Jolyon Loy is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Royal Academy of Music & the National Opera Studio where he was supported by the Glyndebourne New Generation Programme, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, The Elmley Foundation, a Sybil Tutton Award & the Richard Van Allan Award from Help Musicians UK.
Jolyon was awarded 2nd Prize & the Bayreuth Festival Award at the 2019 Wagner Society Singing Competition at Wigmore Hall. He is a Britten Pears Young Artist, an Opera Holland Park Young Artist, an Opera Prelude Artist, an alumnus of the Verbier Festival’s Atelier Lyrique, a former choral scholar of Magdalen College, University of Oxford & a former member of the Glyndebourne Chorus.
Jolyon’s 2021/22 season began at English National Opera where he covered Mr Kallenbach in Philip Glass’s Satyagraha. Future appearances include Leone in Handel’s Tamerlano with Cambridge Handel Opera and Don Alfonso Così fan tutte with the English Concert / Tobias Ringborg as a Garsington Opera Alvarez Young Artist.
Recent performance highlights include Figaro Le nozze di Figaro at Opera Holland Park, Peter Hansel & Gretel with British Youth Opera, opera scenes with the NOS at Opera North, ENO & Welsh National Opera, Apollo in John Eccles’ Semele with the Academy of Ancient Music (released on AAM Records) & Stimme der Wächter Die Frau ohne Schatten under Valery Gergiev at the Verbier Festival.
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14 October 2020 2020/21 Young Artists Jolyon Loy (baritone) and Aeron Preston (Piano) perform 'Treue Liebe dauert lange' (Die Schöne Magelone) by Brahms. Read more
14 October 2020 2020/21 Young Artists Jolyon Loy (baritone) and Aeron Preston (Piano) perform 'Ein junger Dichter denkt an die Geliebte', by J. Marx Read more