The Turku-Icelandic soprano Wilhelmína Tómasdóttir is a versatile singer who truly feels at home on stage. She is inspired by the stories within music and behind it, and has therefore been described as a singing actress. Opera is particularly close to her heart, and in 2025 she made her debut at the Ilmajoki Music Festival performing the title role of Katariina in Isoviha (Pulkkis). During the 2025–2026 season she appears, in addition to Ilmajoki, in the Finnish National Opera’s children’s operas The Barber of Seville (Rossini, Koivisto) and Tähtiainesta (Nykänen). Tómasdóttir enjoys contemporary music and has premiered several roles, including Katariina as well as Maria (Viimeinen lautta, Räsänen 2023), Lilaloo (Kuinka-Kum-Maa on kaikkialla, Ahola 2021) and Grandmother (Logicomix, Autio 2017).

Alongside opera, Tómasdóttir performs lied and Baroque repertoire as well as choral works as a soloist. In addition to the great oratorio classics, she has appeared as a soloist in works such as Pekka Kostiaisen Triduum Paschale (Matjeveff, 2024) and Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël (Sorensen, 2023). In lied repertoire, Tómasdóttir is particularly fascinated by the relationship between poetry and music and how they nourish and deepen each other, creating something new and wondrous. Her particular passion lies in vocal music composed around the turn of the twentieth century and thereafter.

Tómasdóttir began her musical studies as a flautist, and during upper secondary school she also discovered classical singing. Soon the flute took a back seat as singing captured her heart, leading her to complete a Master’s degree in vocal performance at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, where she studied with Annika Ollinkari. In her free time she enjoys reading, solving crossword puzzles and doing water aerobics.