Bernarda Fink

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

Life

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

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

In addition, Fink has made particularly as an interpreter of accompanied song and the orchestral song a name. Together with pianist Roger Vignoles she took on Schumann's cycle woman love and life and his Lenau songs and the songs Antonín Dvořák. She also sang Wagner Wesendonklieder, Mahler's Song of the Earth, Strauss's Four Last Songs and Berlioz's Les Nuits d' été.

Among the orchestras with which Fink occurred, including the London and the Vienna Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the English Baroque Soloists, I Solisti Veneti, the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields and the Musica Antiqua Köln. She has worked with conductors such as 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 joined the Vienna Festival at the Theater an der Wien as Cecilio in Mozart's Lucio Silla under Nikolaus Harnoncourt on. In the same year, several concert performances of Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito, conducted by René Jacobs took place. The resulting CD recording was nominated for two Grammys. 2005 Fink was awarded by the Austrian Chancellor with the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art.

The Finks discography includes works by Claudio Monteverdi, Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach, Jean -Philippe Rameau, Johann Adolph Hasse and Joseph Haydn to Schubert, Gioachino Rossini, Anton Bruckner and Robert Schumann. The recording of Giulio Cesare was awarded a Grammy, an Argentine recording songs was nominated for the 2006 Grammy Awards. They also received a number of the Diapason d' Or and once a Gramophone Award.