DAN KARLSTRÖM
The Steersman, tenor
 Dan Karlström, Åland's - the island province's - very own tenor, obtained a Master's degree in economics and business adminis-tration from Åbo Akademi University (Turku) in 1994. He studied singing with Ulla Ståhl-Grapes 1992-1993, with Anssi Hirvonen at the Sibelius Academy from 1994 and Professor Herbert Brauer from 1998.
In 1997 Dan Karlström came third in the national tenor competition in Somero and in 1999 was awarded the special prize in then national Lappeenranta Singing Competition. He spent the 1999-2000 season on a contract with the Schiller Theatre (Gelsenkirchen/Wuppertal) before transferring to the Darmstadt Staatstheater in autumn 2000. The following year he was awarded the Seppo Ruohonen Prize for the most distinctive talent in the Lohja Tenor Competition. During the 2002-2003 season he had a contract with the Leipzig Opera.
While at Darmstadt and the Schiller Theatre Dan Karlström was assigned solo parts in such works as Verdi's Macbeth, Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, Bizet's Carmen, Richard Strauss's Salome and Der Rosenkavalier, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. At the Savonlinna Opera Festival he has been heard in Gounod's Faust and in the quadruple tenor role in Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann. He has had parts at the Finnish National Opera in Sondheim's Sweeny Todd and Ilkka Kuusisto's The Kiljunens' Kalevala. He has sung in Rossini's La Cenerentola, Mozart's The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro at the Sibelius Academy Opera, in the musical HYPE at the Svenska Teatern and the UIT revue Papparaizet Tulevat in Helsinki. After The Flying Dutchman in Turku he will be working in Leipzig and at the Finnish National Opera (Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail).
Karlström's repertoire also takes in oratorios by Bach, Mozart, Rossini, Saint-Saëns and others.
Dan Karlström has appeared twice as the soloist of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra.
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