Thomas Walker
Tenor
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This month, Thomas Walker sings the title role in both Charpentier Actéon and Rameau Pygmalion with the Academy of Ancient Music and Laurence Cummings. The concert performances take place in...
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Returning to a much loved piece, Thomas will sing Beethoven Missa Solemnis in Bremen on 5 September and Bonn on 8 September with B’Rock, conducted by Rene Jacobs.
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On 9 and 10 May Thomas Walker sings Mendelssohn's Elijah with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev, the SCO’s Principal Conductor. Performances at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh followed...
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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. Over the last two decades he has performed a vast range of repertoire from JS, JC and CPE Bach, through Handel, Gluck and Mozart, to Beethoven, Janáček, Honegger and Britten.
Highlights
- Bajazet Tamerlano – Freiburg Baroque Orchestra – René Jacobs
- Adam Scarlatti Il Primo Omicidio; Arnalta in Monteverdi L’incoronazione di Poppea –Staatsoper Berlin
- Mendelssohn Elijah– Scottish Chamber Orchestra – Maxim Emelyanychev
- Title role Rameau Platée – Stuttgart Opera
- Beethoven Missa Solemnis– Belgian National Orchestra – Hugo Wolff
- Bach Evangelist St John Passion & St Matthew Passion – Orchestra of the 18th Century
Biography
In the current season, Thomas makes an important role debut as Bajazet in Tamerlano on a European tour with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and René Jacobs, a role he will sing on stage in future seasons; tours with B’Rock Orchestra with Missa Solemnis and Handel Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno and in another ongoing relationship, sings Mozart C minor Mass with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Maxim Emelyanychev having previously sung Mendelssohn Elijah and a Schubert Mass with them. Other season highlights include the title role in both Charpentier Actéon and Rameau Pygmalion with the Academy of Ancient Music and Laurence Cummings; Stravinsky Threni with the Capella Amsterdam and Purcell The Fairy Queen at the Savonlinna Festival.
Previously, Thomas has appeared on stage as Adam in Scarlatti Il Primo Omicidio at both Opéra national de Paris and the Staatsoper Berlin; returned to Berlin to sing Arnalta in L’incoronazione di Poppea; sung Admeto in Gluck Alceste at the Ruhr Triennale and the title roles in Rameau Zoroastre at the Komische Oper Berlin and Platée for Staatsoper Stuttgart.
Past concert highlights include Rinaldo in Haydn Armida with the Basel Chamber Orchestra; Monteverdi L’incoronazione di Poppea with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer; touring with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Daniel Reuss singing Evangelist in both Bach St John and St Matthew Passions as well as multiple appearances with the Orchestre National de Belgique, most recently for Beethoven Missa Solemnis at the Bozar with Hugh Wolff.
Thomas has recorded a wide variety of repertoire including Janáček choral works and Beethoven Missa Solemnis with Cappella Amsterdam conducted by Daniel Reuss; Bach Magnificats with Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen; and Honegger Le Roi David with Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne.
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