Benedicte Christiansen
Benedicte Christiansen graduated as a singer from RDAM in 1995. She also holds a degree in Italian from the University of Copenhagen and in Classical Philology from Aarhus University.
She lived and worked for a number of years in Rome and Trieste, where she also studied the Italian repertoire under the late Prof. Marta Lantieri, former head of the Opern Studio at the Vienna State Opera.
Teaching
Since 1997, Benedicte has taught singers in Italian at RDAM and at the Opera Academy. She also holds writing courses for all Bachelor students.
Artistic practice
Benedicte has held courses in Italian for the Danish Radio Choir, the Royal Opera, the Danish National Opera, Nimbus Film and Østre Gasværk Theatre.
She also graduated as journalist from the Danish School of Media and Journalism, and has written for a number of media, especially on classical music and cultural policy.
In 2019 she was head of administration at the Danish National Opera, and from 2021 she will be head of Bornholm’s Cultural School.
http://www.benedictechristiansen.dk/
2018: Scholarship to the Danish Institute in Rome: Preliminary studies for a research project on ‘La pronunzia ecclesiastica’ – the pronunciation of Latin texts in the living ecclesiastical voice tradition in Italy.
- Opera Europa, Antwerp, 2019
- Speaker at RDAM’s musical pedagogical conference in January 2019 on the nationwide boost for school orchestras, OrkesterMester.
- Participant in and co-organiser of the conferences of the Nordic Union of Art and Music Schools in Oslo 2017, Finland 2016 and Aalborg 2015. <
- Nordic Children’s Culture Conference, Nuuk, 2014
In the period 2013-2018 she was head of the secretariat of the music schools’ trade association, where, amongst other things, she was initiator and project manager of OrkesterMester.
OrkesterMester a collaborative venture between the music schools, the Danish Head Teachers’ Association and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, with financial support from the Nordea Foundation, the participating municipalities and the Danish Ministry of Culture.
- Elected to the Study Board and the Academy Council of RDAM for a number of terms of office.
- From 2019, member of the sectoral board for managers in the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs.
- Feature articles in the newspaper Berlingske
- Articles in the magazine ‘Klassisk’
- Glæden ved et musisk samarbejde med skolen (The joy of musical collaboration with a school). Discussion piece in the newspaper Jyllands Posten.
- Man kan godt nøjes med en bøf (You can make do with a steak). Interview with star tenor Joseph Calleja
- Renæssancen lever i Urbino (The Renaissance lives in Urbino). On the Palazzo Ducale and Renaissance architecture
- Engelsk på engelsk på Covent Garden. (English in English at Covent Garden). Opera Director Kasper Holten on using English as a working language.