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The Norwegian mezzo-soprano, Kristin Mulders, mezzo-soprano, started taking voice lessons at the age of 19, when studying music at Wartburg College, Iowa (Sophomore year, vocal performance / piano studies, choir and language studies: 1997-1998). At The Grieg Academy in Bergen, Norway she obtained her Bachelor of Music degree with the Norwegian tenor Harald Bjørkøy and Norwegian soprano Hilde Haraldsen Sveen (1997-2002) and her Master of Music degree with Professor Hilde Haraldsen Sveen (2002-2004). She was the recent student of Professor Eva Blahová. She also attended master-classes with Elena Obraztsova, Peter Schreier, Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz, Håkan Hagegård, Elisabeth Söderström, Susanna Eken, Robert Levin, Malcolm Bilson, Njål Sparbo.
Kristin Mulders is a versatile singer, and with her lyrical coloratura mezzo-soprano voice she sings versatile repertoire includes Lieder, opera and Baroque music, as well as music from the Renaissance to modern neo-classical and cabaret music. During the last years she has received several scholarships for her work. Despite a quite short career, she has given numerous recitals both in Norway and abroad, and the last year she performed in festivals like Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center, New York, Edinburgh Festival, Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, Budapest Spring Festival, and Festival Internacional Cervantino in Mexico. She is regularly to be heard in solo-parts with Baroque-ensembles, choirs and orchestras and has sung with i.e. Bergen Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Stavanger Cathedral-choirs and Stavanger Symfoniorkester, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Concerto Copenhagen, Savannah Choral Society and Savannah Symphony Orchestra, Forsvarets Musikkorps Vestlandet, Collegiûm Mûsicum Choir and orchestra, Voci Nobili, etc .She has worked with conductors like Peter Schreier, Andrew Litton, and Eivind Gullberg Jensen. She has done several solo concerts in Norway and abroad, including at Edvard Griegs home Troldhaugen. Her repertoire includes solo parts in works like J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248), Mass in B-minor (BWV 232) and St. Johns Passion (BWV 245), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, W.A. Mozart, Verdi and Maurice Duruflé Requiems, L.v. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, George Frideric Handel's Messiah, Arvo Pärt's Passio, Schnittke's Requiem, Charpentier's Te Deum and Messe de Minuit, Allegri's Miserere, Dietrich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri and Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah.
In opera Kristin Mulders has sung the role of Annina in La Traviata, and understudied Cherubino in W.A. Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, in addition to Mercedes in Georges Bizet's Carmen. At Copenhagen Operafestival 2012 she will sing Dido and Sorceress in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas together with Concerto Copenhagen, led by Andrew Lawrence-King. She works regularly with Bergen Vocalensemble/Kor Vest, The New Opera in Bergen and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, and has appeared in opera productions like W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, Tosca, Carmen, Der fliegende Holländer, and Eugene Onegin. She was an understudy for the Mercedes -part in Carmen with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra cond. by Andrew Litton in 2007.
Kristin Mulders toured for Concerts Norway (Rikskonsertene) with the performance "Sangerinden"(The Singer), as well as appearing as a soloist with the early music ensemble Currentes, with whom she performed at Bergen International Festival 2012 after releasing a CD with the same group. She was a member of the Grammy-awarded vocal ensemble Ars Nova Copenhagen, leaded by conductor Paul Hillier (2010-2015).
Since 2003 Kristin Mulders has been engaged in different concerts and CD- projects in New York; she appears as a guest vocalist at the CD-recording Scandinavian Yultide Voices – led by New York-based pianist and composer Mika Pohjola. She has performed for the Norwegian broadcasting companies TV2 and NRK TV and radio, and sings the opening-track at the last CD of the prize-winning female choir Voci Nobili, conducted by Maria G. Helbekkmo. The choir was ranged as the Worlds Top Female Choir in 2007 by Musica Mundi. She received outstanding critics after two tours in the USA in 2007, the first of them which included working with the grammy-winning (2006) composer William Bolcom in Ann Arbour, Michigan, together with pianist Irene Simonsen, in order to prepare for a recording of Bolcom cabaret-songs. Later on, her interpretation of Gustav Mahler and Grieg-songs together with pianist Knut Chr. Jansson was also warmly received by the American audience.
Throughout the year Kristin Mulders holds several performances with different Baroque ensembles, in addition to solo-recitals with different pianists and chamber music-groups. She was engaged in a music and art celebration of the Geirr Tveitt and Olav H.Hauge-anniversary 2008 in New York - a co-operation between the Trygve Lie Gallery , Hauge/Tveitt08 and HardingPuls - where she did a first performance of songs to Olav H.Hauge poems written for Mulders by Mika Pohjola. She is currently based in Copenhagen. |
