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Soprano Anne Cambier
practices the three major disciplines of song, opera and oratorio
and has already built up an impressive and varied career.
Anne Cambier chose to train in singing at the Royal Music Conservatory
of Ghent (Belgium) with Zeger Vandersteene and Paule Daloze. She further
developed her abilities with Noëlle Barker at the Guildhall School
of Music and Drama in London where, in 1992, she was awarded her Post-Diploma
in Vocal Training and her Certificate in Techniques of Teaching. At
the same time she followed master classes with Suzanne Danco, Hugues
Quenod, Thomas Hampson, Geoffrey Parsons, Thomas Hemsley, Graham Johnson,
Paul Hamburger and others. During her stay in England, she already
performed a number of roles with various British opera companies and
in the same period participated in creative productions by Les Arts
Florissants, conducted by William Christie. In these early days she
acquired the skill to relate closely and intuitively to both large
and small audiences.
Back in Belgium, her career flourished thanks to the Queen Elisabeth
Competition in 1996. She was invited to perform with most of the Belgian
orchestras and worked with conductors such as C. Hogwood, A. Pappano,
R. Goebel, G. Llewellyn, P. Ellis, P. Goodwin, P. Peire, P. Dombrecht,
G. Octors and D. Brossé.
In 1997 Anne Cambier made her debut at the National Opera in Brussels.
This brought high critical acclaim and, as a result, the offer of
a variety of roles by La Monnaie: Parsifal (director: A. Pappano),
Orfeo (Trisha Brown/R. Jacobs) with performances at Aix-en-Provence,
London, Paris and New-York, Le Nozze di Figaro (A. Pappano),
La Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo with La Fenice conducted
by Jean Tubéry.
For the Flemish Opera she twice played the role of Rowan in Let's
make an Opera by B. Britten and she sang Karolka (Jenufa /
Janácek) directed by Robert Carsen, an opera revived in Japan
with Seiji Ozawa as conductor. With the Flemish Chamber Opera Company
"Transparant" she sang songs by Samuel Barber, performed
the title role of Mozart's Zaïde (performances at the Festivals
of Edinburgh and Covent Garden with The Academy of Ancient Music)
and achieved a huge success in the challenging role of Seleuce in
Haendel's Tolomeo (L. Hume/ P. Dombrecht). In 2002-2003 she
sang the role of Elisa in Mozart's Il Re Pastore (Belgium/Holland),
while last season, she played Papagena in Mozart's Magic Flute
at the Ruhr-Triennale with Marc Minkowski as conductor.
Her acclaimed recitals are staged with Belgian pianists such as Jan
Vermeulen, Jozef De Beenhouwer, Levente Kende and Jean-Claude Vanden
Eynden.
Anne Cambier performs regularly with Baroque orchestras such as La
Petite Bande, Il Fondamento, The Academy of Ancient Music, Musica
Antiqua Köln, Les Agrémens and more recently with "I
Justiniani", the Baroque ensemble she founded in 2002. Their
first CD "Songs by Henry Purcell", released in 2002, was
very well received both by the critics and the public.
This season, Anne Cambier will be back as Karolka in Janácek's
Jenufa in the opera houses of Antwerp and Ghent. Furthermore,
she has been invited to appear as "special guest" at the
Flanders Festival in Courtrai.
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