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Sofia Flodin is a Swedish singer, who graduated from the Royal Academy Opera Course in London in the summer of 2003. She received her postgraduate Diploma of the Royal Academy of Music with distinction and a DipRAM. Sofia lives and works as a freelance opera and concert singer in and around Stockholm, Sweden. While at the RAM Sofia won the Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize for her Brahms interpretations, Second Prize in the Ludmila Andrew Russian Song Competition, was Very Highly Commended in the Isabel Jay Opera Prize, and received the Benjamin Dale and Leverhulme Awards. She was also a Finalist in the National Mozart Competition 2002 in Liverpool and won Fourth Prize and the David Kelly Oratorio Prize. Sofia was furthermore awarded the prestigious Swedish Wagner Society Bayreuth Bursary 2003.

Romeo dying in the arms of his beloved Juliet in the Ice Globe Theatre 2005     Photo: Peter Grant. www.pgpix.com

In operas Sofia has performed Lapak /Dog in Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen (conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras and Alex Briger), Nerone in L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Laurence Cummings), Mistress Quickly in Falstaff (Iain Ledingham) and White Cat in Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (Dominick Wheeler), as well as Charlotte in Werther, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi and Gluck's Orfeo  in Opera Scenes. In 2004 she repeated the role of Mistress Quickly in a production of Verdi's Falstaff in the Ice Globe Theatre in Jukkasjärvi, north of the polar circle, to which she returned  in 2005 as Bellini's Romeo.

Sofia as Mistress Quickly in Falstaff 2004     Photo by Emelie Joenniemi

Sofia has also had the opportunity to perform many oratorios with choirs and orchestras in the UK, among them the Messiah, Elijah, Judas Maccabaeus and Elgar's Sea Pictures, the Kingdom and Coronation Ode and Verdi's Requiem in Penzance and Exeter.

Reviews of The Cunning Little Vixen:
" ...Sofia Flodin's funny and nicely sung Dog deserves singling out." (The Evening Standard March 27 2003)
"...I particularly liked the spotted dog of Sofia Flodin..." (Classical Source March 27 2003)
"...good voices, too, notably (...) Sofia Flodin as the dog..." (The Guardian March 29 2003)

Curriculum Vitae

 Education
 

2001-2003:	Royal Academy of Music Opera Course, London
1997-99:	Kulturama Opera Studio 67, 2-year course, Stockholm
1996-97:	Kulturama Conservatoire Course, Stockholm
1993-94:	Kulturama Opera Studio 67, 1-year preparatory course, Stockholm
1991--1996:	Stockholm University; English, Musicology and Theatre
1987-1990:	Stockholm Music College, A-levels in Science and Music

 
 

Professors	Vocal Coaches
Janet Price, from 2001,	Ingrid Surgenor, Audrey Hyland,
Barbro Ericson from 1993	Antony Saunders, from 2001,
	Oscar Figueroa from 1997

 Languages
 Swedish and English fluently and very good French. Good Italian and German. Can sing in Russian, Norwegian and Danish.

 Roles

 
 Roles in productions by Opera Studio 67 in Stockholm:

 Other productions:

Roles performed in opera scenes in Sweden:
Carmen, Cenerentola, Charlotte, Cherubino, Dalilah, Dorabella, Lucretia, Maddalena (Rigoletto), Miss Jessel, Mistress Quickly, Orfeo (Gluck), Orlofsky, Santuzza, Sesto, Suzuki
 

