Danish baritone Teit Kanstrup was born in Roskilde, and had from an early stage treble solos in the Cathedral boys-choir. He later trained at ‘Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium’ in Copenhagen before he moved to London, where he got his operatic training at the Royal Academy of Music Opera-program and finished with distinction in 2008.

His most recent and future engagements include Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder with South Denmark Philharmonic, Salieri in Rimky-Korsakov‘s Mozart and Salieri, baritone soloist in Vaughan-Williams‘ A Sea Symphony, Bach‘s Weihnachtsoratorium, Händel‘s Messiah, Germont in Verdi‘s La Traviata and the title role in Mozart‘s Don Giovanni at Danish National Opera.

In 2011 he made his American debut as Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte with The Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra (GA) and sang in the early years of his career among other parts, the title roles in Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro, the later conducted by Sir Colin Davis, Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte, Papageno in The Magic Flute, Dandini in La Cenerentola, Junius in The Rape of Lucretia and Schaunard in La Bohéme.

Teit now finds himself comfortable in the Kavalier-baritone repertoire and has in recent seasons sung Falke and Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, Silvio in I Pagliacci, Escamillo in Carmen, Orfeus in the contemporary opera Downfall performed by FIGURA-Ensemble at the Royal Danish Opera House, Marcello in La Bohéme as well as Scaramouche in Fetê Galante for Danish National Opera. For The Royal Danish Opera he has done the parts of Owen Heart in Dead Man Walking, Antonio in Il Viaggio a Reims and Sid in Fanciulla del West.

Being an experienced concert artist in the bass and baritone repertoire, Teit has worked with orchestras in northern Europe including the BBC NOW, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, South Denmark Philharmonic, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic and Göteborg Baroque in repertoire like Brahms Ein Deutsches requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Bach’s Passions and Christmas Oratorio, Händel’s Messiah, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, the symphonic drama Elverskud by N.W. Gade and F. Martin’s In Terra Pax just to highlight a few.

Conductors with whom he has worked with in concert and opera include Steuart Bedford, Sir Colin Davis, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Michael Schønwandt, Ewa Strusinska, Stefan Solyom, Thomas Søndergaard and Alexander Vedernikov.