Kristin Mulders is a versatile singer who uses her lyric coloratura mezzo-soprano voice to sing a wide repertoire from the Renaissance and Baroque periods to neoclassical and modern cabaret music. She became known as a soloist with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Stavanger Choir.
Mulders has sung with many orchestras, including the Stavanger Philharmonic Orchestra and Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, the Ars Nova Copenhagen, the Savannah Choral Society and Savannah Symphony Orchestra, the Forsvarets Musikkorps Vestlandet, the Collegium Musicum Choir and the Voci Nobili Orchestra.
She works regularly with the Bergen Vocal Ensemble/KorVest, the New Opera in Bergen and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and has appeared in opera productions such as Don Giovanni, Tosca, Carmen, Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) and Yevgueni Oneguin (Eugene Onegin).
She has performed in various concerts and recordings in New York, one of these under the direction of New York pianist and composer Mika Pohjola, as well as for Norway’s TV2 and NRK TV broadcasting companies and various radio stations. She also sang on the latest CD of the Voci Nobili women’s choir, directed by Maria Gamborg Helbekkmo, a choir ranked by Musica Mundi as the world’s top female choir in 2007.
Mulders received particular critical acclaim in 2007 after two tours in the United States. Her interpretation of songs by Mahler and Grieg with pianist Knut Christian Jansson was also warmly received by American audiences. For a number of years now she has performed in productions with several Baroque ensembles and gives solo recitals with various pianists and chamber ensembles.