Tomi Punkeri Voice 2018

Photo : Miia Sinikumpu

Finland

1991-02-16

VOICE 2018 Edition – ART SONG DIVISION

Voice 2018

Baritone

Biography 2018: Finnish baritone Tomi Punkeri is currently studying singing at Oulu University of Applied Sciences under the guidance of his teacher Markku Liukkonen. He was awarded a special prize at the Lappeenranta National Singing Competition in 2016. In 2015, he won Second Prize in the Helsinki Lied Competition and reached the finals of the Timo Mustakallio Singing Competition of the Savonlinna Opera Festival.

Tomi made his opera debut at the Oulu City Theatre in the role of Vanhala in Tauno Pylkkänen’s Unknown Soldier in 2014. His first main role was in Jukka Linkola’s Abraham’s Feast opera in Oulu in 2017. In addition to opera, he has performed as a soloist in several oratorios and passions and also in lied recitals across Finland. In the summer of 2017, he performed Franz Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin with great success in collaboration with baritone Jorma Hynninen, emeritus professor of the Sibelius Academy. In addition to his singing career, Tomi holds a Bachelor of Church Music and a Licentiate of Medicine, both from University of Oulu.

Tomi Punkeri is generously sponsored by Fondation Libermont.

ART SONG

FIRST ROUND

Hugo Wolf
Der Tambour (Mörike-Lieder)

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Youth and Love (Songs of Travel)

Franz Schubert
Normans Gesang D. 846

Gabriel Fauré
Les Berceaux op. 23 n° 1

Richard Strauss
Nichts (Acht Gedichte aus Letzte Blätter op. 10)

SEMIFINAL

Maurice Ravel
Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Chanson romanesque
Chanson épique
Chanson à boire

Einojuhani Rautavaara
Sydämeni laulu

Johannes Brahms
Wie bist du, meine Königin op. 32 n° 9