Soprano Sonja DuToit Tengblad is a versatile performer, with credits spanning the Renaissance era through the latest music of the 21st century. Recent highlights include Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro as Susanna, Haydn's Die Shöpfung as Eva, and appearances as the soprano soloist for Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem with the National Lutheran Choir and members of the Minnesota Orchestra, Bach's B Minor Mass with Boston's Back Bay Chorale, and John Rutter’s Requiem at Carnegie Hall.
Soprano Sonja DuToit Tengblad is a versatile performer, with credits spanning the Renaissance era through the latest music of the 21st century. Recent highlights include Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro as Susanna, Haydn's Die Shöpfung as Eva, and appearances as the soprano soloist for Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem with the National Lutheran Choir and members of the Minnesota Orchestra, Bach's B Minor Mass with Boston's Back Bay Chorale, and John Rutter’s Requiem at Carnegie Hall.
A lover of new music, Ms. Tengblad premiered the role of Maria in Diego Luzuriaga's El Niño de los Andes with VocalEssence of Minnesota, and was the soprano soloist for the American premiere of Siegfried Matthus' Te Deum for 5 soloists, symphony orchestra, choir and boy's choir, and for the world premiere of Carol Barnett's The World Beloved, A Bluegrass Mass (available through Clarion recordings). Ms. Tengblad also appeared in a concert celebrating the 80th birthday of composer Dominic Argento where the Minnesota Star Tribune reported her to have given "the most affective performance of the evening". This November, she will sing a piece by NEC professor Kati Agócs with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.
An active ensemble singer, Ms. Tengblad performs with the 5-time Grammy-nominated ensemble Conspirare out of Austin, Texas; the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus; Vox Humana out of Nashville, Tennessee; Boston’s Lorelei Ensemble, and the Handel and Haydn Society Chorus. She will join the Handel and Haydn Society’s Vocal Outreach Quartet this fall as their new soprano.