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.