Oratorio:
Mendelssohn, Elijah wiht Penzance Choral Society, Cornwall (Timothy Hosken) in May 2008
Bach, St. Matthew Passion with Penzance Choral Society, Cornwall (Timothy Hosken) in May 2006
Mozart, Organsolo Mass, Missa brevis in C in Stora Sköndal's Church, Sweden (Mattias Ekström Koij) in April 2006
Schütz, St. Luke Passion, with Schola Sköndal (K-G Ehntorp) in the German Church and Stora Sköndal Church, April 2006
Händel, Messiah in Münster, Germany with Mosaïque, www.mosaique.org.uk (Hermann Korte) in November 2005
Mozart, Requiem in Edsbergskyrkan, Sollentuna, Sweden (Birgitta Höök Seufert) in November 2005
Verdi, Requiem in Exeter Cathedral, UK, with Ottery St. Mary Choral Society  (M. Matthews) in June 2005
Haydn, Nelson Mass and Elgar, Sea Pictures in  Penzance, Cornwall (T. Hosken) in May 2005
Handel, Messiah in Martinikirche, Münster, Germany, with Mosaïque Ensemble (Hermann Korte) in December 2004
Verdi Requiem in St. Mary's Parish Church, Penzance, Cornwall (Timothy Hosken) in May 2004
Elgar, Coronation Ode in Tewkesbury Abbey (Ian Fox) in May 2003
 Charpentier Le Reniement de Saint Pierre in Stora Sköndal’s Church, Sweden (Mattias Ekström Koij)  in April 2003
 Mendelssohn Elijah with Burgess Hill Choral Society (Michael Stefan Wood)   April 2003
 Haydn Nelson Mass with Rugby Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra (Peter Crook) March 2003
 Handel Messiah in Worth Abbey (Michael Oakley)    March 2003
 Handel Messiah in Uxbridge, Shonan City choir (Matsui Masuyuki)  Feb 2003
 Handel Judas Maccabaeus, Amersham & Chesham Bois Choral Societies (Ian Hooker)  Dec 2002
 Mendelssohn Elijah, Guernsey Choral Society (Roger Brooks)   May 2002
 Elgar The Kingdom, Bristol University (Dr. Adrian Beaumont)   March 2002
 Mozart Missa Brevis in C and Inter natus mulierum in two Stockholm Churches (Jenny Johansson),  May and September 2000
 J. H. Roman The Swedish Mass in Gustaf Adolf’s Church (Anders Annerholm)  Nov 1999

Awards:
 Swedish Wagner Society Bayreuth Award 2003, Winner (included trip to Bayreuth in August 2003)
 Josephine Baker Trust; accepted on their Young Singer Scheme in November 2002
 Leverhulme Award, RAM 2002-2003 - Tuition fees
 Benjamin Dale Award, RAM 2001-2002 – Entrance Scholarship, full tuition fees
 Anna Whitlock Memorial Trust, Stockholm 2001
 St. Johannes Lodge, St. Erik, Stockholm 1999 - Music Award

Competitions:
 June 2003     Ludmila Andrew Russian Song Prize, RAM, Second Prize
 Feb 2003      Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize, RAM, Winner
 Nov 2002     National Mozart Competition, Liverpool, Finalist; Fourth Prize & winner of the David Kelly  Oratorio Prize
 June 2002     Isabel Jay Operatic Prize, RAM, Very Highly Commended
 Nov 2001     National Mozart Competition, Southport, Semi-Finalist

Masterclasses & Workshops
Audrey Hyland, Stockholm, July 2003, Robert Tear, RAM, June 2003, Robert Chevara 2003 and 2001, Petra Chibah, Anne Mason 2003,  William Relton, 2002, Noelle Barker, Ian Partridge, Kevin Smith, 2001, Dorothy Irving, Anita Soldh, Eva Haglund, Bengt-Åke Lundin, Alessandro Amoretti, 1999, Anna Simms, 1993 & 94

Upcoming Engagements
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater in Stora Sköndal's Church (Mattias Ekström Koij) on Good Friday 2009

Concerts

Concerts with the Novilla Ensemble at Skansen, Stockholm:
 Feb 2001:    ”Novilla macabre – Horror in Lieder and Opera”
 Jan 2001:    ”Songs by Nikolay Medtner”
 Apr 2000:    ”Cabaret songs by Britten, Weill and Schönberg”
 Mar 2000:    ”Ernst Krenek’s Reisebuch aus die Österreichischen Alpen”
 Feb 2000:    ”Songs to the poems of Pär Lagerkvist” (including first performance of Hemlängtan by Miklòs Maros)

 May 2000:    Lunchtime recital, Grieg’s Haugtussa at Postmuseum with Martin Virin
 Feb 2000:    Music by Eskil Hemberg in Gustav Vasa Church
 Nov 1999:    Opera Concert at Nybrokajen, Stockholm
 May 1999:   Tour to Budapest, Hungary with Kulturama, concerts at castle Gödöllö, Mathias & Calvinist churches and Swedish embassy, with first performance of Elisabethanische Lieder by Miklòs Maros
 Feb 1999:    Eskil Hemberg songs to Harry Martinsson’s poetry at Börssalen in Stockholm
 Summer 1998:    Tour with 7 chamber music concerts in churches in Swedish towns of Gävle,  Sundsvall, Örebro, Västerås and Stockholm,
 May 1998:     The part of Empress Elisabeth at first performance of Corfu Suite by Sten Hansson at Fylkingen, Stockholm (later broadcast by Swedish Radio P 2. Also performed on tour in Hungary)