AUSTIN GUNN
TENOR
Austin has worked extensively with English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Longborough Festival Opera, Berwick Festival Opera, Edinburgh International Festival, the Musica Na Fabrica Festival, the World harmony Orchestra and many other companies in opera, oratorio and recital in France, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and throughout the UK.
TEACHER
Austin is on the professorial staff at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance as well as being an approved tutor in performance at Durham University 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 Live Music Now auditions and the International School Musician of the Year award 2020 in China.
DIRECTOR
Austin 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 and acting director of Newcastle Cathedral Choir as well as conducting choirs, orchestras and other ensembles and he engages in research in expressive language.
For his full performance biography please see 'Austin Gunn, Tenor Performance Biography'