Dorothee Mields
"The ineffable soprano aria ‘Dissolve, my heart, in tears, the grieving crux’ of the work, was heartbreakingly conveyed by the young German soprano Dorothee Mields" - The Globe and Mail, March 2007
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 Rémy 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 her 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, Bach Collegium Japan, Netherlands Bach Society, Flanders Recorder Quartet, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Klangforum Vienna and with conductors Ivor Bolton, Beat Furrer, Martin Haselböck, Philippe Herreweghe, Gustav Leonhardt, Kenneth Montgomery, Helmut Müller-Brühl, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Stephen Stubbs, Masaaki Suzuki and Jos van Veldhoven.
Last season's highlights included Bach's St. John Passion with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra in Canada, Grisey Quatre Chants pour franchir le seuil with Klangforum Vienna under the baton of Simone Young in Hamburg, Bach's Cantata Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten with the Freiburger Barockorchestra, Strawinsky's Threni with the RIAS Kammerchor and the Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin under the direction of Stefan Asbury, as well as Mahler's Symphony No 4 with the Orchestre des Champs Elysées under Philippe Herreweghe's baton.
Engagements 2007/2008 include her debut at the Salzburg Festival with Klangforum Vienna (August 2007/Grisey Quatre Chants/conductor: Emilio Pomárico/), a solo recital with Sinfonieorchester Aachen (October 2007/Handel arias) as well as concert tours with Collegium Vocale Gent (November 2007 and May 2008/conductor: Philippe Herreweghe; December 2007/conductor: Masaaki Suzuki) and the Netherlands Bach Society (March 2008/conductor: Jos van Veldhoven).
