Bernarda Fink

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Bernarda Fink (born August 29, 1955 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine classical singer ( mezzo-soprano ) of Slovenian descent.

Life

The daughter of a Slovenian lawyer, who emigrated to Argentina with his family in 1945, first studied education for four years at the Universidad de Buenos Aires before she got a place at the Instituto Superio de Arte del Teatro Colón . In 1985 she won first prize at the Nuevas Voces Líricas competition and moved to Geneva.

There she met her future husband, the Austrian diplomat Valentin Inzko , with whom she lived in Prague for six years. She performed here with various Czech orchestras such as the Czech and Prague Symphony Orchestra and the Suk Chamber Orchestra under Josef Suk . She first came into contact with baroque music through René Jacobs , which has since formed the core of her repertoire.

In addition, Fink has made a name for herself primarily as an interpreter of the accompanied song and the orchestral song. With the pianist Roger Vignoles she recorded Schumann's cycle Frauenliebe und -leben and his Lenau songs as well as the songs of Antonín Dvořák . She also sang Wagner's Wesendonklieder , Mahler's Lied von der Erde , Strauss ' Four Last Songs and Berlioz ' Les Nuits d'été .

The orchestras with which Fink has performed include the London and Vienna Philharmonic , the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra , the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin , the Orchester de la Suisse Romande , the English Baroque Soloists , I Solisti Veneti , the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the Musica Antiqua Cologne . She worked with conductors René Jacobs, Philippe Herreweghe , John Eliot Gardiner , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Trevor Pinnock , Sir Neville Marriner , Marc Minkowski , Sir Roger Norrington , Mariss Jansons , Riccardo Muti and others.

In 2005 she appeared at the Wiener Festwochen in the Theater an der Wien as Cecilio in Mozart's Lucio Silla under Nikolaus Harnoncourt . In the same year several concert performances of Mozart's La clemenza di Tito took place under René Jacobs. The resulting CD recording was nominated for two Grammys . In 2005 Fink was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art by the Austrian Chancellor .

Fink's discography includes works by Claudio Monteverdi , Georg Friedrich Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach , Jean-Philippe Rameau , Johann Adolph Hasse and Joseph Haydn through to Franz Schubert , Gioachino Rossini , Anton Bruckner and Robert Schumann. The recording of Giulio Cesare was awarded a Grammy, a recording of Argentine songs was nominated for a Grammy in 2006. She has also received the Diapason d'or several times and the Gramophone Award once .

In 2014 she received the professional title of Austrian Chamber Singer . Since 2015 she has also been a councilor of the VS / WG in Feistritz im Rosental .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Parliamentary question regarding the award of the Austrian professional title Kammersänger . (Resolution date November 25, 2009 to November 24, 2014). Retrieved September 19, 2015.
  2. ↑ Official site ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Feistritz im Rosental accessed on July 23, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.feistritz-rosental.gv.at
personal data
SURNAME Fink, Bernarda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION argentinian classical singer
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires