Carolyn Sampson Soprano

Equally at home on the concert and opera stages, A consummate recitalist, Carolyn Sampson Carolyn Sampson has enjoyed notable successes appears regularly at the Wigmore Hall where she in the UK as well as throughout Europe and the was a “featured artist” in the 14/15 season. She US. has given recitals at the Oxford and Leeds Lieder, Saintes and Aldeburgh Festivals as well as at the On the opera stage her roles have included the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Barcelona, Freiburg, title role in Semele and Pamina in The Magic Flute Oper Frankfurt, Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin, Vienna for English National Opera, various roles in Konzerthaus, and a recital tour of Japan. Purcell’s The Fairy Queen for Glyndebourne Festival Opera (released on DVD) and both Anne Carolyn has developed a partnership with the Truelove The Rake’s Progress and Mélisande pianist Joseph Middleton over recent years. Her Pelléas et Mélisande in Sir David McVicar’s debut song recital disc with Joseph, 'Fleurs', was productions for Scottish Opera. Internationally released early in 2015 featuring songs by she has appeared at Opéra de Paris, Opéra de composers from Purcell to Britten, and was Lille, Opéra de Montpellier and Opéra National du nominated in the solo vocal category of the Rhin. She also sang the title role in Lully’s Psyché Gramophone Awards. Since then they have gone for the Boston Early Music Festival, which was on to release several further recordings for the released on CD and was subsequently nominated BIS label most recently ‘Album für Die Frau. for a Grammy in 2008. scenes from the Schumanns' Lieder’.

Carolyn’s numerous concert engagements in the Alongside her longstanding relationship with the UK have included regular appearances at the BBC BIS label she has released multi award-winning

Proms, and with orchestras including the BBC discs for Decca, Harmonia Mundi, and Hyperion,

Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, receiving accolades including the Choc de l'Année Britten Sinfonia, City of Birmingham Symphony Classica, Gramophone Magazine Editor’s Choice, Orchestra, English Concert, Hallé, Orchestra of BBC Music Magazine’s “Record of the Month”, an the Age of Enlightenment, Scottish Chamber ECHO Award, and a Diapason D’or. Her recording Orchestra, The Sixteen, and Royal Liverpool with Ex Cathedra for Hyperion, 'A French Baroque Philharmonic Orchestra. Diva' won the recital award in the 2015 Gramophone Awards. Carolyn was also In Europe her many appearances have included nominated for Artist of the Year in the 2017 concerts with Bergen Philharmonic, Freiburger Gramophone Awards, and her recording of Barockorchester, Gürzenich Orchestra, Leipzig Mozart’s Mass in C minor and Exsultate Jubilate Gewandhaus Orchestra, Orchestra with Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, won the Choral Award. Their subsequent Rotterdam Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw recording together of Bach St Matthew Passion Orchestra, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, also won the Choral Award in the 2020 Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Gramophone Awards. and Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Plans for this season and beyond include In the US Carolyn has featured as soloist with the performances with the BBC Philharmonic Boston, Cincinnati, Detroit, Minnesota Orchestra (Dutilleux Correspondances) a tour with Helsinki and San Francisco Symphonies, the Philadelphia Baroque (Schumann’s Genoveva), CBSO (Poulenc Orchestra, and the St Paul Chamber Orchestra, Gloria), Cappella Amsterdam (Frank Martin’s Le and is a regular guest at the Mostly Mozart Vin Herbe), Cleopatra Handel’s Giulio Cesare at Festival. In October 2013 she made her Carnegie the Palau in Barcelona and in North America Hall recital debut to a sold-out audience in the Handel’s Messiah with the Handel & Haydn Weill Recital Hall, and has given recitals at the Society, Orchestra of St Luke at Carnegie Hall (St Lincoln Center, New York, and San Francisco Matthew Passion), concerts and a recording with Performances. the Minnesota Symphony (Mahler 8) and a recital with Kristian Bezuidenhout for the Boston Early Carolyn works with conductors such as Sir Mark Music Festival. Elder, Harry Bicket, Ivor Bolton, Riccardo Chailly, Harry Christophers, Philippe Herreweghe, Louis September 2021 will also mark the release of Langrée, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Carolyn’s first solo orchestral recording in a disc Trevor Pinnock, Masaaki Suzuki and Donald of Canteloube’s Songs of the Auvergne with the Runnicles.

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Carolyn Sampson Soprano

Tapiloa Sinfonietta under the baton of Pascal Rophé for the BIS label.

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