Bernarda Fink, Mezzo-Soprano
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
8:00 pm
Bernarda Fink, Argentine mezzo-soprano, was born in Buenos Aires to Slovenian parents. She studied at the "Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón" in Buenos Aires. Ms. Fink won First Prize at the Nuevas Voces Líricas competition in 1985 and moved to Europe. She lives in the southern Austrian province of Carinthia and is married to the Austrian Ambassador to Slovenia, Valentin Inzko.
Bernarda Fink has sung with leading orchestras including the Philharmonics of Vienna and London, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Radio-France Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, English Baroque Players, I Solisti Veneti, les Musiciens du Louvre, and Musica Antiqua Köln.
She has performed at the opera houses of Geneva, Prague, Montpellier, Salzburg, Barcelona, Innsbruck, Rennes. Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, she has sung at the Salzburg, Vienna, Prague, Tokyo, Montreux, BBC Proms festivals, as well as the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Vienna Konzerthaus and Sydney Opera House.