Caroline Tribe

Caroline Stam studied voice at the Sweelinck Conservatorium Amsterdam with Erna Spoorenberg and Margreet Honig. She obtained the Performing Musician diploma after graduating cum laude from her Teaching Musician studies. She was then coached by David Pittman-Jennings. In 1995, she won first prize for soprano at the Grimsby International Competition for Singers in Grimsby, UK, as well as first prize for the interpretation of the French song.

Caroline Stam has performed in the Netherlands, England, France, Spain, Denmark and Germany, at festivals such as Les Festivals du Trégor, La Folle Journée de Nantes, the Festival des Cathédrales de Picardie, the Dollard Festival and the Bremer Bachfest, under conductors such as Robert King, Ivan Fischer, Patrick Peire, sir David Willcocks, Charles de Wolff, Roy Goodman, Jan Willem de Vriend and Ton Koopman.

She collaborated solo on the CD recordings of Purcell's Fairy Queen and various Bach cantatas, including in the entire tenth instalment of the series complete recordings of the Bach cantatas conducted by Ton Koopman. A recording of Italian Baroque cantatas conducted by Patrick Peire and Bach's St John Passion with the Nederlandse Bachvereniging conducted by Jos van Veldhoven. She also soloed in Ton Koopman's reconstruction of Bach's Markus Passion as well as Buxtehudes Das Jüngste Gericht with Ton Koopman's Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir. Further recordings with Ensemble Amphion with Music from the time of Rembrandt and with Camerata Trajectina Bacchus, Ceres and Venus by Johan Schenck and Songs by Jacob Cats. In 2011, she sang the Dutch premiere of the Requiem By Iver Kleive.

Caroline Stam performs with the recorder ensemble Brisk and the Egidius Quartet. Since 1994, Caroline has regularly given song recitals for Friends of Song with Maarten Hillenius.