Soprano Dorothee Mields has emerged as a leading figure in the performance of both Baroque and contemporary music. She was praised by Forbes as "unflappable at any tempo."
Mields was born in Gelsenkirchen, in the industrial Ruhr valley, on April 15, 1971. Her training was German: at the University of Bremen with Harry van der Kamp and later independently in Stuttgart, where her teacher was Julia Hamari, and she continued to study with Richetta Manager during her active career. In the early 2000s, her performing and recording career began to develop rapidly. She has been espec...