A native of Åland, Finnish tenor Dan Karlström graduated from the Business School of Åbo Academy before starting his singing studies at the Sibelius-Academy. Later on he has been working with Prof. Herbert Brauer and attended master classes with Jaakko Ryhänen, Tom Krause, Prof. Gerhard Kahry, Alberto Zedda, Irina Gavrilovic, among others. He joined the opera studio in 1996 and performed various roles at the Skaala Chamber Opera and at the Swedish Theatre Helsinki.

Mr. Karlström has held positions at the Schillertheater in Gelsenkirchen and the Staathstheater Darmstadt.
An ensemble member of the Leipzig Opera since 2002, he has been performing in La Traviata, Madame Butterfly, Parsifal, Le nozze di Figaro, Les contes dHoffmann, Die Zauberflöte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Blaubart, Orpheus in der Unterwelt, Der Zigeunerbaron, Jesus Christ Superstar as well as Arabella, Der Fliegende Holländer,Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and La Rondine.

Guest engagements in Germany have taken him to Wiesbaden, Erfurt, Münster, Weimar and the Komische Oper Berlin. In Finland, he often performs at the Savonlinna Opera Festival (Faust, Tristan und Isolde, Les contes dHoffmann, Carmen) and at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, including such parts as Tobias/Sweeney Todd, Pedrillo, and Yonas/Adriana Mater (2008).

Dan Karlström has been working with such conduictors as Marc Albrecht, Ralf Weikert, Ascher Fisch, und Mikko Franck and such directors as Peter Sellars, Claus Guth, Robert Carson, Dietrich Hillsdorf and Fransisco Negrin. As a concert singer, his repertoire includes Bachs Weihnachtsoratorium, Händels Messiah, Mozarts Requiem and Krönungsmesse, Rossinis Petite Messe Solenelle and Orffs Carmina Burana, among others. He has also made recordings for radio, television and CD.