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Tenor and conductor

Benedikt Kristjánsson

A tenor who specialises in baroque music. He took prizes at the international Bach singing competition in Greifswald in 2011 and at the Bach competition in Leipzig in 2012, and the OPUS Klassik award in 2019 for a version of Bach's St John Passion for tenor, harpsichord and percussion. He has sung at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, and has worked with the conductors Vladimir Jurowski, Philippe Herreweghe and Hans Christoph Rademann. He has conducted Bach's large choral works in Reykjavík, among them the Christmas Oratorio in 2024 and the St John Passion in 2026.

Benedikt Kristjánsson with long hair and a hand at his head, in a black coat.

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