Sine Bundgaard was born in Århus, Denmark, and studied at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music and the Opera Academy at the Royal Theatre, both in Copenhagen. She made her professional debut at the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen, as Barbarina in LE NOZZE DI FIGARO in 1999.

She was instantly invited to sing at some of the most prestigious operahouses in Europe, such as Opera National de Paris(Echo, covering Zerbinetta, 1st Blumenmädchen), The Royal Opera House of Copenhagen(Gilda, Corinna, Adele, Drusilla, Susanna), Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich (Fiakermilli, Echo, the Cheshire Cat) and Drottningholm Slottstheater (Amelite). She has also guested in the operahouses in Avignon (Zerbinetta), Marseille (Zerbinetta), Antwerpen (Zerbinetta), Nancy (Blondchen), Lausanne (Konstanze), Niîmes (Konstanze), Th. De Champs-Èlysèe (Konstanze),Opera Comique (Amélite), teatro delle muse di Ancona (Konstanze), Holland Festival in Amsterdam (Amelite), Innsbrucker Festwochen (Angelica) and the danish National Opera (Susanna and Adina).

Her repertoire has a wide range from the late romantics Mentioning Strauss and Berg till the early music stage Mozart, Bach, Haydn and Rameau not forgetting the bel canto: Verdi, Donizetti and Rossini to name a few.

Equally at home on the concert platform she sang Mahlers 4th symphony in Symphony Hall, Birmingham with the CBSO and Manfred Honeck, Carmina Burana in Sala Sao Paulo with OSESP and Antoni Wit, Brahms Requiem with Orchestre de Champs Elysée and Philippe Herreweghe, Carl Nielsens 3rd symphony with Stockholm Symhony orchestra and Tobias Ringborg, Lakmé in Queen Elizabeth Hall, London with COG, Songs by Strauss and Grieg in Dvorak Hall, Prague with the danish radio symphony orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard and Bergs Sieben frühe Lieder with Århus symphony orchestra and Giancarlo Andretta.

She sang with the conductors Rene Jacobs, Phillippe Herreweghe, Kent Nagano, Bertrand de Billy, James Conlon, Pinchas Steinberg, Michael Schønwandt, Enrique Mazzola, Giancarlo Andretta, Matthias Pintscher, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Christophe Rousset, Manfred honeck, Theodor Guschlbauer, Peter Schneider, Thomas Dausgaard, thomas Søndergaard, Antoni Wit, Rolf Gupta and Tobias Ringborg.

Besides her opera- and concertschedule Sine dedicates much time to recitals and Lieder. Containing songs by Strauss, Duparc, Berg and Poulenc, her EMI Debut CD, featuring the Danish Radio Sinfonietta and conductor Matthias Pintscher, was voted Vocal CD of the Year 2005 by the listeners of Danish Classical Radio and reciewed raving reviews internationally. As a recitalist she sang in Wigmore Hall, Tokyo, Lille and in numerous venues in her native Denmark. In 2004 she was elected Artist of the year for Danish National Radio. Sine received the prestigious Aksel Schiøtz prize, and in 2006 she recieved Elisabeth Dons prize and prins Henriks prize.

His earlier works were often provocative in their embrace of ‘ugliness' - loud and extreme instrumental sounds presented in only slightly varied repeated patterns confronted one with a raw musical surface. Yet in more recent works a gentler side has made its appearance - the lengthy and subtle Night Cycle with its moments almost Feldmanesque sensitivity was also one of the first of his works to expand its boundaries so as to fill an entire CD or concert performance. Along with this one nevertheless still finds a taste for the macabre and grotesque (E.A. Poe's Berenice formed the basis for a recent chamber ‘opera') or, as in a recent series of works, his own take on the cosmic. But the music, despite its fantasy or consciousness of ‘bigger pictures', never ‘spaces out' nor succumbs to grandiose schemes - it remains strongly rooted in an awareness of the musical resources used to construct it and the everyday reality the composer finds himself in.

The English tenor and conductor, Julian Podger, was educated in Kassel, Germany, where upon leaving school, he first established himself as a solo singer and conductor. In 1987 he took up a Choral Award to read Music at Trinity College, Cambridge. There, in addition to his many commitments as a solo singer, he was instrumental in the development of the early music scene, and concerts under his direction gained widespread recognition, aided by the use of historical performance practice. As part of his post-graduate studies he carried out research into the performance practice of Tudor church music, and he continues to direct performances of mainly "early" music with his vocal ensemble, Trinity Baroque, experimenting with both historical and new approaches.

As an oratorio soloist Julian Podger is now much in demand in England and abroad, particularly Germany. He has recorded the arias of J.S. Bach's St. John Passion (BWV 245) with The Scholars Baroque Ensemble and regularly performs as Evangelist, high points being a tour to the Canary Islands with J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244) and a performance of the same in St. John's, Smith Square, London. He has appeared regularly as a soloist for Paul McCreesh, Christopher Hogwood, John Eliot Gardiner and with Musica Antiqua Köln under Reinhard Goebel. He made a tout to Japan as Lucano in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea with The Purcell Quartet Opera Project and Bach Cantatas with Andrew Parrott and the Taverner Consort at Bachwoche Ansbach. He has appeared in many major concert venues, including the Royal Albert Hall and the Barbican, London, the Mozarteum, Salzburg and the Konzerthaus, Vienna. He regularly performs in music festivals across Europe, working with Philippe Herreweghe, Reinhard Goebel and Frieder Bernius.

Also an ensemble singer, Julian Podger is a member of one of the word's leading medieval ensembles, Gothic Voices, under Christopher Page, and a regular member of The Gabrieli Consort, London Baroque, The Tallis Scholars and The Harp Consort.

Besides running his own ensemble Trinity Baroque, Julian Podger was recently appointed Choral Conductor for Florilegium, and has since directed their choir and orchestra in various baroque works, including J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) in St. Pancras Church, London, and the Canary Islands in which he also sang the tenor solos, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the Sablé-sur-Sarthe festival and most recently Georg Frideric Handel's Israel in Egypt at the Noirlac Festival, France. Future conducting projects include further performances of Messiah, Georg Philipp Telemann's Brockes Passion (TWV 5:1) and Purcell's King Arthur.

Julian Podger's recent recordings include Bach Cantatas and Psalm settings by Lili Boulanger, both with John Eliot Gardiner. He and has recently been invited to sing for Andrew Parrott in a forthcoming recording.