Katariina Järvinen

Finnish soprano; she studied piano at the Helsinki Conservatory and church music with a major in voice under Anita Välkki at the Sibelius Academy. In 1997 she obtained a Master of Music and began voice studies with Claudia Rüggeberg at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen, which she completed with the highest artistic degree; during her studies she sang in the opera chorus of the Aalto-Theater Essen. In 2002 she sang Bianka in Anna Ikramova’s “Der schlafende Reiter” at the 6-Tage-Oper festival at tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf. Solo albums were released in 2008 and 2009, among them “Muistoja” (2009) with sacred songs; in 2011 she was cantor in Vaasa and music critic for the newspaper Pohjalainen. On the album Anna Ikramova: Der schlafende Reiter DVD (2000) she sings the leading role.