Carine Tinney

The Scottish-Maltese soprano Carine Tinney is especially acclaimed for her interpretations of Baroque music. She has appeared as a soloist at venues including the Berlin Philharmonie, the Handel Festival in Halle and La Monnaie in Brussels, and with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. She has collaborated with renowned conductors such as John Butt, Jonathan Cohen, Emmanuelle Haïm, Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Helmuth Rilling.

In the 2024/25 season she made her debut at the Bavarian State Opera singing A Voice from Heaven in Verdi’s Don Carlo, performed with the Bach Collegium Japan at the Chofu International Music Festival, Bach’s St Matthew Passion on tour with the Netherlands Bach Society under Hans-Christoph Rademann — and performs with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Vox Luminis at the Salzburg Festival.

Her operatic highlights include Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Landestheater Detmold, the title role in Massenet’s Cendrillon, and Purcell’s The Indian Queen under Emmanuelle Haïm at the Opéra de Lille.

In the USA Carine Tinney has appeared as a soloist at the Berkeley Festival in California, sung Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Quad City Symphony Orchestra under Mark Russell Smith, and performed Handel’s Messiah with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra under Jeannette Sorrell.

Since 2019 she has been a member of the Sollazzo Ensemble, which specializes in music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and with which she regularly appears throughout Europe and in the USA and Asia, and on CD recordings. Since 2023 she has also worked regularly with the Netherlands Bach Society.

Carine Tinney received her Bachelor’s degree from Edinburgh Napier University and continued her studies at the University of Music in Detmold, where she trained with Gerhild Romberger and Manuel Lange and received Master’s degrees in Lieder singing and opera. She received multiple scholarships and awards from the International Art Song Competition of the Hugo Wolf Academy in Stuttgart, was awarded the Salvat Beca Bach Scholarship in Barcelona in 2017 and in 2021 was artist in residence at the cultural institution zamus: the Cologne Society for Early Music’s centre for early music.