Kajsa Dahlbäck

The Finnish soprano, DMus Kajsa Dahlbäck studied church music at the Sibelius Academy. She then continued with a master's degree from the Opera Academy of Gothenburg University. In 2020 she completed her doctoral exam (DMus) at the artistic program of the Sibelius Academy. Dahlbäck is an experienced interpreter of early, classical and contemporary music. She has performed as a soloist with many orchestras, among them with Tapiola Sinfonietta, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra and the Finnish Baroque Orchestra, and at the Bolzano Festival (Italy), Musica Antiqua (Brazil), Brezice Festival (Slovenia), Kirkko Soikoon! festival, Helsinki Festival and Vantaa Baroque festival. She has an extensive repertoire ranging from works by Monteverdi, Grandi, Bach and Handel to contemporary composers such as Kimmo Hakola and Kaija Saariaho. She has premiered many works, both forgotten pieces from the 17th century and contemporary ones. Her debut at the Finnish National Opera was in 2015 as Drusilla and Amor (voice) in Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea. Other operatic work has included e.g. Silvia in Haydn's L'isola disabitata, Morgana in Handel's Alcina, Valencienne in Lehár's The Merry Widow and Damon in Handel’s Acis and Galatea. Ms Dahlbäck is artistic director of Vaasa Baroque, an early music festival in Vaasa, Finland that she founded in 2013. She also leads Earthly Angels early music ensemble, founded in 2016.