Icelandic tenor Jon Ketilsson commenced his training at Reykjavik’s New Music School before continuing his studies with Professor Leopold Spitzer in Vienna, going on to receive the opera diploma

An extensive concert repertoire includes Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 and Missa Solemnis, Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah as well as the Dvoràk and Verdi Requiems, Zemlinsky’s

'His compact tenor has a pleasant timbre with a strong top register. Many tenors have come to grief in the final minutes of the Dungeon Aria with its impossibly high tessitura, but Mr. Ketilsson sang