Elin Skorup (born 1979), are one of the new upcoming sopranos in Sweden. In the winter of 2008 she graduated from The Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm where she has been coached by Margaretha Elmerstad, Håkan Hagegård, Petteri Salomaa and Matti Hirvonen among other teachers. She is now in the beginning of a truly hopeful carreer as a lyric coloratura soprano and two of her specialties have become baroque and contemporary music. She has performed as a soprano soloist in the most important church music and oratorio repertoire by J.S Bach, W.A Mozart, J. Haydn, G.F. Händel, A. Vivaldi among others, in Sweden and abroad. She has been on a german tour with the Hannoversche Hofkappelle and J.S Bachs Christmas oratorio and also performed with orchestras like Royal Swedish Philharmonic Orchestra, Musica Vitae, Re:Baroque, the Drottningholm Baroque orchestra and the Swedish Royal Court orchestra. Elin has cooporated with musicians and conductors like Tobias Ringborg, Daniel Harding, Cecilia Rydinger Alin and Olof Boman.
In 2010 Elin was one of the soloists at the prestigious Polar Music Prize ceremony in the Concert hall in Stockholm, performing works by and for the laureate and film composer Ennio Morricone with the Royal Swedish philharmonic orchestra. This event was broadcasted live in TV. The same year Elin was on tour and appeared as one of the ensemble soloists in Mendelssohn’s Elias with Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Swedish Radio choir and Daniel Harding conductor. These concerts were recorded for Deutsche Grammophone. She was also invited to the Kursk State International Music Festival in Russia, april 2011 singing Händel arias with the Russian chamber orchestra.
Elin has taken part in operas like W. A. Mozart die Zauberflöte as Pamina and Le nozze di Figaro as Susanna and in H. Purcells Dido and Aeneas. She has also sung the role of the Secret political police in Mysteries of the Macabre by G. Ligeti.
With a big compassion for vocal ensemble singing Elin is often engaged in different professional ensembles like Harmony of voices with conductor Fredrik Malmberg, and the Eric Ericson chamber choir. She has also a great compassion for lied and art songs, since she have her heart in the chamber music genre. Elin is a member as one of the soprano soloists, of the recently founded Bach Society in Stockholm where the finest Swedish baroque musicians also are taking part and performes Bach Cantatas once a month during the whole year.
Elin has participated in a numerous of premiere performances by Swedish and foreign composers, many of those performances has been live broadcasted on TV and Radio.
