Ian is a baritone based in London and the south-east.
Ian read philosophy at the University of Essex, completing his doctoral thesis on philosopher, composer and musicologist Theodor Adorno. He made his solo operatic debut with Hampstead Garden Opera in November 2011, singing the role of the Constable in Vaughan Williams’ Hugh the Drover. He has performed roles including Eugene Onegin, Marcello (La Boheme), Belcore (L’Elisir D’Amore), Guglielmo for Opera 24's Cosi fan Tutte, Musiklehrer and Harlekin in separate productions of Ariadne auf Naxos, Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas), and all male sung roles in Astor Piazzola’s 1968 tango opera Maria de Buenos Aries at the Grimeborn festival. In 2018 he recorded a new version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream playing Bottom. Most recently, he has been involved with Rose Opera, based at the Normansfield Theatre in Teddington, first playing Robert in the production of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and in October 2021 as the Dutchman in Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer. Roles performed as extracts in concert include, Don Giovanni, Papageno, Publio (La Clemenza di Tito) Count Almaviva, and Sharpless. He works by day as Assistant Head of English at a state secondary school English teacher.
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