Siri Karoline Thornhill is a Norwegian classical soprano for concert and opera, known for singing music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Thornhill studied singing first in her hometown Stavanger with Marit Storækre and continued with a scholarship from the Norwegian government at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Marius van Altena, Rita Dams and Diane Forlano.
[3] She appeared in Antonio Lotti's Requiem with the Thomas Hengelbrock's Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, and in Handel's Messiah with the Knabenchor Hannover conducted by Jörg Breiding.
[4] She took part in two world-premiere recordings with dramatic church music by Simon Mayr for Naxos, such as Jacob a Labano fugiens[2] and in 2013 his reconstructed Requiem.
"[7]Thornhill has sung Baroque opera roles, such as Clomiri in Handel's Imeneo with the Capella Augustina conducted by Andreas Spering at the Halle Opera House, in Rameau's Dardanus in Freiburg, in carnival music from Venice and Florence with Hengelbrock at the Komische Oper Berlin, in Alessandro Stradella's San Giovanni Battista at the Quedlinburg Cathedral, and in Reinhard Keiser's Sieg der fruchtbaren Pomona.