AUSTIN GUNN
TENOR
One of the UK's leading tenors, Austin has worked extensively with English National Opera , Scottish Opera, Longborough Festival Opera, Berwick Festival Opera, Edinburgh International Festival, and many other companies.
He made his Portuguese debut in 2017 in the Musica Na Fabrica Festival in Lisbon directed by Max Hoehn and his Swiss debut in 2018 as the Spectre in Dvorak's The Spectre's Bride in Zürich.
He is an extremely busy oratorio and concert performer and has appearing in France, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden, and throughout the UK and in recitals for the World Harmony Orchestra, the William Shield Festival, the Wellcome Trust, the Literary & Philosophical Society, and at universities and recital halls.
TEACHER
He is on the professorial staff at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance as well as being a visiting lecturer in performance at Leeds and Durham universities and has given masterclasses for the National Student Opera Society, Leeds Youth Opera, Hull University, York University, St John’s College, Durham University and for OperaLab in Brussels and at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris as well as being the adjudicator for the International School Musician of the Year award 2020 in China.
DIRECTOR
He has directed and produced over 30 operas for Rocket Opera, Berwick Festival Opera, Leeds Youth Opera, Newcastle Area Chamber Opera, the William Shield Festival, and university and conservatoire productions, was a founder member of the Tyne Coast arts Collective and co-producer of the Tyne Coast Festival, director of outreach for Newcastle Cathedral Music Department and acting director of Newcastle Cathedral Girls Choir as well as conducting choirs, orchestras and other ensembles and he engages in research in expressive language.
For his full biography please see 'Austin Gunn, Tenor Performance Biography'