ARTISTS
Gunnhild Tonder
Gunnhild was born in Norway in 1978 and began studying recorder and singing aged five. After continuing with piano and then harpsichord, she studied as soloist and accompanist at the Grieg Academy, Bergen and Sibelius Academy, Helsinki. She is currently studying harpsichord with Lars Ulrik Mortensen at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen.
She has played continuo with Malmö Baroque, Baroque Fever, Kantus København and Fuglsang Baroque. In Bergen she played in Dido and Aeneas at the city’s International Music Festival.
She is very active as a chamber musician, and collaborates regularly with Maria Kontra, and coaches a number of other singers at the Royal Danish Conservatory. She studied harpsichord for many years with Ketil Haugsand and has participated in masterclasses with Richard Egarr, Robert Levin, Richard Gwilt, Margaret Faultless, Paul Hillier and Wieland Kuijken. She has also had frequent lessons with Jesper B. Christensen in Basel. Gunnhild made her debut with the Britten-Pears
Baroque Orchestra in a program directed by Elizabeth Wallfisch and Alison McGillivray. She also worked with BPBO again in Aldeburgh, as a repetiteur and continuo player in the production of Purcell’s King Arthur, with Laurence Cummings and Michael Chance.
Gunnhild returned to the masterclass Musica Antiga Lisboa in Tomar, Portugal, as an accompanist and coach. She plays in the ensemble “Händel with Care”, with mezzo-soprano Maria Kontra, soprano Nina Bols Lundgren, baroque violinist Jesenka Balic Zunic, and baroque cellist Hanna Englund, with whom she frequently performs within Denmark. She collaborates with Norwegian soprano Ragnhild Eide Akslen in the duo ‘Donne Ridente’, and they perform frequently in Norway and Denmark.
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