Ann-Helen Moen was born in Molde, Norway, and is a graduate of the Grieg Academy in Bergen and The Royal Danish Opera Academy in Copenhagen. She studies with Susanna Eken. Prizes include Norway’s most prestigious singing award, the Esso prize, and a special prize at the Belvedere competition, Vienna. Operatic engagements include Donna Elvira Don Giovanni with Philippe Jordan, Pamina Die Zauberflöte with Arnold Östmann, Sandrina La Finta Giardiniera (all by Mozart), the title role in Handel’s Semele and Anne…
Ann-Helen Moen was born in Molde, Norway, and is a graduate of the Grieg Academy in Bergen and The Royal Danish Opera Academy in Copenhagen. She studies with Susanna Eken. Prizes include Norway’s most prestigious singing award, the Esso prize, and a special prize at the Belvedere competition, Vienna.
Operatic engagements include Donna Elvira Don Giovanni with Philippe Jordan, Pamina Die Zauberflöte with Arnold Östmann, Sandrina La Finta Giardiniera (all by Mozart), the title role in Handel’s Semele and Anne Trulove in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress for Opera Graz, Austria; Semele and Almirena Rinaldo with William Christie in Zurich; the title role in Monteverdi’s Poppea in Braunschweig, Sandrina in Hanover and Anne Trulove in Trieste.
In Norway, she has sung Pamina, Zerlina Don Giovanni and Nina in the world premiere of Glenn Erik Haugland’s Rebekka for the Norwegian Opera and Tatyana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Micaëla and Laura Wingfield in Antonio Bibalo’s The Glass Menagerie for Den Nye Opera in Bergen.
Ann-Helen sings chamber music and oratorios frequently and has performed in concert halls, churches and festivals all over Europe and in the USA, where she made her debut at the Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall as part of The Andsnes Project in 2005.
www.annhelenmoen.com
August 2009