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Dorothee Mields
Performer (soprano)
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Soprano Dorothee Mields studied in Bremen with Elke Holzmann and in Stuttgart with
Julia Hamari. After completing her studies she first collaborated extensively with
conductors Ludger Remy and Thomas Hengelbrock in particular.
The music of the 17th and 18th centuries, which has always fascinated her, became a
major focus of her musical activities early in her career. Contemporary music also
forms an increasingly important part of Dorothee Mields’s repertoire. Among other
works, she sang the title role in the world première of J.M. Staud’s opera
Berenice (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 over 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).
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.
Dorothee Mields performs regularly with Collegium Vocale Gent, the Bach Collegium
Japan, Netherlands Bach Society, Flanders Recorder Quartet, Ensemble orchestral de
Paris, Klangforum Wien and with conductors Ivor Bolton, Beat Furrer, Martin Haselböck,
Philippe Herreweghe, Gustav Leonhardt, Kenneth Montgomery, Helmut Müller-Brühl,
Hans-Christoph Rademann, Stephen Stubbs and Jos van Veldhoven.
Recent highlights have been recordings of the opera Demofoonte by Joseph
Schuster and Joseph Haydn’s The Creation (both released on DHM), Pierre
Boulez’s Pli selon pli at the Berlin Konzerthaus as well as Bach’s St. Matthew
Passion conducted by Philippe Herreweghe at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Mozart’s
Exsultate, jubilate with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in Japan, the Fauré
Requiem with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Italy, a recording of C.P.E. Bach’s Songs
after Christoph Fürchtegott Gellert with Ludger Remy at the pianoforte and Bach
cantatas with the Bach Collegium Japan under Masaaki Suzuki’s baton in the Tokyo Opera
City Concert Hall.
Dorothee Mields’s engagements during the 2006/07 season include major projects with
Collegium Vocale Gent and the Netherlands Bach Society as well as her debut at the
Moscow Easter Festival (Grisey Quatre chants and Mozart Requiem) and
several concerts with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra of Toronto in Canada.
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