Petter Udland Johansen


was born in Oslo, where in 1996 he achieved his Masters degree in singing at the Norwegian College of Music. His tutors were Ingrid Bjoner and Svein Bjørkøy. In 2000, he passed with flying colours the post-graduate course at the Scola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel. Here his teacher was Richard Levitt. Additionally to his education, he trained with the tenor Hans-Peter Blochwitz.

Petter Udland Johansen is a singer and musician who works in huge musical surroundings. He is at home with pop and modern music, as well as with the old classical music.

Petter Udland Johansen has worked as a soloist in several opera productions like Orfeo from Monteverdi, Die Entführung aus dem Serail from Mozart and Carmen from Bizet. As a concert singer, he has appeared as an Evangelist and tenor soloist in all the big Bach works.

In 2009, together with this partner Arianna Savall, he founded Hirundo Maris – an Ensemble which specializes in old and self-composed music. Mediterranean and Nordic music and also a result of extensive combined work, is the centre point of the work of this Ensemble, who currently appears on ECM.