Leif Aruhn-Solén, tenor

Leif Aruhn-Solén was born in 1973 in Stockholm, Sweden. He did undergraduate studies in vocal performance at the Royal University College of Music in Stockholm 1994-1998. In 2001, he earned the Artist diploma from Oberlin College, Ohio.

At home in both opera and oratorio, Mr. Aruhn-Solén has a particular interest in music from the early Baroque period through Mozart.Recent engagements have included Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie and the modern world premiere of Royer’s newly restored 1743 opera Le Pouvoir de l’Amour. In addition to baroque operas, he has sung the roles of Don Ramiro in Rossini’s La Cenerentola and Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. On the concert stage he has performed both as the evangelist and the tenor soloist in Bach’s St. Matthew and St. John Passions and Christmas Oratorio. Other often performed tenor solos have included Bach’s Mass in B minor, Handel’s Messiah and Mozart’s Requiem.

Mr. Aruhn-Solén has appeared with the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, Glimmerglass Opera in New York, Chicago Opera Theater and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. His orchestral engagements have taken him to several of the world's music centers to perform with such prestigeous orchestras as Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie, the Cleveland Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble.

Visit Leif Aruhn-Solén's website at www.aruhn-solen.com.