Jóhann Kristinsson

A singer who began his studies with Bergþór Pálsson at Söngskólinn í Reykjavík in 2009 and took a master's degree with distinction at the Hanns Eisler academy in Berlin in 2017, where he studied with Scot Weir. As a student he was coached by Thomas Quasthoff, Júlia Várady, Thomas Hampson, Graham Johnson, Deborah Polaski and Giacomo Aragall. He was a member of the international opera studio of the Hamburg State Opera until 2019 and has been a regular guest of the house since. In September 2019 he won the main prize at the Stella Maris competition and the jury prize of the Wiener Musikverein, and he has taken third prize and the audience prize at Das Lied in Heidelberg. He has sung under Herbert Blomstedt, Kent Nagano, Bertrand de Billy and Sir András Schiff, and with the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Bamberg Symphony, the Copenhagen Philharmonic and the Iceland Symphony. In 2025 he sang Brahms's German Requiem with the Hamburg Philharmonic in the Elbphilharmonie under Kent Nagano, and the recording of it came out on BIS the same year. He was named singer of the year at the Icelandic Music Awards in 2024. He began as a baritone and now sings tenor roles.