Dorothee Mields
Soprano
“Dorothee Mields is radiant” - Gramophone, October 2009
Dorothee Mields studied in Bremen with Elke Holzmann and in Stuttgart with Julia Hamari. The music of the 17th and 18th centuries became a major focus of her musical activities early in her career. Contemporary music also forms an increasingly important part of her repertoire. Among other works, she sang the title role in the world première of J.M. Staud's opera “Berenice” at the Munich Biennale 2004. Her wide-ranging repertoire comprises works of Monteverdi, Bach and Mozart to compositions by Boulez, Grisey and Beat Furrer.
Today a steadily growing discography of more than 40 recordings, some of which have won awards, documents her active concert career. She has made recordings with numerous international broadcasters and CD labels (Sony Classical, BIS, Harmonia Mundi, cpo). In September 2008 Sony Classical released a Dowland CD “In Darkness let me Dwell” with Dorothee Mields and Hille Perl.
Dorothee Mields is a welcome guest at international festivals such as the Leipzig Bach Festival, Suntory Music Foundation Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, Flanders Festival, Vienna Festival, the Handel Festivals in Halle and Göttingen and the Tanglewood Festival. She performs regularly with Collegium Vocale Gent, Bach Collegium Japan, Netherlands Bach Society, Flanders Recorder Quartet, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Klangforum Vienna and with conductors Ivor Bolton, Beat Furrer, Paul Goodwin, Martin Haselböck, Philippe Herreweghe, Gustav Leonhardt, Kenneth Montgomery, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Stephen Stubbs, Masaaki Suzuki and Jos van Veldhoven.
Recent highlights included Bach’s “St. John Passion” with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Grisey “Quatre Chants” with Klangforum Vienna under the baton of Simone Young in Hamburg, Bach “Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten” with the Freiburger Barockorchester, Strawinsky’s “Threni” with the RIAS Chamber Choir and the Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin under the baton of Stefan Asbury, as well as her debut at the Salzburg Festival in August 2007 with Klangforum Vienna (Grisey “Quatre Chants”, conductor: Emilio Pomárico). This was followed by Haydn “Lord Nelson at the Nile” at the Styriarte Graz, Bach “Weihnachtsoratorium” with the Thomanerchor and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (Conductor: Georg Christoph Biller), Bach Magnificat and “Weihnachtsoratorium” with the RIAS Chamber Choir and Hans-Christoph Rademann, Grisey “Quatre Chants” with Emilio Pomárico at the Casa da Música Porto/Portugal, and her first cooperation with the Orchestra of the 18th Century under the baton of Frans Brüggen (Bach “b-minor Mass”) and Handel “Solomon” with the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de Espana Madrid (Conductor: Andreas Spering).
In 2009/10 Dorothee Mields sings several concert tours with Collegium Vocale Gent and with the Netherlands Bach Society and will reappear again with Dowland “In Darkness let me Dwell” together with Hille Perl and the Sirius Viols. Further highlights are a CD production with Chopin Songs for the Fryderyk Chopin Institute Warszaw (for the polish CD series “Real Chopin”) and, in October 2009, the world premiere of Harald Weiss’ Requiem “Schwarz vor Augen und es ward Licht” with the Hannover Boys Choir and the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover under the baton of Jörg Breiding.
SEASON 2009/2010
