Lyre Inger Dam-Jensen

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Inger Dam-Jensen is a soprano. Her musical education is from the Royal Danish Academy of Music (graduated May 1990) and from the Danish Opera Academy with Kirsten Buhl Møller and Thomas Hensley as teachers.

She had her debut 1991 at the Jutland Opera singing Vilhelmine in "Ungdom og Galskab". In 1993 she started singing at the Royal Danish Theatre so she was already well known in Denmark when she won the prestigious "Singer of the World" competition 1993 in Cardiff.

Since then she has had an impressive international career. Just mentioning some 1998 activities she sings Despina in Cosi fan Tutte at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, she is Sifare in Mitridate at the Geneva Opera and she is Solomons queen in Handel's Solomon at a BBC prom koncert.

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Inger Dam-Jensen has done several concerts with the Danish Academic Choir, eg. Bach's St. John Passion 1991, St. Matthew Passion 1995, Haydn's Creation 1998 and for many years Handel's Messiah.

Listen to Inger Dam-Jensen and Akademisk Kor, singing Mit Staunen from Die Schöpfung by J. Haydn, recorded May 9, 1998. Get a free player from Real Systems.


Akademisk Orkester og Kor, e-mail aok@kor.dk
Created: 05-04-1997. Last Updated: 06-05-1999 by Werner Knudsen