BIOGRAPHY

This year, the talented young baritone Arvid Eriksson returns to Berwaldhallen and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, meets the award-winning Ensemble Correspondances for the first time, and makes his debut with Gulbenkian Orchestra and Ton Koopman.

Born in Uddevalla in 1998, Arvid Eriksson currently lives in Stockholm, where he graduated from The Royal College of Music in 2021. His teachers during the training have been, among others, Petteri Salomaa and Erik Årman. He also holds a degree in church music. He began his professional career at the age of sixteen, singing with the renowned ensemble Göteborg Baroque, of which he was also a member until 2022.

Arvid has focused on the performance of art song and concert, which he has developed with the guidance of artists such as Anne Sofie von Otter and Peter Mattei. In 2021, he made his debut in Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, performing Fauré’s Requiem with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir. Among the highlights of 2022 were performances of Handel's Messiah with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and a tour of Mahler's Rückert-Lieder in an arrangement for baritone and piano quartet.

Arvid’s extensive concert repertoire includes works by Bach such as the St John’s Passion, St Matthew Passion, Christmas Oratorio, B-minor Mass and several cantatas, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn's The Creation and Stabat Mater, Requiems by Brahms, Mozart, Fauré, Duruflé and others, as well as works by Beethoven, Britten, Monteverdi, Roman, Larsson and many more.

Arvid has performed a number of well-known song cycles, including Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Liederkreis op. 24, Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder, Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte and Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel. He also frequently performs lieder by Schubert, Strauss, Brahms, Ravel, Sibelius, and Finzi, among others. Closest to his heart, however, are the Swedish art songs, many of which he has performed, including songs by Stenhammar, Rangström, and Peterson-Berger.