María Cristina Kiehr

María Cristina Kiehr (* 1965 in Tandil, Buenos Aires Province ) is a native of Argentina soprano who has specialized particularly in the Baroque vocal and ancient music.

Biography

María Cristina Kiehr descended from Danish ancestors. Her first musical training ( violin ), she received in her native Argentina Tandil city. At age 17, she discovered her soft, delicate voice and a love of early music. After only one year of singing lessons in Argentina, she decided to go in 1983 to further vocal studies to Europe to educate yourself with René Jacobs and the Schola Cantorum in Baroque singing. At the same time she studied with the opera singer Eva Krasznai - Gombos in Basel vocal technique.

Maria Cristina Kiehr is one of the undisputed sizes of Baroque vocal and ancient music. She has participated in numerous concerts and recordings, among them the Concerto Vocale, René Jacobs, Concerto Köln, the Cantus Coelln, Hespèrion XX (now Hesperion XXI) under Jordi Savall and the ensemble Concerto Soave with the harpsichordist Jean -Marc Ayme. The latter ensemble is especially dedicated to the Italian music of the early 17th century.

Particularly, Maria Cristina Kiehr devoted to the music of the early Baroque. She has co-founded the ensemble La Colombina, which mainly focused on the repertoire of Spanish and Latin American Renaissance. Her operatic debut was Kiehr in Innsbruck in Cavalli's Giasone under René Jacobs. Her operatic repertoire includes all major roles by Monteverdi, Purcell, Telemann, Gluck and Vivaldi. But was also in many lesser known works on the stage.

In addition, it operates source research, reconstruction and new discoveries and their first performances in terms of early music. Many of her recordings were excellent. Your intake of Caldara 's Maddalena ai Piedi di Cristo ( Kiehr in the role of Mary Magdalene ) under René Jacobs won the 1997 Gramophone Award.

Kiehr lives in Basel, where she is married to the cellist Orlando Theuler.

Discography (selection)

• Lamentazioni per la Settimana Santa. María Cristina Kiehr and others, Concerto Soave, Dir Jean -Marc Ayme. Harmonia Mundi, Arles 2007, HMC 901952nd
• Canta la Maddalena. María Cristina Kiehr, Concerto Soave, you. Jean -Marc Ayme. Harmonia Mundi, Arles 2000, HMG 501,698th
• Claudio Monteverdi: Scherzi Musicali. María Cristina Kiehr, Stephan MacLeod, Concerto Soave, conductor Jean -Marc Ayme, Harmonia Mundi, Arles 2005, HMC 901,855th
• Sigismondo d'India: Madrigali e Canzonette. María Cristina Kiehr, Stephan MacLeod, Concerto Soave, conductor Jean -Marc Ayme. Harmonia Mundi, Arles 2003, HMC 901,774th
• Claudio Monteverdi: Vespers. Barbara Borden, María Cristina Kiehr, Jean Tubéry and others, Nederlands Kammerkor, Concerto Vocale, René Jacobs cond. Harmonia Mundi CD, 1996 ( Low 1990).
• Claudio Monteverdi: Vespers. Montserrat Figueras, Maria Cristina Kiehr among others, Coro della Musica Antiqua de Padova, La Capella Reial, conductor Jordi Savall. 1988, remastered 2007. AliaVox, ASVA 9855,