Thomas Walker
Tenor
Media
Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted by Daniel Reuss, 2017. By kind permission
Arcangelo, conducted by Jonathan Cohen. By kind permission of Hyperion Records, 2017
by kind permission of John Butt and The Dunedin Consort 2014
Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Paul McCreesh. Courtesy of Australian Broadcasting Corporation Classic FM 2014
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Daniel Reuss. Glossa 2016. By kind permission
“Thomas Walker was bold in the tenor arias, delivering a sensual 'Comfort Ye', an unflinching 'Thy rebuke hath broken His heart' and a menacing 'Thou shalt break them.'”
Born in Glasgow, Thomas Walker studied brass at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and singing with Ryland Davies at the Royal College of Music, London.
Highlights
- Title role Rameau Zoroastre – Komische Oper Berlin
- Mendelssohn Elijah – Sydney Symphony Orchestra – Paul McCreesh
- Title role Rameau Platée; Purcell The Fairy Queen – Stuttgart Opera
- Beethoven Missa Solemnis and Evangelist St John Passion – Orchestra of the 18th Century
- Admeto Gluck Alceste – Ruhr Triennale – Rene Jacobs
- Adam Scarlatti Il Primo Omicidio – Opera National de Paris; Staatsoper Berlin
Biography
This season he will make his débuts at the Opéra national de Paris and Staatsoper Berlin as Adam in Scarlatti Il Primo Omicidio, a role he will reprise at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Other plans for this season and beyond include Haydn Die Schöpfung with Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne and Daniel Reuss; Stravinsky Threni with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski; and First Elder in Handel Susanna with the Basel Chamber Orchestra and Paul McCreesh. Thomas will sing Bach with the Orchestra of the 18th Century and Reuss (Evangelist, St John Passion and St Matthew Passion); and Dunedin Consort with John Butt (B Minor Mass); and Handel Messiah with RSNO and Casa da Musica, Porto.
Thomas has recently sung Rinaldo in Haydn Armida with René Jacobs and the Basel Chamber Orchestra in Warsaw, Vienna and Basel; title role in Rameau Zoroastre at the Komische Oper Berlin; Purcell Fairy Queen and title role in Rameau Platée for Stuttgart Opera; Admeto in Gluck Alceste at the Ruhr Triennale; and Sospiro in Gassmann L’opéra seria for La Monnaie, Brussels. Past roles include Count Almaviva; Eurimaco The Return of Ulysses; Janek Makropulos Case; Alessandro Il Re Pastore; Quint The Turn of the Screw; Lysander A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Lindoro L’Italiana in Algeri; Pélleas; Linfea Calisto; and Letchmere Owen Wingrave for companies including the Royal Opera Covent Garden, ENO, Scottish Opera, Innsbruck Early Music Festival and on tour with Ensemble Matheus.
Recent concerts have included Beethoven Missa Solemnis on tour with the Orchestra of the 18th Century and Daniel Reuss; title role in Handel Belshazzar with the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin and Ottavio Dantone on a European tour including the Salzburg Festival; Orff Carmina Burana at the BBC Proms; Elijah with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Berlioz L’enfance du Christ for the Gulbenkian Foundation and Haydn Die Schöpfung with the Belgian B’Rock Orchestra in Amsterdam. He has also sung Britten Les Illuminations and War Requiem; Stravinsky Pulcinella; Meyerbeer Emma di Resburgo and Tippett A Child of our Time with conductors including Sir Andrew Davis and Jeffrey Tate.
His most recent recording was a highly-acclaimed CD of works by John Blow with Arcangelo, Samuel Boden and Jonathan Cohen.
Bach appearances include St John and St Matthew Passions with the OAE and Mark Padmore and the Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh; Bach Mass in F and Easter Oratorio with the Orchestra of the 18th Century and Frans Brüggen and Bach (JC, JS and CPE) Magnificat with Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen (concert and recording).
Contact:
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