Swedish baritone Anders Östberg is a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama’s Opera course, where he studied with Peter Alexander Wilson and George Gordon. He also studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire where, upon his graduation in 2004, he was awarded a First Class BMus (Hons) degree after four years of singing studies with Henry Herford. He was especially pleased to be awarded the Principal’s prize for outstanding contributions to the life
of the Conservatoire.

In the last few years he has sung with the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, covered roles at English National Opera and Glyndbourne, and has sung for Scottish Opera's Essential Scottish Opera tour as well as singing Kuligin in their production of Katya Kabanova.

Operatic roles include: Steward in Jonathan Dove’s Flight, Argante in Handel’s Rinaldo (RSAMD), Kuligin in Katya Kabanova (Scottish Opera), Jim Larkens in La Fanciulla del West (Edinburgh International Festival), Onegin in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (for New Youth Opera at Jackson’s Lane Theatre in London), Bartolo and Antonio Le Nozze di Figaro (for Opera! With performances in London and Holland), Notar Don Pasquale (for Stanley Hall Opera), Giove La Calisto, Eldest Son in Judith Weir’s The Vanishing Bridegroom (RSAMD) Parson Cunning Little Vixen, Mercurio L’incoronazione di Poppea (for English National Opera, the RSAMD and Birmingham Conservatoire), Notar Die Rosenkavalier as well as having understudied Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro.

Anders is also an active oratorio singer and has appeared twice as a soloist in Birmingham’s Symphony Hall; in Brahms’ Requiem with the CBSO and as the High Priest in Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the ECO. He has also performed as a soloist in Bach’s St John Passion Duruflé’s Requiem, Fauré’s Requiem, Gounod’s Petite Messe de Sainte Cecilé, Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle , Haydn’s The Seasons, Brahms’ Requiem, Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs, Schubert’s Mass in G, Stainer’s Crucifixion and Schumann’s Requiem. Recently he sang the part of Jesus in the UK premiere of Fredrik Sixten’s En Svensk Markuspassion.

He has given concerts around England, Wales and Scotland including recitals of Vaughn Williams’ Songs of Travel, as well as recitals in Sweden performing Bach’s Cantata nr. 82 “Ich habe Genug” and Finzi’s Let us garlands bring. He has also taken part in a concert tour of Slovenia giving six concerts throughout the country. Recent concert engagements include concerts at Drumlanrig Castle and The Palace of Holyroodhouse.

Anders has won the Reginald Vincent Lieder Prize, the John Ireland Prize, the Gordon Clinton English Song Prize and received “the Robert Gahan award for achievement by a first year singer”. He was selected as a Crear scholar and took part in a week of intensive masterclasses with Malcolm Maritneau. Anders has also sung in masterclasses given by Elly Ameling, David Wilson-Johnson, Donald Maxwell, Ian Storey, Patricia MacMahon, Wolfgang Holtzmair, Alasdair Elliot, Susan McCulloch, and Peter Jackson and has attended the Abingdon Summer School for Solo singers as well as the Stuttgart based Festivalensemble directed by Helmunt Rilling.

Anders has been an active chorus singer, most recently in the Scottish Opera chorus, but also in the Glyndebourne Festival Opera Chorus for the 2007 season and as one of eight chorus members in the Edinburgh International Festival’s acclaimed production of Curlew River. He has worked in the chorus for Stanley Hall Opera as well as being a member the CBSO Chorus with whom he has performed at the Musikverin, the Concertgebouw and many of the main British venues.

Before coming to England he studied classical guitar and singing for two years at Lunnevads Folkhögskola after having taken the Swedish equivalent of A-levels in nature sciences in his hometown, Växjö, where he had his first singing experiences singing with the a'capella group För Många.