Norwegian tenor Henrik Enger Holm is a recent graduate of the Dutch National Opera Academy (Amsterdam, NL) and the 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, as well as a particular affinity for Scandinavian music, by the likes of Alfvén, Backer-Grøndahl, Grieg and Peterson-Berger.
During his time at the DNOA Henrik performed roles including Ein Soldat/Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Ullmann), Fileno/La fedeltà premiata (Haydn), Telemaco/Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Monteverdi) and Singer #5/Transformations (Susa).
Further experience on the opera stage includes Edoardo Milfort/La cambiale di matrimonio (Rossini) at Bredeweg Festival, Bastien/Bastien und Bastienne (Mozart) at Klassiek op het Amsteveld Festival, Nicolò/Querini (Sommerro) on tour with Arctic Philharmonic, Grover/The Wild Beast of the Bungalow and Eddie/Three Amputators (Peters & Vavrek) with Arctic Philharmonic at the Oslo and Arctic Chamber Music Festivals, Secrecy, Autumn, Phoebus/The Fairy Queen (Purcell) at the Royal Academy of Music, Peter Simple/Sir John in Love (Vaughan Williams) with British Youth Opera and Opera Holland Park and Tamino/Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) and Gherardo/Gianni Schicchi (Puccini) with The Athenaeum Opera.
Recent concert highlights include a tour of Liebesliederwalzer and Neue Liebeslieder (Brahms), including at the Concertgebouw, appearances at the Opera Forward Festival with The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and as tenor soloist in works such as Lobgesang (Mendelssohn), Matthäus-Passion (Telemann), Oratorio de Noël (Saint-Saëns), St. Cecilia Mass (Gounod), Petite messe solennelle (Rossini), Harmoniemesse (Haydn), Passion pasticcio (Graun), as well as numerous Cantatas, Johannes-Passion, Himmelfahrtsoratorium, Mass in B minor and Magnificat (Bach).
Henrik has worked with conductors such as Ben Palmer, Laurence Cummings, Marit Strindlund, Christina Domnick and Benjamin Wenzelberg, with stage directors such as Floris Visser, Anja Kühnhold, Harry Fehr and Rennik-Jan Neggers, as well as with orchestras and ensembles such as Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Residentie Orkest, Arctic Philharmonic, The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia, Lautten Compagney Berlin, Bach Collegium ‘s-Hertogenbosch and Veenkoloniaal Symfonie Orkest.
An avid recitalist, Henrik also curates and gives recitals throughout Norway, the UK and the Netherlands, notably in programmes developed together with his brother and tenor Martin Enger Holm.
He was a finalist 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).