Bernarda Fink, Mezzosoprano
Bernarda Fink, daughter of Slovenian parents, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and received her vocal and musical education at the „Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón” where she used to perform frequently. Bernarda is a notable exception: graceful, poised and intelligent, she is every inch the lady, and it’s no surprise to learn that she’s wife to the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Valentin Inzko. In February 2006 Bernarda Fink was awarded
the Austrian Honorary Medal for Art and Science by the Austrian chancelor.
So she began formal vocal training at 22 in the conservatoire attached to Buenos Aires’s opera house, the Teatro Colón, famous for its miraculous acoustics but now sadly closed and unsure of the future. In the 1980s she moved to Europe, but nothing much happened until she met the conductor René Jacobs, a counter-tenor of note “who understood the way my voice worked” and led her towards the baroque repertory where she has happily dwelt ever since. Bach is her desert island composer, she says, with Monteverdi second.
Acclaimed for her musical versatality, Bernarda Fink’s repertoire ranges from ancient music up to music of the 20th century. She frequently appears with such well known orchestras as the Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, London Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Staatskapelle Dresden, the Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra as well as with the best known Baroque Orchestras under such famous conductors as Herbert Blomstedt, Semyon Bychkov, Sir Colin Davis, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Valery Gergiev, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, René Jacobs, Mariss Jansons, Riccardo Muti, Sir Roger Norrington, Trevor Pinnock, Sir Simon Rattle, Jukka Pekka Saraste, Franz Welser-Möst among many others. Bernarda Fink has also appeared to wide critical acclaim in Argentina and at the main opera houses of Europe including the Teatro Real in Madrid.
Bernarda Fink regularly appears in recital at the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Wigmore Hall in London. She could further be heard at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, Carnegie Hall in New York and many others. In the 2009/10 season she appeared in recitals at the Schubertiade, the Edinburgh Festival, in Santago de Compostela, Aarhus, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Paris, at the Alice Tully Hall in New York and in Philadelphia. With Genia Kühmeier she can be heard in a duo-recital at the Wigmore Hall in London, in Madrid and Brussels and together with Sylvia Schwartz, Michael Schade and Thomas Quasthoff she performs Brahms’ LIEBESLIEDER-WALTZ in Baden-Baden.
Among her highlights of the 2009/2010 season are DIDO AND AENEAS with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Vienna, Mendelssohn’s ELIJAH in Hamburg, Mahlers II. and III. SYMPHONY with the Concertgebouw Orkest and Mariss Jansons, Perolesi’s STABAT MATER with the Berliner Barock Soloists, concerts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding, Strauss’ ROSENKAVALIER final terzet with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Fabio Luisi and Mahlers KINDERTOTENLIEDER in Brussels.
Bernarda Fink has made numerous highly acclaimed recordings. Her discography embraces almost 50 releases including Monteverdi, Handel, Bach, Rameau, Hasse, Haydn, Schubert, Rossini as well as Bruckner and Schumann. Many of them have been awarded coveted prizes such as the Diapason d’Or or the Grammy. Benarda enjoys a close collaboration with Harmonia Mundi, of which the most recent recordings include Lieder by Schubert with accompanist Gerold Huber and Bach Cantatas with the Freiburger Barockorchester.
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