Kristin Okerlund

Pianist and vocal coach Kristin Okerlund passed away suddenly on 11th October 2025.

Kristin was an instrumental part of our summer academy Opera by the Fjord from the beginning, and invaluable both as a colleague and coach. She will be sorely missed.

Kristin Okerlund worked at the Wiener Staatsoper as repetiteur as well as teaching at the Vienna Conservatory.

She studied at the University of Illinois and at the Conservatoire in Vienna. She won several prizes in piano competitions and played in concert with many orchestras. She performed around the world as a soloist, in chamber music concerts and as an accompanist.

Okerlund was employed by the Wiener Staatsoper as répétiteur since 1993 and in 1992 she received a teaching position. From 2000 she also had her own chorus repetition class at the Vienna Conservatory. She gave concerts, among others, with Gruberova and Kirchschlager, and chamber music concerts with Werner Hink, the solo clarinetist Roger Salander and the Ensemble Wien-Petersburg. She received the “Golden Needle” of the Friends of the Wiener Staatsoper - in recognition of her reliable support of numerous events.

Updated October 2025