Ed Lyon tenor

Ed Lyon was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, from which he graduated with a BA in History of Art in 2001, and at the Royal Academy of Music, where he was awarded many prizes including the Goldberg Operatic Prize, the Joseph Mass tenor prize and the Flora Nielsen Song Prize. He was a finalist in the 2003 Kathleen Ferrier Competition, and is a Samling Foundation Scholar.

He made his professional debut at Snape Maltings when he sang the Evangelist in Telemann's St. Matthew Passion, and returned to perform Britten's Cantata Misericordium and Acis in Handel’s Acis and Galatea.

Recently he has sung Bach’s St John Passion, Bach's St.Matthew Passion, Beethoven's Mass in C, the world premiere of Michael Stimpson’s The Angry Garden, Britten’s Serenade and Les Illuminations, Britten’s War Requiem at the Berlin Philharmonie, Messiah at Birmingham Symphony Hall and the Royal Albert Hall, Mozart’s Requiem with Sir Roger Norrington at the Spitalfields Festival and Hylas in Handel’s Hercules for the London Handel Festival.

Operatic roles include Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw, the Male Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia and the title role in Albert Herring for Opera East Productions and the Opera Project at Iford and Longborough. He recently sang the part of the Schoolmaster in Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen under Sir Charles Mackerras, Ecclitico in Haydn’s Il Mondo della Luna and Kornelis in La Princesse Jaune for Royal Academy Opera and Jupiter in Handel’s Semele for British Youth Opera.

Future performances include Shepherd in Orfeo with Le Concert d’Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm in Lille, the Châtelet, Paris and Strasbourg, Hyllus in Hercules by Handel with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants in New York and London, and Telemachus Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria for WNO. Ed studies at the National Opera Studio and is grateful to the Sybil Tutton Trust, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, English National Opera and Welsh National Opera for their support. Ed is taught by David Maxwell Anderson.