A student of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and winner of several awards, finnish mezzo soprano Jenny Carlstedt continued her studies with Rudolf Piernay at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. Today she is working with Irina Gavrilovici.

For several years Jenny Carlstedt has been singing as a free lance in her home country and with most of the important Finnish orchestras and choirs. Much sought after as a lied, concert and especially oratorio singer, besides the Northern Countries she has performed at the Wigmore Hall  in London as well as in Germany and Italy under the baton of Helmuth Rilling. She sang Mozart’s Requiem with Peter Schreier, St John Passion under Roy Goodman as well as Paolo Carignani, Sibelius’ Kullervo with Okko Kamu  as well as Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Lieder eines farenden Gesellen under Jukka-Pekka Saraste.

She has also recorded a CD with Scandinavian songs on the Naxos label and the contemporary opera Katrina with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Petri Sakari.  Finnish Television featured her with the Christmas Oratorio as well as St. John’s Passion.

In 2001 Jenny Carlstedt made her debut as Dorabella/Cosí fan tutte at the Finnish National Opera, followed by the 2002 world premiere of Lars Karlssons’opera Rödhamn, with the main character Greta which had been created especially for her.

Since 2002 Jenny Carlstedt has been a permanent ensemble member of the Frankfurt Opera, featuring such parts as Angelina in Rossinis Cenerentola, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel and Dorabella in Cosí fan tutte, to name but a few. In 2006, she also performed Annio in a beautiful new Christof Loy procution of La Clemenza di Tito both in Frankfurt and at the Theater an der Wien, soon followed by Cosí fan tutte together with the Glyndenbourne Touring Company.

Productions in Frankfurt until 2008 include Die Zauberflöte, Elektra, Le nozze di Figaro, Il ritorno d’Ulysse (monteverdi) and Pique Dame.