Previous studies include a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Arts from the Royal Academy of Music, London.
Performance credits include Purcell The Fairy Queen (tenor soloist) at the RAM under conductor Laurence Cummings, Haydn “Harmoniemesse” (tenor soloist) at the Sherborne Abbey Festival, Peters/Vavrek The Wild Beast of the Bungalow (Grover) and Three Amputators (Eddie) at Oscarshall Palace at the Oslo Chamber Music Festival, Vaughan Williams Sir John in Love (Peter Simple/chorus) with British Youth Opera and Opera Holland Park and Puccini Gianni Schicchi (Gherardo) with The Athenaeum Opera.
Awards and competitions include Highly Commended in Joan Chissell/Rex Stephens Schumann Lieder Prize (2022), Second Prize in DNB Nasjonal Solistkonkuranse (2018) and finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Young Singers (2018).
Henrik is generously supported by the Tom Wilhelmsen’s Foundation and the Anders Sveaas ’Charitable Foundation.
Repertoire at the DNOA includes Susa Transformations (Singer #5), scenes from Strauß Die Fledermaus (Alfred), Monteverdi Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Telemaco) and Brahms “Liebeslieder Walzer”.
Our team
DNOA students have the opportunity to work with a wide range of well-established and respected specialists from the international opera scene. These include vocal coaches and teachers, directors, conductors and agents as well as people from the field of cultural management and performance psychology who lead masterclasses, seminars and workshops.
The closing date for applications to join the programme next year is
Friday 19. January 2025.