Josefien Stoppelenburg graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music in 2005.
Her repertoire is very wide, ranging from early to contemporary music. She is regularly invited as a soloist in oratories in the Netherlands and Germany and at big national choral events.She sang Haydn's 'Schöpfung', ‘Maria Vespers’ by Monteverdi, Bach's ‘St. John’s Passion’ and ‘St. Matthew’s Passion’ and several cantatas, Händel’s ‘Messiah’, Mozart’s - ‘Requiem’ and 'Coranation Mass' , Poulenc ‘s ‘Gloria’ and Masses by Rossini, Gounod, Janáçek, Zelenka and Schubert.
From 2005 until 2007 she was part of the Young Opera Ensemble of Cologne( Junge Kammeroper Köln - Germany). With freelance opera productions she performed several roles, such as Serpina (La Serva Padrone- Pergolesi), Amor (‘Orfeus ed Euridice’, Gluck) and Belinda (‘Dido and Aeneas’, Purcell). She sang with Salon Orchestra Pluche (NL), where she was able to demonstrate her flexibility and the extensiveness of her repertoire, containing opera, operetta, musical and lied.
Concerts with several orchestras enabled her to sing important lyrical soprano-aria’s such as Micaela- 'Carmen', Fiordili-gi – 'Cosí fan tutte', Pamina- 'Zauberflöte', and Rusalka – 'Rusalka'.
Josefien performs with several ensembles.With her sister Charlotte she forms the duo Unique Harmony of Two Voices. In 1997, the sisters were the first to win the Princess Christina Competition for vocalists after which they built up a na-tional and international reputation. They are regularly seen and heard on Dutch national television and radio. Concert tours have taken them to the United States, Venezuela, the United Arab Emirates and South Africa. The exceptional way their voices blend, perfected by outstanding individual technique and years of experience together has enabled them to reach a large audience. Their concert for the Dutch Royal Family was broadcasted life on Dutch national tele-vision.
They worked with orchestras like Noord Nederlands Orkest, Nationaal Philharmonisch Orkest, Johan Willem Friso Ka-pel, Amsterdams Promenade Orkest and Camerata Amsterdam and with conductors like Marcus Creed, Vladimir Ju-rowksi, Jurjen Hempel, Jan Stulen, Michael Tabachnik, Jeroen Weierink and Jules van Hessen. The sisters perform regu-larly at chamber music festivals , like the Grachtenfestival Amsterdam and Musikalische Sommer Ostfriesland. They are frequently asked to perform during business or private celebrations.
At present, Josefien regularly performs Poulenc’s famous mono-opera La Voix Humaine. In 2009 she partook in the Dutch International Chamber Opera Festival and in the Axis Festival . Her interpretation will be broadcasted on Cultura Television and were performed in several Dutch theaters last season.
This spring she made a concert tour in The Netherlands with Camerata Amsterdam to sing the Stabat Mater by Pergo-lesi in the Bach-version (Psalm 51 – Die Kantate).
Last Fall she sang a recital in the Bethaniënklooster in Amsterdam, which consisted of music composed especially for her and her duo Unique Harmony of Two Voices, by 11 Dutch and German composers.
Last December she sang the Messiah with Chicago's Baroque Band in the Chicago Cultural Center .In December she will sing Messiah with the Apollo Chorus (Stephen Alltop)and next Spring Irene in Theodora in Winterthur (Switzerland-Alexander Seidel)
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