Benedikt Kristjánsson

Benedikt Kristjánsson (born 23 September 1987) is an Icelandic operatic and concert tenor who lives in Germany and has appeared internationally. He focuses on baroque music, especially by Johann Sebastian Bach, but has also performed and recorded romantic lieder and contemporary music. He has performed Bach's St John Passion in an arrangement for one singer, keyboard and percussion, in a live broadcast from Bach's resting place at the on Good Friday in 2020.

Life Benedikt Kristjánsson was born in . He studied first with his mother at the Reykjavik Academy of Singing and Vocal Arts. In 2007, he graduated from the Reykjavík Conservatory of Music. He continued his studies at the with Scot Weir. He took masterclasses with Elly Ameling, Robert Holl, Christa Ludwig, Thomas Quasthoff, Andreas Schmidt and Peter Schreier, and with pianist Helmut Deutsch.