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Soile Marja Isokoski (born 14 February 1957) is a Finnish lyric soprano. She is an opera singer as well as a concert and lieder singer.


Career


Isokoski was born in Posio, Finland. She graduated from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki (a cantor-organist diploma, a singing teacher's degree and a singing diploma) and made her concert debut there in 1986.[1]

Isokoski won the Lappeenranta song competition in Finland (1987), the Elly Ameling Competition in the Netherlands (1988), and the Tokyo International Singing Competition (1990). In 1987 she was a finalist in the BBC Singer of the World competition in Cardiff.

She worked first as a church musician in Northern Finland. In 1987 she was engaged as a soloist with the Finnish National Opera and stayed there until 1994. Her first appearance there was as Mimi in Puccini's La bohème in 1987.

Isokoski has sung at all the leading opera houses in Europe, including the Vienna State Opera, Théâtre du Châtelet, Opéra Bastille, La Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin State Opera, Semperoper, the Hamburg State Opera, and the Cologne Opera.

She made her début at the Metropolitan Opera as the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro in 2002. The New York Times wrote on 28 January 2002: "Ms. Isokoski... touched on the Countess' sense of abandonment by the Count without diminishing her regal bearing or the graceful humor she must contribute to the second act. And her dark, burnished soprano should make her a good addition to the Met roster."

In 2007 Isokoski made her San Francisco Opera debut portraying the role of the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier.[2] In 2010 she made her Los Angeles Opera debut as Elsa in Lohengrin.[3]

She has also appeared at many festivals such as Salzburg Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Chorégies d'Orange, The Proms in London, Tanglewood Music Festival and Savonlinna Opera Festival.

Isokoski's song repertoire is extensive. She has given recitals with her regular accompanist Marita Viitasalo all over the world, including in New York, Washington, D.C., Fort Lauderdale, Vienna, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, Rome, Athens, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Tokyo.

Isokoski has appeared with many renowned conductors including Claudio Abbado, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, James Conlon, Andrew Davis, Colin Davis, John Eliot Gardiner, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, Marek Janowski, Neeme Järvi, Okko Kamu, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Yehudi Menuhin, Riccardo Muti, Sakari Oramo, Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Leif Segerstam, and Osmo Vänskä.


Roles



Recordings


CD

DVD


Awards and recognitions



References


  1. Richard Wigmore (2008). Isokoski, Soile. The Grove Book of Opera Singers. Oxford University Press. p. 234. ISBN 978-0-19-533765-5.
  2. "Der Rosenkavalier: SFist". SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports. June 11, 2007. Archived from the original on November 16, 2011.
  3. "Opera Today : December at Los Angeles Opera: Lohengrin and Rigoletto". www.operatoday.com.
  4. "BBC - BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, 1987 - The Final". BBC.
  5. Gramophone, The Classical Website, September 9, 2002
  6. "Ministry of Education and Culture, November 7, 2006, The State Music Prize awarded to Soile Isokoski". Archived from the original on July 27, 2011.
  7. "About Wigmore Hall Live | Watch & Listen". Wigmore Hall.
  8. "Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra". Classical:NEXT. 1 January 1970. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  9. BBC Music Magazine, May 2007
  10. The Sibelius Society, THE SIBELIUS MEDAL
  11. "Soile Isokoski mit Titel Kammersängerin ausgezeichnet". OTS.at.
  12. Group, Ondine Oy, A. member of The Naxos Music. "Diapason d'or de l'année 2008 for Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra's 'Kullervo' recording". www.ondine.net.
  13. "Le Soir, March 11 2010, Les Prix Caecilia 2009".
  14. "Conferment Ceremony of the Faculty of Theology, 27 May, 2011".

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Kammersänger Soile Marja Isokoski es una soprano lírica finlandesa nacida el 14 de febrero de 1957 en Posio, Finlandia. Se especializa en el repertorio de óperas y canciones de Mozart y Strauss. Junto a Karita Mattila, Camilla Nylund, Monica Groop, Lilli Paasikivi, Jorma Hynninen y Matti Salminen, uno de los más distinguidos exponentes del canto lírico de Finlandia.


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