Aksel Rykkvin
Aksel Rykkvin (b. 2003) is an award-winning Norwegian baritone currently taking a Bachelor of Music degree in Voice at the Royal Academy of Music (2022-26). He was placed third in the Joan Chissell/Rex Stephens Schumann Lieder Prize 2023, won the Joyce Budd Second Prize and the Norma Procter Song Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Young Singers 2023 and Most Promising Young Singer at the Somerset Song Prize 2024. Aksel and duo partner pianist Zany Denyer were ‘Leeds Lieder Young Artists’ in 2024.
Aksel had an illustrious career as the 'world's premier boy soprano' (Swedish Radio P2). Aksel received rave reviews for his début album recorded with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the age of twelve. Both his solo albums reached the UK Classical chart top 10. He has performed as a treble soloist and later as a baritone at numerous concerts, operas, festivals, on radio and TV in Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom, Austria and Germany.
Schubert: Der Wanderer an den Mond, D.870 | Aksel Rykkvin & Zany Denyer
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin song II, III, IV | Aksel Rykkvin & James Cheung
Auf ein altes Bild (Hugo Wolf) | Aksel Rykkvin & Zany Denyer
The Boy Soprano | documentary
Schubert: Die Mutter Erde, D.788 | Aksel Rykkvin & Zany Denyer
VGTV: Boy soprano Aksel Rykkvin (13) in the opera role 'Yniold'
Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98 | Aksel Rykkvin & Christian Ihle Hadland (w subs)
Nacht und Träume (Schubert) | Aksel Rykkvin & Max Nyberg
Silent Noon | Aksel Rykkvin (18 yo baritone) & Natallia Papova
En Svane (A Swan) | Aksel Rykkvin & Marina Kan Selvik
Frühlingstraum | Aksel Rykkvin (17 yo baritone) & Eirik Haug Stømner
Sidste reis (The Last Voyage) | Aksel Rykkvin (17 yo baritone) & Sara Aimée Smiseth
O Waly, Waly (The Water is Wide) | Aksel Rykkvin (16y baritone) & Eirik Haug Stømner
Ach, wir armen Leute | Aksel Rykkvin (15y baritone) & Natallia Papova | English subs CC
The Cold Song | Aksel Rykkvin (15y baritone) & James Dickenson
Ein deutsches Requiem (Brahms) | baritone soloist Aksel Rykkvin (15y) | Orkesterkollektivet
March violets | Aksel Rykkvin (15y baritone) | Piers Lane | English subs CC
Die Forelle | Aksel Rykkvin (15y baritone) & Piers Lane | English CC
Papagena, Papageno! | Aksel Rykkvin (15y) & Inga Lohne-Otterstad (14y) | "Stjärnornas stjärna"
Aksel Rykkvin (15y) in first opera role after his voice change | NRK1 Evening news 11.05.18
Nun beut die Flur das frische Grün | Aksel Rykkvin (14y boy soprano) | The Trondheim Soloists
Ombra mai fu | Aksel Rykkvin's last concert performance as a boy soprano (14y) | Skavlan talkshow
Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja | Aksel Rykkvin (14y baritone) | Natallia Papova (piano)
Tosca Shepherd boy | Aksel Rykkvin (14y boy soprano)
Cold Song (Purcell) | Aksel Rykkvin (boy soprano 14y) | The Trondheim Soloists
Cold Song (Purcell) from Frozen Songs by Zero Visibility Corp
Alla caccia | Aksel Rykkvin (13y boy soprano) | Mark Bennett | KORK
Let the bright Seraphim | Aksel Rykkvin (13y boy soprano) | Mark Bennett | KORK
Das himmlische Leben (Mahler) | Aksel Rykkvin (14y) | Christian Eggen | Ungdomssymfonikerne
Boy soprano Aksel Rykkvin (14y) sings Purcell in the funeral of his "mother"