EBBA LEJONCLOU
Mezzo-soprano


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ABOUT.
Lyric mezzo-soprano Ebba Lejonclou is educated at the Stockholm University of the Arts' Opera Vocal Performance programme, Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig and Vadstena Folkhögskola for voice and piano, majoring in interpretation of art song.
In the spring of of 2026, Ebba returns to Folkoperan in Stockholm to perform the role of Megacle in Vivaldi's L'Olimpiade. She sang Kutchtík in Dvorak's Rusalka at the Royal Swedish Opera during the fall of 2025, followed by the big Christmas tour Vår jul with over 50 concerts across Norway. Ebba has during and after her graduation in 2024 repeatedly appeared on opera stages like The Royal Swedish Opera, Folkoperan and The Vadstena Academy. She is also active within concert, recently as a soloist with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in the Stockholm Concert Hall as well as with The Norrköping Symphony Orchestra in The Louis De Geer Concert Hall. She has performed at several national and international chamber music festivals . In May, she appears as a soloist with the Östgöta Wind Symphony Orchestra in the Crusell Hall.
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Ebba has worked with conductors such as Alan Gilbert, Case Scaglione, Gabriella Teychenné, Henrik Schaefer, Cathrine Winnes, Andreas Hanson, Fredrik Burstedt, Constantin Trinks, Tobias Ringborg,
David Björkman, Staffan Mårtensson, Mats Janhagen, Oliver Weder, Matthias Foremny and Gotthold Schwarz. Her musical interest is all-encompassing and she has professional experience within the world of choir and ensemble singing. Since 2024, she is a member of The Royal Chapel Vocal Ensemble at The Royal Palace in Stockholm, and between 2017-2021 she was a first alto in the Leipzig-based vocal sextet Voicemade.
Ebba has been awarded numerous scholarships, including the Hillevi Martinpelto Scholarship, the Royal Swedish Opera and the Hans Björklund Foundation for "Young Talents within the World of Opera", the Kerstin Meyer & Björn Bixelius Scholarship, the Aurora Lillieros Scholarship, the G.T. Bäckman Scholarship, Östgöta Gille’s Music Scholarship, the Anders Sandrew Foundation Educational Scholarship, the Anna Whitlock Memorial Fund Scholarship, the Linköping Scholarship for Cultural Practitioners as well as the Jubelfonden Scholarship.