the Hallé Orchestra and Mark Elder, and Haydn’s Creation with the London Mozart Players. She has also performed with City of London Sinfonia, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Scottish Chamber Orchestras. In Europe her many appearances have included Bach St Matthew Passion with The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Philippe Herreweghe, St John Passion with The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Gustav Leonhardt as well as concerts with Orchestre des Champs Elysées, La Chapelle Royale, Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Il Giardino Armonico, RIAS Kammerchor, Collegium Vocale Gent, Holland Sinfonia and Sonnerie. She has also appeared with the Bayerische Rundfunk, WDR Symphonieorchester Köln, Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Next season she makes her debut with Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly in performances and a Decca recording of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. She made her hugely successful debut at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in December 2010 in a performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Carolyn Sampson has toured the US with The King's Consort as featured soloist and has performed with San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, St Paul Chamber Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort and Music of the Baroque, Chicago. In 2007 she sang the title role in Lully Psyché for the Boston Early Music Festival and performed with the St Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra of San Francisco. Carolyn Sampson is a regular performer at the BBC proms and has also appeared in the BBC Proms Chamber Music Series, given recitals for BBC Radio 3 and appeared at the Wigmore Hall in a joint recital with Robin Blaze and also a programme of lute songs with Matthew Wadsworth. She also appears regularly in recital at the Saintes Festival. She made her recital debut at the Concertgebouw in 2007, and gave a recital at the 2008 Aldeburgh Festival. She took part in the BBC’s Purcell celebrations at Westminster Abbey in November 2009. Her many recordings for Hyperion with The King’s Consort include the music of Kuhnau, Knüpfer, Vivaldi, Zelenka, Monteverdi and Handel as well as Mozart in a highly acclaimed CD of Sacred Music selected as BBC Music Magazine’s “Record of the Month”. She has also recorded a highly-acclaimed CD of Stravinsky’s Les Noces Mass for Harmonia Mundi. Her most recent recording of Purcell songs for BIS was selected as Editor’s Choice in the December 2007 issue of Gramophone Magazine. She has also recorded Bach for Harmonia Mundi and BIS, Orfeo for Virgin Classics, Amor in Gluck's Elena e Paride for DG Archiv, Buxtehude for Linn Records and lute songs for Avie. Her disc of Rameau Opera Arias Règne Amour, with Ex Cathedra and Jeffrey Skidmore has received wide critical acclaim. Other recent releases include Handel Solomon with the Rias Kammerchor for Harmonia Mundi, Monteverdi Vespers with The King’s Consort and Robert King for Hyperion, Handel Duets with Robin Blaze for BIS, Messiah with The Sixteen and Bach Cantatas with Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki. In 2011, Carolyn Sampson makes her debuts with the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and will be appearing with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and New York Philharmonic Orchestras. This biography is for website use only. For a full and updated biography please email info@ingpen.co.uk Contact Details: Territories: |
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