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ABOUT.

The lyric mezzo-soprano Ebba Lejonclou graduated from the Stockholm University of the Arts' Opera Vocal Performance programme in June 2024 as a student of the Swedish tenor Erik Årman. In 2021 she received a Bachelor’s degree in classical singing from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig and before that she studied two years at the Vadstena Folkhögskola for voice and piano, majoring in interpretation of art song.

In the fall of 2024, Ebba made her house debut at Folkoperan in Stockholm, in the role of Sigrid in the contemporary opera Herr Arnes Penningar with music by Peter Nordahl.

Upcoming engagements include i.a. the Vadstena Academy’s opera productions of Alessandro in Susa by L. Mancia and Den starkare by M. Hallin, as well as A. Dvořák’s Rusalka at the Royal Swedish Opera. In the spring, Ebba can also be heard as a soloist in concerts with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and at the chamber music festival Valdres Sommersymfoni.

Among recent engagements to be mentioned are Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly

at the Royal Swedish Opera, Anna Bjelke in the opera Gustaf Wasa by J. G. Naumann with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Woman 1 at the world premiere of Sven-David Sandström’s The Book of Life with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Dodo McNeill at the Scandinavian premiere of the critically acclaimed contemporary opera Breaking the Waves by M. Mazzoli at the Vadstena Academy and Zweite Dame in Theater Rudolstadt’s Die Zauberflöte


Further studied roles include Dido in Dido and Aeneas by H. Purcell, Orfeo inOrfeo ed Eurydice by C. W. Gluck, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, zweite Dame and dritte Dame in Die Zauberflöte as well as Sesto in La Clemenza di Tito by W. A. Mozart, Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi by V. Bellini, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier by R. Strauss, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel by E. Humperdinck and Suzuki in Madama Butterfly by G. Puccini.

Ebba's sacred repertoire includes the alto solo parts of A. Vivaldi’s Stabat mater, J. S. Bach’s St Matthew Passion and Christmas Oratorio, Dixit Dominus and Messiah by G. F. Händel, Stabat mater by G. B. Pergolesi as well as by J. Haydn, Great Mass in C minor and Requiem by W. A. Mozart, Elijah by F. Mendelssohn as well as C. Saint-Saëns' Christmas OratorioEbba's musical interest is all-encompassing and she has professional experience within the genres of musical, folk, jazz and soul, as well as in the world of choir and ensemble singing. Between 2017-2021, she was employed as a first alto in the Leipzig-based vocal sextet Voicemade.

Ebba has worked with conductors such as 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. She has received several scholarships, among them the Royal Swedish Opera and Hans Björklund Foundation's scholarship "for young talents within the world of opera", Kerstin Meyer and Björn Bixeliu’s scholarship, Östgöta Gille’s music scholarship, the Anders Sandrew Foundation's scholarship for education, the Anna Whitlock's Memorial Fund's scholarship for studies abroad, Linkoping's scholarship for cultural practitioners, G T Bäckman's scholarship, Jubelfonden's scholarship as well as Aurora Lillieros' scholarship for young opera singers.

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