Biography
Soile Isokoski is a Finnish lyric soprano. She is an opera singer as well as a concert and lied singer.
She graduated from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki (a cantor-organist diploma, a singing teacher's degree and a singing diploma) and made her concert debut there in 1986.
Isokoski won the Lappeenranta song competition in Finland (1987), the Elly Ameling Competition in the Netherlands (1988) and the Tokyo International Singing Competition (1990). In 1987 she won 2nd prize in the BBC Singer of the World competition in Cardiff.
In 1987 she was engaged as a soloist with the Finnish National Opera and stayed there until 1994. Her first appearance there was as Mimi in Puccini's La Bohème.
Since then, Soile Isokoski has sung at all the leading opera houses in Europe (e.g. the Vienna State Opera, Théâtre du Châtelet, Opéra Bastille, La Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper unter den Linden, Semperoper, Staatsoper Hamburg, the Cologne Opera).
In 2002 she made her début at the Metropolitan Opera as the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro in 2002. She has also appeared at many festivals such as Salzburg Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Chorégies d'Orange, Tanglewood Music Festival and Savonlinna Opera Festival.
Soile Isokoski's lied repertoire is extensive. She has given recitals with her regular accompanist Marita Viitasalo worldwide including New York, Washington, Vienna, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Geneva, Munich, Rome, Athens, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Tokyo.
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