Siri Thornhill

Siri Karoline Thornhill is a Norwegian classical soprano for concert and opera, known for singing music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Career Thornhill studied singing first in her hometown Stavanger with Marit Storækre and continued with a scholarship from the Norwegian government at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Marius van Altena, Rita Dams and Diane Forlano. She appeared in Antonio Lotti's Requiem with the Thomas Hengelbrock's Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, and in Handel's Messiah with the Knabenchor Hannover conducted by Jörg Breiding. and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir in the project Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia. In 2009 she recorded the Bach solo cantatas for soprano with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra and the Cologne Bach Chorus, conducted by Helmut Müller-Brühl, reviewed by George Chien:"The present disc reveals an appealing vocal quality—clean, agile, superbly controlled, secure throughout the range—serving an appropriate understanding of the texts."

Thornhill has sung Baroque opera roles, such as Clomiri in Handel's Imeneo with the Capella Augustina conducted by Andreas Spering at the Halle Opera House, in Rameau's Dardanus in Freiburg, in carnival music from Venice and Florence with Hengelbrock at the Komische Oper Berlin, in Alessandro Stradella's San Giovanni Battista at the Quedlinburg Cathedral, and in Reinhard Keiser's Sieg der fruchtbaren Pomona. In August 2006 she made her debut as Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni with Kuijken at the Festival de l'Opera in Beaune and the Bruges Early Music Festival. She has also appeared in opera premieres of the 20th and 21st century such as Odysseus's Women of Louis Andriessen in Rotterdam and Amsterdam.