TIINA PENTTINEN
Mary, mezzo-soprano
 Tiina Penttinen is one of Finland's brightest rising stars. After winning the national Lappeenranta Singing Competition in 2004, she was immediately invited to make her debut at the Finnish National Opera, as Annina in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. At Tampere she has sung Emilia in Verdi's Otello. While studying at the Sibelius Academy she appeared in works by Mozart (Sesto in La Clemenza di Tito and Zephyrus in Apollo et Hyacinthus), Tchaikovsky (Larina and Olga in Eugene Onegin), Menotti (Madame Flora in The Medium) and Charpentier (La Peinture in Les Arts Florissants). At this year's Savonlinna Opera Festival she was cast as the Merchant's Wife in Aulis Sallinen's The Horseman.
Having studied singing with Sirkka Haavisto at the Central Ostrobothnian Conservatoire, Tiina Penttinen has been a pupil of Marjut Hannula at the Sibelius Academy since 2000. Her teachers in Lied have been Udo Reinemann, Roger Vignoles, Gustav Djupsjöbacka, Ilmo Ranta and Ellen Nyberg. She has given numerous recitals with pianist Lotta Emanuelsson and together they were the best Finnish contestants, taking the third prize, in the Nordic Pentti Koskimies Lied Competition in 2003.
Tiina Penttinen has also featured as a soloist in the great sacred works by such composers as Bach, Handel, Charpentier, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms and Liszt. This year she made her debut at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival.
Tiina Penttinen appeared once as the soloist with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra.
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