Jussi Lehtipuu

Baritone Jussi Lehtipuu started his singing studies in Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, and continued them in Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Udo Reinemann and Valérie Guillorit. At the same time he also studied with Reinemann in Conservatoire National de Région de Metz, France, and in Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels, Belgium. At the moment he is a student in Amsterdam (De Nieuwe Opera Academie) taught by Pierre Mak. Besides his studies in Amsterdam Lehtipuu has attended master classes by Tom Krause, David Wilson-Johnson, Peter Kooij, Irwin Gage and Jeff Cohen.
In the Netherlands, Lehtipuu has been a soloist for W. A. Mozart's and J. S. Bach's sacred works conducted by Barthold Kuijken and Jos van Veldhoven. Last season he has been soloist for operas by Gluck (Iphigénie en Aulide, Calchas), Poulenc (Dialogues des Carmelites, Thierry & L'Officier) and Mozart (Don Giovanni, Leporello). The forthcoming events include roles in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea (Ottone) and in Mozart's Così fan tutte (Guglielmo).