Nathalie Stutzmann
Nathalie Stutzmann ( born May 6, 1965 in Suresnes ) is a French classic old singer and conductor. Your very dark and sonorous voice is often perceived as " bittersweet ".
Stutzmann studied piano, bassoon, chamber music and conducting. First singing lessons when she was by her mother, soprano Christiane Stutzmann. The daughter had initially to overcome their disappointment about their " too deep " voice. Later she studied at the Conservatory of Nantes from 1983 to 1987 at the École Nationale in Paris with Michel Sénéchal and brother Lou and finally song singing with Hans Hotter at the Ecole d'Art Lyrique de l' Opéra de Paris.
She made her debut in 1985 at Salle Pleyel in Paris with Johann Sebastian Bach's Magnificat and soon joined in Paris, Munich, Berlin, Barcelona, Lisbon, Zurich, Moscow, Brussels, Amsterdam and other cities, where they, inter alia, under Seiji Ozawa, Manuel Rosenthal, Claudio Scimone, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Mstislav Rostropovich, Michel Plasson, Colin Davis and Alain Lombard worked. In 1987 she won the first edition of the International Singing Competition New Voices of the Bertelsmann Foundation.
As a concert singer, she has appeared on with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She sang in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, performed with Brahms ' Alto Rhapsody and as a soloist in Mahler's symphonies and the Song of the Earth.
On the opera stage Stutzmann sang the title role in Handel's Giulio Cesare and Radamisto, the Disinganno in Il Trionfo del Tempo and Amastre Xerxes in the same composer, the Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice and Erda in Wagner's Das Rheingold.
As a recitalist Stutzmann works primarily since 1994 with the Swedish pianist Inger Sodergren. The focus is on the songs of their repertoire French and German composers such as Ernest Chausson, Gabriel Fauré, Francis Poulenc and Robert Schumann. Published in 2004 a recording of Schubert's Winterreise.
Her discography includes more than 75 titles, including works by Bach and Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms to Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Honegger. Their recordings have received, among others the Prize of the German Record Critics' Award, the Diapason d'Or, the Japan Record Academy Award and a Grammy. She gives master classes worldwide. In 2009, she also founded her own chamber orchestra Orfeo 55, who plays both modern and historical instruments.