Ivo Posti
Ivo Posti is an Estonian countertenor and historian. Director of.Ivo Posti at first studied history in the Estonian University of Tartu and became a teacher of Political Science. Between 1996–2001, he studied singing with Aino Kõiv at the Heino Eller Music School in Tartu, and from 2001 until 2007, he studied at Royal Conservatory of The Hague where his teachers were Rita Dams and Barbara Pearson. He has also studied with Marius van Altena and Diane Forlano and has had master classes with Taru Valjakka, Thomas Wiedenhofer, Michael Chance, Jill Feldman, Rick Harrell, Niels Muus, Brian Masuda and Roberta Alexander.Career
Ivo Posti has given concerts in Estonia and abroad. He has also won many prizes in different competitions. Since 2005 Posti has organized masterclasses for classical singers in Tartu.
In the 2007–2008 season, Posti was a member of Opera Studio Nederland. In January 2008 he debuted in co-operation with the Aix-en-Provence Festival in France, where he performed the role of The Spirit in Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell in Opéra de Lille and . In the season 2008-2009 he sang the role of Grazia in Ercole Amante by Francesco Cavalli in De Nederlandse Opera and role of Parque in Hippolyte et Aricie by Jean-Philippe Rameau at the Nationale Reisopera in The Netherlands. He also performed George Frideric Handel's Brockes Passion in April 2009 with Concerto Copenhagen in Spain. In June 2010 he sang the role of Vjazemskaja in The Dog's Heart by Alexander Raskatov at De Nederlandse Opera.
Posti also sings jazz and ballades as a baritone.
