Praised for his “indelible” and “fine-honed baritone” (The Business Journals), Erik Nordstrom is emerging as an exciting and versatile singing actor. A Minnesota native, Erik began the 2025–26 season at the Glimmerglass Festival where he sang Boatman/Charles in Sunday in the Park with George. He then returned to Pittsburgh Opera as a Resident Artist for Schaunard in La Bohème, a reprisal of Hawkins Fuller in the Opera Parallèle production of Greg Spears’ Fellow Travelers, The Ferryman in Britten’s Curlew River and as Tyson in the world premiere of Laura Kaminsky and Crystal Manich’s Time to Act.

Summer 2026 sees Erik return to Glimmerglass as Jud Fry in Francesca Zambello’s new production of Oklahoma! and as Tommy McIntyre and Hawkins Fuller (cover) in Fellow Travelers. In the fall, Erik continues as a Resident Artist with Pittsburgh Opera and will appear as Marullo in Rigoletto, Ormonte in Handel’s Partenope, Macbeth in the world premiere of Johanny Navarro and Marcus Yi’s Working for the Macbeths, and Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette.

In 2023, Erik was named a winner at the Minnesota District of the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition and then received an Encouragement Award at the Upper Midwest Regional. He also won the Ralph Corbett Award (First Prize) at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music’s (CCM) 2022 Corbett Competition. Erik earned his Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance at Lawrence University, where he studied with Steven Spears. He then earned both his Master of Music and an Artist Diploma in Opera Performance from CCM, studying with Bill McGraw, Tom Baresel, and Quinn Ankrum.