Norwegian tenor Henrik Enger Holm is currently studying at Dutch National Opera Academy (Amsterdam, NL) under the tutelage of Professor Hanneke de Wit. He holds a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Arts from Royal Academy of Music (London, UK).
Henrik’s repertoire spans opera, oratorio and art song, with works by composers such as Bach, Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Donizetti and Fauré. He has a particular passion for Scandinavian music, especially the works of Alfvén, Backer-Grøndahl, Grieg and Peterson-Berger.
Upcoming performances with DNOA include Fileno/La fedeltà premiata (Haydn) on tour with Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Edoardo Milfort/La cambiale di matrimonio (Rossini) at Bredeweg Festival, as well as staged performances of Liebesliederwalzer and Neue Liebeslieder (Brahms) also on tour. Henrik will also appear as tenor soloist in Oratorio de Noël (Saint-Saëns), Petite messe solennelle (Rossini), as well as Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21 and Christus, der ist mein Leben, BWV 95 (Bach).
Past operatic work include Bastien/Bastien und Bastienne (Mozart) at Amstelveld Festival, Telemaco/Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Monteverdi) and Singer #5/Transformations (Susa) with DNOA and Residentie Orkest, Nicolò/Querini (Sommerro) on tour with Arctic Philharmonic in Norway and Italy, Grover/The Wild Beast of the Bungalow and Eddie/Three Amputators (Peters & Vavrek) also with Arctic Philharmonic at the Oslo and Arctic Chamber Music Festivals, Peter Simple/Sir John in Love (Vaughan Williams) with British Youth Opera and Opera Holland Park and Gherardo/Gianni Schicchi (Puccini) with The Athenaeum Opera
Past concert work include Liebesliederwalzer (Brahms) at the Concertgebouw, concerts with The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra at Opera Forward Festival, tenor soloist with Bach Collegium ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Harmoniemesse (Haydn) at the Sherborne Abbey Festival, as well as recitals throughout Norway, the UK and the Netherlands.
During his time at the Royal Academy of Music, he performed as Secrecy, Autumn and Phoebus/The Fairy Queen (Purcell) with Academy Baroque Soloists under Laurence Cummings. He also appeared in excerpts as Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni, Idamante/Idomeneo, Ferrando/Così fan tutte, Lurcanio/Ariodante, Tonio/La fille du regiment, Nemorino/L’elisir d’amore and as chorister in Iolanta (Tchaikovsky), L’enfant et les sortilèges (Ravel) and Chérubin (Massenet).
He was Highly Commended in Joan Chissell/Rex Stephens Schumann Lieder Prize (2022), received Second Prize in DNB Nasjonal Solistkonkuranse (2018) and competed in Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Young Singers (2018).
Henrik started singing as a treble in the Norwegian National Opera Children’s Chorus and the Norwegian Broadcasting’s Boys’ Choir. Early training includes the Young Talent Program at the Barratt Due Institute of Music (Oslo, NO) and Accademia Europea di Firenze (Florence, IT).