Johan is a Swedish London-based countertenor who is currently studying a Masters of Arts at Royal Academy of Music, where he is studying with Marcus Van den Akker and Joseph Middleton.

Johan is supported by the Josephine Baker Trust and is a soloist in RAM’s Resounding Shores series where he has worked with Eamonn Dougan, Liz Kenny and John Butt. He was a finalist and the winner of the Song prize in the highly prestigious Richard Lewis Award. With RAM’s Vocal Faculty opera scenes he has been singing as Idamante in Mozart’s Idomeneo, as Oberon in Britten’s A Midsummer nights dream, Arsamene in Serse and Refugee in Dove’s Flight. He has also been a part of Royal Academy Opera’s productions as a Flower girl in Le Nozze di Figaro and as an extra in the prologue of Ariadne auf Naxos. He has also been a soloist in the Academy Voices concert series and is a current member of the Academy Song Circle.

Before Johan moved to London he studied at Vadstena Song and Piano Acdemy, where he was taught by Anders Düring. In 2019 he won first prize in the OVIS voice competition. Throughout his studying years he has also been generously supported with several scholarships from Anders Sandrews Stiftelse, Thora Olssons Stiftelse, Andersson i Anderslöv Stiftelse, The Swedish House of Nobility and by Royal Academy of Music.

Johan’s interest for opera started when he was ten years old and did his first opera production in Mozart’s Der Zauberflöte as Knabe 1 at Opera Hedeland in Denmark. He then joined the Malmö Opera’s children’s choir where he participated in several productions as a child soloist in To see the world while the light lasts, Vi gör en opera and Trollguld. As well as a chorista in operas such as Carmen, Parsifal and Tusen och en natt.