Allan Clayton
(Tenors)
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Allan Clayton
(Tenors) Biography:
"The young tenor’s voice, though still cleanly focused, has strengthened and warmed since his Albert Herring days, and there is a superb certainty about the way he tackles these arias." Richard Morrison, The Times, January 2010 Allan Clayton was a chorister at Worcester Cathedral before going up to St John’s College, Cambridge on a choral scholarship, and then postgraduate studies on the opera course at the Royal Academy of Music where he was awarded an inaugural Sir Elton John Scholarship and a John Lewis Award. He was also awarded a Maidment Scholarship, administered by the Musicians Benevolent Fund; a Star Award from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, and ‘The Queen's Commendation for Excellence 2007’. Allan was a member of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme between 2007-2009, was awarded a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in 2008, and the John Christie Award after his highly successful debut in the title role of Albert Herring at the 2008 Glyndebourne Festival. He was also nominated for both the 2009 RPS Young Artist award and the 2009 South Bank Show Breakthrough Award. On stage, Allan has enjoyed critical praise for his Ferrando in the 2010 revival of Cosi fan tutte for Glyndebourne Festival. Other roles have included Belmonte/Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Lampwick in Jonathan Dove’s opera Pinocchio for Opera North; the title role Albert Herring for Opera Comique in Paris, the Glyndebourne Festival and the Britten Pears School; the title role Peter Grimes; Tamino/The Magic Flute; Prologue/Quint/Turn of the Screw; Belfiore/La finta giardiniera; the Madwoman/Britten’s Curlew River; Tenor Actor in Weir’s A Night at the Chinese Opera; the title role in Rameau’s Dardanus; Count Vandemont in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and the Male Chorus/The Rape of Lucretia, as well as appearances in Purcell’s King Arthur in France and Death in Venice at the Festival Hall. Recent concert engagements have included his well-received debut with the London Symphony Orchestra, playing Cassio in a concert performance of Verdi’s Otello, the Academy of Ancient Music, the BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, The Philharmonia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Concert orchestra, The Ulster Orchestra, The English Concert, Orchestra of Opera North, and Britten Sinfonia, with conductors including William Christie, Giandrea Noseda, Trevor Pinnock, Richard Egarr, Paul Kildea, and performing a wide range of repertoire from Bach’s St Matthew Passion and St John Passion, Handel’s Messiah, L’Allegro, Joshua and Jeptha, Haydn’s Creation, to Bruckner’s Te Deum, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, and The Kingdom, Britten’s War Requiem, Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, St Nicholas, and Nocturne, Finzi’s Dies Natalis and a concert performance of Puccini’s Il Tabarro at the 2008 BBC Proms. His recordings include Handel’s Messiah for EMI, recorded live from King’s College Cambridge and soon to be released as a DVD, and a live recording of Handel’s Joshua for the London Handel Society. Allan has given recitals at the Cheltenham Music Festival, the City of London Festival, Derry Song Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Perth International Arts Festival in Australia, the Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge and Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen, appearing with many pianists including Paul Lewis, Graham Johnson, Paul Lewis, Simon Lepper and James Baillieu. In the 09/10 season he returns to the Opera de Comique in Paris as Benedict/Béatrice et Bénédict and to Opera North as Ferrando/Cosi fan tutte, sings Britten’s Serenade in Perth with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and Paul Daniel, Haydn’s Nelson Mass in Leeds, Die Schöne Müllerin at Leeds Lieder and at the Perth Schubertiade, Messiah with both The English Concert and Polyphony, and The Matthew Passion with the Bach Choir. In November 2010 Allan Clayton will make his debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in New York City. This biography is for website use only. For a full and updated biography please email info@ingpen.co.uk Contact Details: Territories: Artist Links: |
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