Press | Camilla Hoitenga

PRESs:

QUOTEs:

… the most exciting program of new music this listener has heard so far this year… Tim Page in the New York Times

… an eccentric genius on her instrument… General-Anzeiger Bonn

…playing that let one forget the time…. The Flute, Japan

Tout ce périple musical servi par la virtuosité, le charme, la seduction instrumentale de … Camilla Hoitenga. La Gazette Provencale

…a lively and alluring soloist… The Independent

A shimmering aura enveloped the melodies, gently vibrating and devotedly celebrated by Hoitenga, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

….transported her audience to another world.  The Flute, Japan

…a captivating soloist, meltingly tender in the opening slow music and coquettishly lithe in the fast music of the second movement. She flung off the works trappings of virtuosity with ease… Daily Telegraph

…charismatic and exciting playing…all flautists should hear Hoitenga play. Pan

…virtuosic with compelling intensity and such vitality…. Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten

Camilla Hoitenga is more than a good instrumentalist: she lives this music. She twirls and sings, she hisses and purrs. Hamburger Morgenpost

… a magic flutist…. Südkurier

CD CRITIQUES:

**KAIJA SAARIAHO: LET THE WIND SPEAK, 2015**

Music : Kaija Saariaho

Camilla Hoitenga, flute • Anssi Karttunen, cello • Daniel Belcher, baritone • Héloise Dautry, harp • Da Camera of Houston

Ondine (ODE1276-2)

Camilla Hoitenga’s playing is often astonishing, not least in the way she melds her human voice with her instrument’s. (CD-Kritik, L’aile du songe),
Gramophone Magazine, December 2015
“Let the Wind Speak” is as much an exploration of Kaija Saariaho’s flute writing as her long-time collaboration with soloist Camilla Hoitenga, who plays everything from piccolo to bass flute, vocalizing and executing multiphonics with organic ease.
WQXR- FM, January 2016
Throughout the CD there is a truly astonishingly display of virtuosity especially in the way Hoitenga melds the voice to the instrument.
Music Web – International, 2016
…Hoitenga executes these effects with an agile virtuosity that sacrifices nothing of the luxurious tone of the instrument.
Music & Literature, March 2016

L’AILE DU SONGE, 2002

Music : Kaija Saariaho – Poems : Saint-John Perse

Flute Concerto “L’Aile du songe” • Flute solo “Laconisme de l’aile”

Camilla Hoitenga, flute • Amin Maalouf, reciter

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra • cond. Jukka-Pekka Saraste

(Kaija Saariaho & Jean-Baptiste Barrière, electronics)

Naïve Montaigne MO 782154 | Amazon

…a reborn Debussian refinement and languor with an occasional steely glint – a blend flautist Camilla Hoitenga achieves very naturally in her polished but also very vital performances (5-Stern CD-Kritik, L’aile du songe),
BBC Magazine, December 2002
…a phenomal soloist…her spectrum of color ranges from full flute sound to modulating breath noises that refer to the aesthetic of the Japanese bamboo flute.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 5.3.03
The performance is simply breathtaking. (CD-Kritik, L’aile du songe),
Fanfare, May/June 2003
The “pièce de résistance”is without a doubt L’aile du songe…enormously difficult for the soloist, but well-mastered by Camilla Hoitenga. One admires the long breath and the intimate understanding that she brings to this work which is dedicated to her. (5-Stern Kritik der Saariaho CD L’aile du songe)
La Scena Musicale, Vol. 8. Nr. 6, 2003

PRIVATE GARDENS, 1997

Kaija Saariaho
“NoaNoa” for flute and electronics
Ondine (ODE 906-2)

Camilla Hoitenga achieves a delightfully fragrant harmony between her instrument and the electronics.
BBC Magazine, Oktober 2001
…”Noa Noa”, porté par la flute virtuose et sensible de Camilla Hoitenga…
Diapason, Oktober 2001
The interpretations of the soprano Dawn Upshaw, the flutist Camilla Hoitenga, the cellist Anssi Karttunen and the percussionist Florent Jodelet are exemplary.
Phono-Spektrum, 4.3.1998