Aksel Rykkvin

Aksel Rykkvin is a young award-winning Norwegian baritone. He is studying with Prof. Mark Wildman at the Royal Academy of Music 2022-26, with a prestigious ABRSM scholarship. He won several accolades in 2023 and 2024, including Third Prize in the Joan Chissell/Rex Stephens Schumann Lieder Prize, Second Prize and the Song Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Young Singers, Most Promising Young Singer at the Somerset Song Prize and the Marjorie Thomas Art of Song Prize at the Royal Academy of Music. Aksel was a ‘Leeds Lieder Young Artist’ in 2024 and a scholar of the Heidelberger Frühling Lied Academy in 2025.

Aksel has performed as a baritone soloist at festivals, concerts and operas in Norway, Sweden, UK, Austria, Germany and Switzerland. At Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber’s Lied festival in 2023, Neue Zürcher Zeitung highlighted “the young baritone with a name to be kept in mind’’ and Deutschlandfunk radio commended his “extremely clear diction”.