Thomas Walker

Thomas Walker sang with us on Saturday 20th March 2010 in our performance of Bach’s masterpiece, St John Passion, with period instruments.

 

Born in Glasgow, Thomas Walker studied in the brass department of The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama before studying singing with Ryland Davies at the Royal College of Music. In 2005 Thomas was one of the first singers to receive a Susan Chilcott Award.

 

 

 

Current plans include L’Italiana in Algeri (Lindoro) for Scottish Opera; Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Almaviva) with John-Christoph Spinosi in Brest; Don Giovanni (Don Ottavio) for Opera Holland Park; Handel’s Messiah for Welsh National Opera with Harry Bicket; Haydn’s Creation in Lisbon with Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa and a concert of Bach cantatas in Vienna.

 

Thomas Walker has sung Pélleas for Opera Theatre Company, Ireland; Linfea in Cavalli’s La Calisto with René Jacobs at La Monnaie, Brussels; Zotico in Cavalli’s Eliogabalo for Grange Park Opera; Fenton in Falstaff for English Touring Opera; Jeník in a new production of Janáček’s Makropulos Case for English National Opera conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras; Ferrando in Così fan Tutte for Holland Park Opera; Alessandro in Il Re Pastore at the Innsbruck Early Music Festival; The Italian Tenor in Der Rosenkavalier for Scottish Opera and Letchmere in Owen Wingrave for Covent Garden.

 

Thomas’ debut at the 2002 Proms in Mendelssohn’s Elijah (Octet) at the Royal Albert Hall, with Kurt Masur and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, resulted in a return invitation to the 2004 Proms to sing Janáček’s Otcenas. An immediate re-invitation also followed his debut with the Northern Sinfonia when he sang in Bach’s Magnificat with Thomas Zehetmair and he was subsequently asked to sing Haydn’s Creation in the opening concert at the Sage, Gateshead.

 

Other recent concert appearances have included Messiah at the Wigmore Hall conducted by Christian Curnyn; Evangelist in Bach’s St Matthew Passion and Giuliano in Handel’s Rodrigo with Al Ayre Espagñol; Haydn’s Nelson Mass with City of London Sinfonia; Beethoven’s Mass in C at the BBC Proms with the late Richard Hickox; Chevalier in Poulenc’s Les Dialogues des Carmélites at the Edinburgh International Festival with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Messiah with RIAS Kammerchor, Berlin, in their New Year’s concert at the Philharmonie, Mozart’s La Betulia Liberata with I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan conducted by Antonello Manacorda; Bach’s St John Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment and Mark Padmore; Tippett’s A Child of our Time with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis, and Handel’s Jephtha and Schubert Mass No 6 in E flat with Capella Amsterdam and Daniel Reuss.