"Gramophone" writes about Marianne Beate Kielland: «The mezzo-soprano is quite outstanding: strong, firm, sensitive in modulations, imaginative in her treatment of words, with a voice pure in quality, wide in range and unfalteringly true in intonation.» She is educated from Norwegian Academy of Music, where she studied with Svein Bjørkøy. She has also studied with Oren Brown and Barbara Bonney. She is one of Scandinavia's foremost singers, and she regularly appears in the concert halls of Europe, Japan and America…
"Gramophone" writes about Marianne Beate Kielland: «The mezzo-soprano is quite outstanding: strong, firm, sensitive in modulations, imaginative in her treatment of words, with a voice pure in quality, wide in range and unfalteringly true in intonation.»
She is educated from Norwegian Academy of Music, where she studied with Svein Bjørkøy. She has also studied with Oren Brown and Barbara Bonney.
She is one of Scandinavia’s foremost singers, and she regularly appears in the concert halls of Europe, Japan and America with conductors such as: Phillippe Herreweghe, Fabio Biondi, Jordi Savall, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Christophe Rousset, Marc Minkowski, Masaaki Suzuki, Thomas Søndergård, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Thomas Dausgaard, Jos van Immerseel, Manfred Honeck, Daniel Reuss and Christian Eggen.
In 2012 she was US Grammy nominee in "Best Vocal Classical Album» for «Veslemøy Synsk» by Olav Anton Thommessen, and with this and more than 40 other recordings and a wide range of repertoire and performances, she is established as a remarkable interpreter of music from baroque to contemporary era.
Jan 2019