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 Competi tion 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, Tomi has performed as a soloist in several oratorios and passions and also in lied reci tals across Finland. In the summer of 2017, he per formed Franz Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with great success in collaboration with baritone Jorma Hynninen, emeritus professor of the Sibelius Aca demy. In addition to his singing career, Tomi holds a Bachelor of Church Music and a Licentiate of Medi cine, both from University of Oulu.
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