Elly Ameling is beloved and admired throughout the world for her splendid and expressive voice and her compelling artistry. Elly Ameling's 1995 farewell tour marked a milestone in a remarkable artistic career. Beginning with her professional debut as a concert singer in Rotterdam in 1953, she performed for more than 40 years in virtually every major cultural center in the world, from Tasmania to Iceland, from Nairobi on the Equator to Finland in the Arctic Circle. Her annual tours and frequent appearances with the leading international orchestras have established her as one of the greatest singers of our age. She has sung with such conductors as Ernst Ansermet, Carlo Maria Giulini, Wolfgang Sawallisch, André Previn, Seiji Ozawa, Edo de Waart, Raymond Leppard, and Robert Shaw, as well as many others.

She has sung at the world's important music festivals, including Caramoor, Edinburgh, Aix-en-Provence, Sofia, and Bergen, among others, and at Tanglewood, where her recital was the festival's first chamber music concert ever to be recorded on compact disc.

Elly Ameling's repertoire encompasses a great variety of styles and musical spheres. She has sung in opera, notably Mozart, and has made numerous television and radio appearances. In her song recitals she has a personal preference for the German lied and the French mélodie, but is at home in all forms of song, including favorites from the world's great music halls.

This dedication to a highly individual art form has resulted in the production of some 150 LPs, compact discs, and cassettes. Few artists have recorded so extensively, thereby providing future generations with an opportunity to hear virtually her entire repertoire. She has recorded virtually all of her repertoire on Hyperion, Philips, Phonogram, CBS, Etcetera, EMI, Telarc, Harmonia Mundi Germany, Erato, DGG, Nonesuch, Decca, and Argo. Her first recording, with Jörg Demus, has recently been reissued by Harmonia Mundi. Her contributions to the EMI recordings of the complete songs of Fauré, Debussy, and Poulenc and the recording of Frank Martin's oratorio Le Mystére de la Nativité on the Swiss label Cascavelle can be heard on recent reissues on compact disc.

Madame Ameling is in great demand throughout the world for her masterclasses for singers and their accompanists, during which they benefit from her insight and knowledge. Recently, she has begun to accept carefully selected post-graduate students who need only a few finishing touches before embarking on a performing career.

Elly Ameling has been awarded four honorary degrees. Born in the Netherlands and still living there, she was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen for services to music.

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