Kaisa Ranta has studied singing in Oulu and Turku from where she graduated as a voice teacher. She then joined the Sibelius Acadamy in Helsinki in 2004 as a pupil of Marjut Hannula and and she graduated with excellent grades as a Master of Music in the spring of 2008. She also took lessons with the Slovakian professor Eva Blahovan and attended national and international master classes with Udo Reinemann.

The young soprano made her first appearances on stage with Ilkka Kuusisto’s Muumin Opera in Turku (2002) and in 2003­-04 in Stephen Sondheim’s Musical Pimeä metsä (Wood, 2003/2004). She subsequently performed Papagena/Die Zauberflöte in Nilsiä and the title part in Marko Autio’s opera for children The Pearl of Adalmina at the Turku Music Festival. In fall 2005, she made her role debut as Queen of the night at the Sibelius Academy’s Opera Studio, where she also performed La Finta Giardiniera and in Kuusisto’s Miehen kylkiluu (Man’s  rib).

A finalist of the Lappeenranta Singing Competition in 2004, she was awarded as promising young talent and eventually received the First Prize in 2006.  

In 2006 as well as in autumn 2007 she performed at the Finnish National Opera as Zaïde. And in the season 2008/09 she sings in the opera Freischütz. In November 2007 she sang in Brahms’ Requiem together with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra.

Ms. Ranta is an active concert singer and she has a versatile repertoire.  Especially her interpretations of the lieds of Richard Strauss have received acknowledgements. She also has performed abroad, for example in the Czech Republic, England, Japan, and USA. She has performed as a soprano soloist in W.A Mozart’s Requiem, C-minor mass and Exultate, jubilate -motet, Beethoven’s Mass in C major, Pergolesi’s and Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater, A. Salieri’s La passione di nostro Signore Gesu Cristo, Händel’s the Messias and Eternal Source of Light Divine, A. Brucner’s Requiem, J. Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem, J. Haydn’s St. Cecilia Mass (Slovakia), Saint-Saens’ Christmas Oratorio, J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion and Christmas Oratorio and Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (cantata), J. Rutter’s Requiem, A. Lloyd Webber’s Requiem, and C. Orff’s Carmina Burana. 

Ms. Ranta recorded J. Rutter’s Requiem and Cantus together with the Händel Choir in 2006. She also recorded Leevi Madetoja’s song with the Tapiola Chamber Choir in 2007.  Ms. Ranta performed for the first time the new composition of Neito by Uljas Pulkkis together with YL (male voice choir) and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in the spring of 2008.