AUSTIN GUNN
TENOR
Austin has worked as a soloist with English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Longborough Festival Opera, Berwick Festival Opera, Edinburgh International Festival, the Musica Na Fabrica Festival in Lisbon, Tete a Tete Opera, World Harmony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, National Festival Orchestra, Zurich Ballet, The Band of the Royal Marines and many other companies in opera, oratorio and recital in France, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and throughout the UK and has made numerous broadcasts and recordings with BBC Radio, television and podcasts.
TEACHER
Austin is on the professorial staff at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance where he teaches singing one to one, coaches group performance and leads performance tutorials 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 adjudicator for Live Music Now auditions, the International School Musician of the Year award 2020 in China, and school music festivals.
DIRECTOR
Austin has directed and produced over 30 operas for Rocket Opera, Berwick Festival Opera, Leeds Youth Opera, Trinity Laban Conservatoire, 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 is Vice President of Ryton & District Music Festival.
For his full performance biography please see 'Austin Gunn, Tenor Performance Biography'
