Bass Nicholas Söderlund studied at the Turku Conservatory, the Sibelius Academy and the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. He was awarded Second Prize at both the 2006 Lappeenranta Singing Competition and the 2007 International Sibelius Singing Competition, and received the Finnish Wagner Society’s Bayreuth Scholarship and a Martti Talvela Foundation award in 2007, and a Karita Mattila Scholarship in 2009.

Söderlund has appeared as a soloist with many Finnish orchestras, and performed across Europe. He made his professional opera debut at the Finnish National Opera in 2007, and during 2008–09 performed with the Basel Opera in Switzerland. Söderlund has made several recordings for the Finnish Broadcasting Company. An active performer of contemporary Finnish music, he has premiered works by Olli Kortekangas, Jouni Kaipainen and Pasi Lyytikäinen.