Born in Australia and a resident of Paris, Finnish tenor Topi Lehtipuu studied piano and violin at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and later on choral directing and singing.  His present teacher is Elisabeth Werres. He made his stage debuts at the Vantaa Opera (Albert Herring), at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (Tamino).

Much sought-after for his fine interpretation of New as well as Old Music, including the major Mozart roles, Topi Lehtipuu is often working under the batons of Ivor Bolton, William Christie, René Jacobs et Christophe Rousset, ainsi que Paul Mc Creesh, Emanuelle Haïm, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Peter Schreier and Jean-Christophe Spinosi. Besides his many engagements in France, Finland and at the Salzburg Festival, he has appeared in Los Angeles, Berlin, Dresden, Zürich, London, Madrid and Glyndebourne. 

Among his most prestigious recordings are Rameau’s Les Paladins (William Christie, Les arts florissants) in the celebrated Chatelet production, and a CD of Monteverdi's Combattimento together with Rolando Villazon, Patricia Ciofi and Le concert d'Astrée under Emanuelle Haim.

In addition to several concerts and recordings, opera projects until 2011 include Haendel’s Jephta (Opéra du Rhin), Cosí fan tutte (Salzburg) Iphigénie en Tauride (La Monnaie, Brussels), his debut at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich with the world premiere of an new Eötvös opera, Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress at the Glyndebourne Festival, La Finta Giardiniera for Theater an der Wien, followed by his Vienna State Opera debut with Cosí fan tutte and another role debut as David/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Glyndebourne Festival.