Caroline Stam
{{short description|Dutch classical soprano}}
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Caroline Stam is a Dutch classical soprano who has an international (European) performing career specializing in baroque repertoire, reinforced by a distinguished presence in modern recordings (see below).Christoph Wolff, The Leipzig church cantatas: 1st cycle (V: 1723-1724) and chorale cantatas of the 2nd cycle (I:1724-1725) (Complete Cantatas/Ton Koopman/Vol 10.) [http://tonkoopman.nl/cant10.htm Artist profiles] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612115113/http://tonkoopman.nl/cant10.htm |date=June 12, 2008 }}.
Education
Stam studied voice at the Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam with Erna Spoorenberg, graduated with honours, and continued in master classes with Elly Ameling.{{Cite web |title=Caroline Stam (Soprano) - Short Biography |url=https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Stam-Caroline.htm |access-date=2023-09-20 |website=www.bach-cantatas.com}}
Career
Stam has performed in recital in Germany, France, Spain and Great Britain with conductors such as Iván Fischer, David Willcocks and Ton Koopman. She appeared at the Festivals La Folle Journée in Nantes and the Bremer Bachfest. In 1995 she won first prize at the Grimsby International Competition in the categories Soprano as well as interpretation of French Lieder.[http://www.vocalemuziek.com/festival/Caroline_Stam.asp Caroline Stam] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090125011826/http://www.vocalemuziek.com/festival/Caroline_Stam.asp |date=January 25, 2009 }} on the website of the Duinoord Muziek Festival] (Dutch)
On the opera stage she appeared as Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute, Clarijn in Der Spiegel von Venedig of Hendrik Andriessen, Ninfa in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Dorinda in Handel's Orlando and Hélène in Chabrier's Une éducation manquée. She performs baroque oratorio and passion-music often, for instance (2009) Bach's Christmas Oratorio,E.g. Apeldoorn, December 2009, see [http://www.maartenengeltjes.com/en/calendar/ Maarten Engeltjes Calendar, 2009] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714011454/http://www.maartenengeltjes.com/en/calendar/ |date=July 14, 2011 }} St Matthew PassionSee, for example, [http://www.schnitgerorgelzwolle.nl/serie.php?id=16&archief=1 Schnitger Orgel Zwolle: Series] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724164921/http://www.schnitgerorgelzwolle.nl/serie.php?id=16&archief=1 |date=July 24, 2011 }} and St John Passion, Handel's Messiah, Israel in Egypt[http://www.robbertmuuse.com/agenda/2009/11/ Robbert Muuse engagements list November 2009] and Jephtha, and Classical works including Haydn's The CreationE.g. with Toonkunst Hilversum, 28 February 2009: [http://www.musicainstrumentalis.nl/schopfung.html Musica Instrumentalis Die Schöpfung programme] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724161550/http://www.musicainstrumentalis.nl/schopfung.html |date=2011-07-24 }} and TheresienmesseE.g. with the Laurenscantorij, Rotterdam, 2009 [http://www.laurenscantorij.nl/agenda.htm# Laurenskantorij programme] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100126145110/http://www.laurenscantorij.nl/agenda.htm%23 |date=January 26, 2010 }}. but also Romantic repertoire such as Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem.
Stam sang as soloist in several sections of the project of Ton Koopman to record the complete vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, herself a member of the choir since it was founded in 1992. With them she had a part in the 1994 recording of Henry Purcell's opera The Fairy-Queen.Erato Records 4509-98507-2 (2 CD). She is the principal soprano in Jos van Veldhoven's recording of the Bach St. John Passion with the Netherlands Bach Society.Channel Classics Records CD. In 2001, with the Utrecht Barok Consort under van Veldhoven at Utrecht and Amsterdam, she gave performances of the rarely heard oratorio La Morte di Abele (1732) by the Neapolitan Leonardo Leo.[http://www.trouw.nl/krantenarchief/2001/02/15/2350372/Klassieke_muziek.html 'Klassieke muziek' (Previews), Trouw, de Verdieping 15 February 2001]
She records with Camerata Trajectina, for instance in Songs of Jacob Cats and Dutch Theatre Music 1600-1650, and with them took part in the 2006 recorded reconstruction of Johan Schenck's early opera Bacchus, Ceres & Venus, for Louis Peter Grijp.Globe Recordings CD 6060. [http://www.camerata-trajectina.nl/display.php?l=en&i=discography#schenck See Ensemble website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724145833/http://www.camerata-trajectina.nl/display.php?l=en&i=discography#schenck |date=2011-07-24 }} She is also a soloist in the ongoing project Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia with Koopman to record the complete works of Dieterich Buxtehude, and took part in the presentation of the oratorio attributed to him, Wacht! Euch zum Streit gefasset macht under Koopman's direction at the Holland Festival of Early Music at the Muziekcentrum Vredenburg for the Utrecht Festival in 2005.{{Cite web |title=Concert reviews |url=http://www.musica-dei-donum.org/concert_reviews/HFOMU2005.html#Day%20Eight |access-date=2023-09-20 |website=www.musica-dei-donum.org}} She also participated in Koopman's reconstruction of Bach's St Mark Passion.[http://www.multiplevoice.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=163&Itemid=11 Vocaal Ensemble, Multiple Voice, 28 Oct 2008: Short biography] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724161516/http://www.multiplevoice.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=163&Itemid=11 |date=July 24, 2011 }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Caroline+Stam&qt=results_page Entries for recordings by Caroline Stam] on WorldCat
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Category:Dutch operatic sopranos
Category:Conservatorium van Amsterdam alumni
Category:Entertainers from Zaanstad
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