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Charlotte
Riedijk has worked with many of today's leading conductors
such as Alan Gilbert, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Stefan
Asbury, Ingo Metzmacher, Hartmut Haenchen, Lev Markiz, Emilio
Pomárico, Julian Reynolds, Peter Rundel, Etienne Siebens,
Ed Spanjaard and Lucas Vis and has performed with the Flemish
Radio Orchestra, Dutch Radio Philharmonic, Holland Symfonia,
the Dutch Radio Chamber Orchestra, the WDR Symphony Orchestra
of Cologne, the Swedish Radio Symphony, the Stockholm Royal
Philharmonic amongst others throughout Europe.
Riedijk has sung as a guest soloist with leading
European ensembles including Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble
Modern, the Asko Ensemble, Schönberg Ensemble, Nieuw Ensemble,
Kammerensemble (Stockholm), the Osiris Piano Trio and the Altenberg
Trio of Vienna. In June 2008 she and her duo partner, pianist
Ellen Corver, made a successful debut at the Musikverein in
Vienna.
She has performed works dedicated to her by
various composers at the Holland Festival, Graz, Frankfurt,
Viitasaari, Finland, and at the Stockholm New Music Festival.
Following her debut at the West Cork Chamber
Music Festival in 2001, where she sang Messiaen's Harawi
accompanied by Joanna MacGregor - her performance was acclaimed
by the press as 'the best classical concert in Ireland in 2001'
- and she was immediately invited back for 2002 and 2003 editions
of the festival. Since then she regularly returned to Ireland,
performing, among others, music by Shostakovitch, Dowland and
Torstensson. In 2010 she will be performing works by Jörg
Widmann and other composers.
In 2004/05, two major works especially written
for Riedijk (In grosser Sehnsucht, for soprano and
piano trio by Klas Torstensson and Deep Blue Marine,
for two percussion, harp, actress and soprano by Klaas de Vries)
were premiered successfully in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. In
2010 she will appear again in a work composed especially for
her by René Samson: Splinters for soprano and
orchestra with Holland Symfonia.
Further highlights in the last seasons were
a series of Poulenc's La voix humaine with the Holland
Symfonia (staged by Monique Wagemakers), a tour of Scandinavia
with the Osiris Trio, concerts with Vienna's Altenberg Trio,
a solo opera production based on In grosser Sehnsucht with
Opera OT as part of the 2007 Rotterdam Opera Days Festival,
a new chamber opera by Rob Zuidam (Der Hund), the world
premiere and Dutch tour of Param Vir's new opera Black Feather
Rising (produced by the Octopus Foundation, October 2008)
and several performances of Elliott Carters masterpiece
A Mirror on Which To Dwell.
2009 included several appearances at the Toonfestival
Brabant, Torstensson's opera The Expedition in Stockholm, Sweden,
with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (April 2009), concerts
with the Orchestra of Padova (March 2009), Italy and the Emanon
Ensemble at the Flanders Festival, Mechelen. In the Delft Chamber
Music Festival she appeared with, amongst others, Elisabeth
Leonskaja, Liza Ferschtman, Dimitri Ferschtman and Enrico Pace
in works of Debussy, Shostakovich and Ravel.
Her versatility also encompasses early 20th century
music with works such as Schönberg's Das Buch
der hängenden Gärten and his Second String
Quartet; Berg's Seven Early Songs and Altenberg
Songs; and Webern's Songs including his Opus 13
and 8.
In opera, Charlotte has long distinguished herself as
Susanna, Despina, Euridice and Satirino. A more modern-age milestone
was her highly acclaimed appearance as Anna Charlier in Torstenssons
opera The Expedition. She premiered it in 1999 under
Peter Eötvös at the Holland Festival, followed by
a tour to Stockholm and the Ultima Festival in Oslo. In the
fall of 2009 she toured northern Italy with a very successful
staging of La voix humaine, directed by Leo Muscato,
under the baton of the young Italian chef Matteo Beltrami.
Charlotte Riedijk has been broadcast frequently on radio
and television throughout Europe. The following works
are obtainable on CD: Urban Solo/Urban Songs Torstensson;
La Disciplina Boogman; Seven Romances after poems
by Alexander Blok op 127 Shostakovich; The Expedition
Torstensson; and Cinq Chants d'Amour for soprano
and orchestra Arthur De Greef (KTC 4013).
Charlotte's latest CD, In grosser Sehnsucht, also written
by Klas Torstensson, was widely acclaimed and is available on
Cobra Records (0018). The release of her recording of Messiaen’s
Harawi is expected for June 2010.
January 2010
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