Hanna Kronqvist, soprano

Hanna Kronqvist began her vocal studies at the Pirkanmaa Music Institute in 1992. Since 1996 she has studied opera singing at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki with Anita Välkki.

In 2002 she was awarded second prize at the Timo Mustakallio singing competition. In the same year Kronqvist also featured as a finalist in the National Lappeenranta Singing Competition. In Summer 2005 she will perform as a competitor in the Salmela Arts Centre’s Merikanto competition. In Autumn 2005 she will be heard as Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Fiagaro in Pori.

Her opera roles include Kaisa in Aarre Merikanto’s Juha (Savonlinna Opera Festival), Pamina in Mozart’s Magic Flute (Pori Opera), Vitellia in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito (Sibelius Academy), Hyacinthus in Apollo et Hyacinthus (Sibelius Academy) and Rosalinde in Johann Strauss Jr.’s Die Fledermaus (The Bat) (Sibelius Academy). She has also appeared in musical roles in Tampere Theatre’s Evita and Carmen Negra and in Turku City Theatre’s Sweet Charity.

She has also made appearances in recitals in Riga including a performance at the Finnish Independence Day Reception held at the Finnish Embassy in 2001. She also completed a French tour as a pianist with Ilmo Ranta (Paris, Amiens, Lille).

Hanna Kronqvist has appeared as a concert soloist with several Finnish orchestras. Her concert repertoire includes solo parts in Handel’s Messiah, J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Christmas Oratorio, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Chorale Fantasy op. 80, the three-voice Mass of César Franck and the Eastern cantata Triduum Paschale by J. Kostiainen and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.

FORTHCOMING PERFORMANCES:

Pori Opera, Finland: Madetoja, "Pohjalaisia", Liisa

Fri 30 November 2007 at 7:00pm, Pori Sinfonietta, Mozart, The Grand Mass in C Minor, Pori Organ Festival