Thomas Walker
Thomas Walker studied brass at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and singing at the Royal College of Music.
This season’s highlights include the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Daniel Reuss; Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne; Arnalta L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden and the title role in Haydn’s Orfeo with Adam Fischer at Theater an der Wien.
Previous highlights include L’incoronazione di Poppea with Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer; Evangelist St Matthew Passion; Bach at Wigmore Hall with Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh; the title role in Handel Belshazzar; Haydn Die Schöpfung; Orff Carmina Burana; Berlioz L’enfance du Christ and Adam in Scarlatti Il Primo Omicidio at Opéra national de Paris and Staatsoper Berlin.
Other roles include Admeto in Gluck Alceste and Rinaldo in Haydn Armida; Rameau Zoroastre at the Komische Oper Berlin; Purcell The Fairy Queen and Rameau Platée for Staatsoper Stuttgart; and Pélleas; Alessandro Il Re Pastore; Quint The Turn of the Screw; Lysander A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Lechmere Owen Wingrave for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; English National Opera; Scottish Opera and Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik.
His recordings include Beethoven Missa Solemnis with Cappella Amsterdam; Honegger Le Roi David with Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne; and Bach Magnificats with Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen.