Erika Gundesen

Erika Gundesen is a graduate of the University of British Columbia and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she was awarded a Masters in Piano Performance and an Artist Diploma in Opera Studies. She was also awarded an assistant conductor fellowship at the Guildhall in 2017. She was a was a National Opera Studio Young Artist 2017–2018, a Britten Pears Young Artist in 2019, and a Scottish Opera Emerging Artist 2018–2019.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: The Lehman Trilogy (West End)

Other theatre work includes: Tutankhamun’s Shoes for English Touring Opera; Come Bargain with Uncanny Things for Virtually Opera; Salome, Mavra/Pierrot Lunaire and Seven Deadly Sins/Mahagonny at the Royal Opera House; Bette Midler and Me at Edinburgh Fringe; La donna del lago at Buxton Opera; Broken Wings and Queen of the Mist at Charing Cross Theatre; The Rhythmics at Southwark Playhouse; The Gondoliers, L’elisir d’amore, The Magic Flute, Kát’a Kabanová and Rigoletto at Scottish Opera; A Christmas Carol at the Dominion; Jesus Christ Superstar for Young Actors Theatre; Sweeney Todd and My Fair Lady for Geoids Musical Theatre; and Whistle Down the Wind, Little Shop of Horrors, RENT, Parade, Carrie, West Side Story and Oliver! for Vivo d’Arte.