Carolyn Sampson

Equally at home on the concert and opera stages, ‘master storyteller’ (Gramophone) soprano Carolyn Sampson has enjoyed notable success in the UK as well as throughout Europe and the US. In operatic roles she has performed at the English National Opera, Glyndebourne, Scottish Opera, Opéra national de Paris, Opéra de Lille, Opéra national de Montpellier and Opéra national du Rhin. For the Boston Early Music Festival she sang the title role in Lully’s Psyché, a recording of which was subsequently released and in 2008 was nominated for a Grammy. Carolyn’s concert engagements have included regular appearances at the BBC Proms and with all the major UK orchestras. In Europe she has performed with the Bergen Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Salzburg Mozarteum, Royal Concertgebouw and Vienna Symphony orchestras and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, among others. In the USA she has featured as soloist with the Boston, Cincinnati, Detroit and San Francisco symphony orchestras, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Minnesota Orchestra, with whom she recorded Mahler’s fourth and eighth symphonies under Osmo Vänskä. She is a regular guest at the Mostly Mozart Festival, and in 2013 made her Carnegie Hall recital debut to a sold-out audience in the Weill Recital Hall. A consummate recitalist, Carolyn appears regularly at the Wigmore Hall, where she was a ‘featured artist’ during the 2014/15 season. She has given recitals at the Oxford Lieder, Leeds Lieder, Saintes and Aldeburgh festivals, and at the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Oper Frankfurt, the Pierre Boulez Saal (Berlin) and the Vienna Konzerthaus.