If The Owl Calls Again

Warner Classics is proud to present the new album by Christianne Stotijn, the Dutch mezzo-soprano and passionate interpreter of art songs.

Christianne Stotijn was born in Delft and studied violin and voice at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam of the Amsterdam School of the Arts. After her degree in violin, she continued her vocal studies with Udo Reinemann, Jard van Nes and Dame Janet Baker. She has won several major awards in recent years, including the prestigious ECHO Rising Stars Award in 2005/2006, the 2005 Borletti Buitoni Trust Award and the Dutch Music Prize in 2008. In addition, she was a BBC New Generation Artist in 2007.

Her new album 'If the Owl Calls Again' sees Christianne re-united with many of her regular musical collaborators: Joseph Breinl, Antoine Tamestit, her brother Rick Stotijn, Toon Fret, Olivier Boekhoorn and the Oxalys Ensemble.

She here presents 21 well-known and less familiar songs centred around the theme of 'nature and religion'. From works by Martin, Ravel and Mussorgsky, to a world premiere by Dutch composer Fant de Kanter, and featuring song texts in Hebrew, Armenian, Russian, French, English, German and Dutch, this promises to be a beautiful and highly diverse album.