British Youth Opera course, 2019. Photograph by Kathryn Chapman.
“The young tenor soloist Timothy Coleman was every bit as amazing. His diction was like a masterclass in the art of singing and there was a cutting edge to his tenor voice that was ideal for this music. Very few singers could have navigated the leaps, twists and turns in his vocal line with such perfect accuracy.”
Timothy Coleman is an accomplished classical tenor, with a wide range of experience in opera, choirs and concert works. Highlights include premiering the lead role of Aleks in Michael Betteridge’s Across the Sky for the Cheltenham Festival, an RPS Award-nominated production.
His concert repertoire includes:
Bach: Mass in B minor, St John Passion (arias)
Handel: Messiah, Samson (Samson)
Haydn: The Creation
Maxwell-Davies: The Solstice of Light
Mendelssohn: St Paul
Mozart: Requiem, Coronation Mass
Arvo Pärt: Passio (Pilatus)
Rossini: Petite Messe Solenelle
Schubert: Mass in G
His opera repertoire includes:
Michael Betteridge: Interviewee (Positive), Aleks (Across the Sky)
Jasper Dommett: Alex (Coram Boy)
Jake Heggie: Howard Boucher (cover, Dead Man Walking)
Mozart: Bastien (Bastien und Bastienne), Impresario (The Impresario), Tamino (The Magic Flute)
Julia Plaut: The Grenadier (Y Knot)
He has sung in the chorus with Northern Ireland Opera, Welsh National Youth Opera, British Youth Opera and Dorset Opera.
He has been appointed a Fellow with the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, sung as a lay-clerk with St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, and the Choir of New College, Oxford, and taken part in the Berlin Radio Choir’s Schola scheme.