Dorothee Mields

Dorothee Mields (born 15 April 1971) is a German soprano concert singer of Baroque and contemporary music. She performed in world premieres including Johannes Maria Staud's opera Berenice at the Munich Biennale, Beat Furrer's Invocation III conducted by the composer, Gérard Grisey's final work Quatre Chants pour franchir le seuil, and the Requiem composition Schwarz vor Augen und es ward Licht by Harald Weiss.

Mields was born in Gelsenkirchen. She studied at the University of the Arts Bremen with Elke Holzmann, Harry van der Kamp and Gabriele Schreckenbach. After graduation she continued studying in Stuttgart with Julia Hamari.

With the Collegium Vocale Gent and Philippe Herreweghe she recorded several Bach cantatas, his Magnificat in E-flat major, BWV 243a, Easter Oratorio and Ascension Oratorio. In 2001 she recorded Joseph Schuster's opera Demofoonte on a libretto of Metastasio with La Ciaccona, conducted by Ludger Rémy.
In 2002 she recorded several cantatas for Pentecost by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, a prolific contemporary of Bach, conducted by Rémy. The soloists, including Jan Kobow, also formed the choir. In January 2003 she sang Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine on a tour with the Collegium Vocale Gent. In 2006 she performed in Bach's St John Passion with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra in Canada. She sang the soprano part in the recording of Bach's Mass in B minor with Jos van Veldhoven.