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Channa Malkin

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Soprano Channa Malkin is known for her compelling musical personality and unbridled creativity. She was recently praised by Opera Today for “her pure and smooth voice, but full of feeling.” She excels in a broad repertoire, from Italian baroque opera to Sephardic chamber music. 
A recent nominee of the Grachtenfestivalprijs 2020, she debuted at the age of 16 as Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro) at Dutch National Opera. In 2021, her second solo album called This is not a lullaby was released by the high-end audio label TRPTK, including songs by Weinberg, Tavener as well as Russian songs by her father, Josef Malkin. 

This season, Channa performed the role of Second Niece (Peter Grimes) in a spectacular seaside production for Wadopera, led by Arnaud Oosterbaan and Paul Carr. She also made her Spanish recital debut at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid, followed by a recital at the Philharmonie Haarlem. 

Channa has demonstrated her unbridled creativity and entrepreneurship with the creation of her own multimedia opera pastiche Handel goes Tinder, together with violinist Anastasia Kozlova and writer/director Michael Diederich. Channa has performed this production 33 times for sold-out venues and festivals in the Netherlands. In 2022, Handel goes Tinder will play at the Handelfestpiele in Göttingen.   

She creates profound bonds with her audiences by presenting musical programmes combined wth personal storytelling. Her song programme This is not a lullaby explores aspects of motherhood and her Jewish-Eastern European cultural heritage through song and poetry. The album was particularly well received by the press, with Opernglas writing “Following this wonderful young singer through the diverse emotional moods is an experience of a very special kind." And Volkskrant: “Listening to Channa Malkin's clear-flowing voice is a real pleasure, but her new album, dedicated to her little son, is much more than an aesthetic experience”.

Recent highlights include the one-woman opera Non muore mai at the Amsterdam Grachtenfestival 2021, where she was reinvited after various song recitals in 2020. Handel goes Tinder keeps playing for sold-out halls and open-air venues. She recently jumped in at a one day’s notice for Holland Baroque and Alexander Weimann in Handel’s Dixit Dominus and the world premiere of Hayes’ The Fall of Jericho. Other past highlights were her performances of the Boy Solo in Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the baton of Mariss Jansons,  and the world premieres of Yizkor and Black Flowers, a cantata and song cycle for soprano, orchestra and chorus by Josef Malkin, in New York City, Salt Lake City, Sofia (Bulgaria), and with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam. She sang the soprano solos in Bach’s St. Matthew and St. John Passion and B Minor Mass with the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra and various orchestras within the Netherlands. Channa regularly works as a soloist with baroque ensemble La Sfera Armoniosa led by theorbist Mike Fentross, with whom she recently performed Couperin’s Leçons de Ténèbres. As part of the Dutch National Opera’s Young Artist Programme, Channa covered the role of Dalinda in Ariodante. 

Channa’s performed opera roles include Despina (Così fan tutte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Charite (Cadmus et Hermione), Eve (In the beginning, a world premiere by Carlijn Metselaar), and all female roles in a staged production of Grieg’s Peer Gynt at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. As a Young Artist at the Rotterdam Opera Days she debuted Poppea (L’incoronazione di Poppea), which became one of her dream roles.

Channa was born in Amsterdam into a family of classical musicians. She studied at the Utrecht Conservatoire with Charlotte Margiono, while simultaneously performing as a soloist in the Netherlands and abroad. After graduating with honours from the conservatoire, Channa went on to study with Rosemary Joshua, with whom she discovered her love for early music. She continues working with her vocal coaches Manuela Ochakovski and Roberta Alexander on new repertoire.

English

Neghittosi or voi che fate - Ariodante (HWV 33), Georg Friedrich Händel 

Channa Malkin, soprano

Postscript Ensemble:
Artem Belogurov, harpsichord
Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde, cello
Tomoe Badiarova, violin

Recorded at Royal Concertgebouw, Amsterdam on January 17, 2022

Andrea Friggi, audio & video
Mateusz Pusiewicz, camera assistant

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Neghittosi or voi che fate

Public

The Marriage of Figaro

Susanna

Ariodante

Dalinda

Orlando

Dorinda

Idomeneo

Ilia

The Knight of the Rose

Sophie

Barbarina

Peter Grimes

Niece II

Così fan tutte

Despina

Peer Gynt, op. 23

Solveig

Magnificat in D Major BWV 243

Sopran

St. Matthew Passion

Chichester Psalms

Boy Solo

Davide penitente

Soprano I

Dixit Dominus, HWV 232

The Fall of Jericho

Don Giovanni

Zerlina

The Coronation of Poppea (reduction)

Poppea

Materna Requiem

The Magic Flute

Papagena

Händel goes Tinder

The Barber of Seville

Soloist

Romeo and Juliet

The Bat

Mass in B minor, BWV 232

Sopran I

Hor che tempo di dormire

Voice

Five Russian Songs

The Child Lived

Wenn ich das Kind in den Schlaf wiege, op.110

Si dolce é’l tormento

Hor che Apollo, Op. 8 No. 3

Quel sguardo sdegnosetto, SV 247

Cantate, ariette, e duetti, Op.2

Amanti, io vi so dire

Chant

In Memory of the Sun

The Last Toast

Achmatovoj

Akhmatova Songs

The Coronation of Poppea

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