Erkki Lauri Alste

Erkki Lauri Alste holds a master of music degree from the Sibelius-Academy in Helsinki, majoring in violin and singing. He also graduated as a voice teacher and a choir conductor. He continued his voice studies at the music conservatory in Aachen, Germany.

After his return to Finland he worked few years as a music teacher and led several choirs. From 1991 to 1996 he served as director of the popular "Tikkurila song classes" and concert cycle bound to the festival. In 1994 he started his first music agency named Orfeo Music, where he acted as a concert producer as well a manager for musicians of many different genre. Between 1997 and 2001 he led the Savonlinna Opera Agency bound to the well known international opera festival managing many international opera singers, stage directors and conductors.

In 2001 he moved to Germany and continued his work as an agent and in 2003, founded the agency Opera-Connection in Berlin together with his colleague Guido Mödersheim. In 2015 he started a second agency "Stretta Artists Management" to discover new talented singers, which he is running together with Rita Ahonen, (Basel) and Richard Rittelmann (Nice). Since few years Alste has partisipated in the juries of several international singing competitions and has given masterclasses for young students. He has also founded an annual "Audition and Repertoire Workshop for Young Opera Singers" (operaworkshops.com), which was held first in Germany and since 2017 all over the Europe.