Siri Thornhill

Siri Thornhill
Born	England
Other names	Siri Karoline Thornhill
Occupation	Classical soprano

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

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 took master-classes with Cristina Deutekom, Elly Ameling, Ton Koopman, Beata Heuer-Christen, Anna Reynolds and Jean Cox.

Thornhill has recorded Bach cantatas with Sigiswald Kuijken and La Petite Bande, the soloists also forming the choir. With them she performed among other cantatas Bach's cantata for the fourth Sunday after Trinity, Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 177, at the Rheingau Musik Festival in the Eibingen Abbey. 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. She recorded A German Requiem with Klaus Mertens and the choir of the Bremen Cathedral, conducted by Wolfgang Helbich. Further on she has recorded two world-premiere recordings with dramatic church-pieces of Simon Mayr (Naxos), such as "Jacob a Labano fugiens" and his reconstructed "Requiem".

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