Canadian soprano Valdine Anderson is renowned throughout the world for the wide range of her operatic and concert repertoire from the baroque to the contemporary.

In 1995 Valdine Anderson made her European operatic debut in the role of the Maid in the extremely successful world première of Almeida Opera's production of Thomas Adès' opera Powder Her Face at the Cheltenham Festival, with subsequent performances at the Almeida Theatre. She recreated this role with great success for Opera de Nantes in their 2001/2 season. In October 2007 she performed the role at the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg as part of The Jewel of Russia Festival, and recently returned there for a concert performance of the piece in the White Nights Festival. 

In 1998 Miss Anderson made her English National Opera debut in Gavin Bryar's Dr Ox's Experiment and in 2000 she appeared in concert performances of Elliott Carter’s opera What Next? at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. In the 2004/5 season she appeared in a concert production of Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers (Elizabeth Zimmer) with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

Her regular concert appearances in the UK have included a performance of Boulez Pli selon pli with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival and Mahler Symphony No 4 with the same orchestra which has been released on CD by BBC Worldwide. She made her BBC Proms début with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Mark Elder in 1998 and subsequently returned to the BBC Proms for performances of Nielsen Symphony No 3 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Knussen Higglety Pigglety Pop! with the London Sinfonietta. She recently appeared with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Elsewhere Valdine Anderson has appeared with orchestras including the Montreal Symphony, New York Philharmonic, L'Orchestre National de France, L’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony and Orchestre de Paris. She has also appeared with the Nash Ensemble, Gavin Bryar's Ensemble, the Hilliard Ensemble, Asko Ensemble, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Modern and Ensemble Intercontemporain. She has collaborated with many composers including George Benjamin, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Pierre Boulez, Gavin Bryars, Gérard Grisey and has worked with conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Philippe Herreweghe, Edo de Waart and David Zinman. In celebration of Pierre Boulez’s 75^th birthday she toured Europe with the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Boulez himself in performances of Pli selon pli.

In November 2003 she toured the US performing the new work by Dutilleux 'Correspondences' with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle.  Other recent engagements have included a world premiere by Brett Dean with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, a recital for Calgary Opera, concert performances of Powder her Face with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican and with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie in Bremen, performances of Boulez Trois Improvisations sur Mallarmé with the Orchestre de Paris / Eschenbach, a concert performing Five

Eliot Landscapes by Ades at Carnegie Hall with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, a new commission by Hans Kox for the Netherlands Radio and her début recital at the Wigmore Hall. 

She has also appeared at many international festivals worldwide including Aspen, Holland and Edinburgh.  Future engagements include concerts with the Nash Ensemble.

In Canada she has appeared with Edmonton Opera, Manitoba Opera and Vancouver Opera where roles have included Blonde (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Micaela (Carmen) and Papagena (The Magic Flute).  Recent seasons have included Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) for Edmonton Opera, the title role in a new production of Floyd's Susannah for Calgary Opera and a concert performance of a new opera “The Scarlet Princess” for the Canadian Opera Company. 

Valdine Anderson’s many recordings include Maxwell-Davies' Job (Collins), Freedman's Spirit Song, Adès' Five Eliot Landscapes (EMI), Lutoslawski's Chantefleurs et Chantefables (BIS), Bryars' Adnan’s Songbook, Torke Book of Proverbs (Decca) and a CD of the BBC Proms performance of Szymanowski Songs of a Fairy Princess (BBC Music), Adès Powder Her Face (EMI) which was nominated for Grammy Award and, most recently, Carter What Next? (ECM).  

November 2008