Benedikt Kristjánsson (born 1987) is an Icelandic operatic and concert tenor who is based in Germany and has appeared internationally. He focuses on Baroque music, especially by Johann Sebastian Bach, but has also performed and recorded Romantic lieder and contemporary music. He has performed Bach's St John Passion in an arrangement for one singer, keyboard and percussion, notably in a live broadcast from Bach's resting place at the Thomaskirche on Good Friday 2020. Benedikt Kristjánsson was born in Húsavík. He studied first with his mother at the Reykjavik Academy of Singing and Vocal Arts. In 2007, he graduated from the Reykjavík Conservatory of Music. He continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin with Scot Weir. He took masterclasses with Elly Ameling, Robert Holl, Christa Ludwig, Thomas Quasthoff, Andreas Schmidt and Peter Schreier, and with pianist Helmut Deutsch. He won the first prize at the International Bach Vocal Competition in Greifswald in 2011. In 2012, he was awarded the audience prize of the International Bach Competition. More information...
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