Gareth Brynmor John

Baritone Gareth Brynmor John has sung operatic roles from Mozart to world premieres. He is also an art song enthusiast and is in demand for concert music performances. Brynmor John grew up in Kingston upon Thames, near London, where he attended the Tiffin School, sang in the boys' choir, and benefited from what he calls probably the best state school music program in the country. Brynmor John, his two older brothers, and his father all sang in the choir at the local parish church. He attended St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was a choral scholar (a singer who receives tuition aid in return for performing at university events). Brynmor John went on to the Royal Academy of Music, where he won several major prizes, including the 2013 Kathleen Ferrier Award, as well as the Independent Opera Postgraduate Voice Fellowship. In 2017, he made his Welsh National Opera debut as Schaunard in Puccini's La bohème, and he has made several further appearances at that house. He made his recording debut in 2020 on the Albion label, joining several other singers on the album Fearful Symmetry: Songs and Piano Music by John Sykes. Brynmor John has appeared in a wide variety of operatic roles in the English, French, Italian, German, and Russian languages. In addition to the Welsh National Opera, he has been a familiar figure at the Royal Academy Opera, where he sang the role of Claudio in Berlioz's Béatrice et Bénédict under conductor Sir Colin Davis. Brynmor John created the role of Carl in Stefano Gervasoni's Limbus Limbo at the Strasbourg Festival Musica and the Opéra Comique in Paris. He has made appearances in large-scale British choral music performances, including a series with the Really Big Chorus in Mendelssohn's Elijah at Birmingham Town Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Cadogan Hall, and Handel's Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall and elsewhere. Brynmor John has appeared in song recitals at the Royal Academy of Music, Wigmore Hall, King's Place, and the London English Song Festival, and he has performed in the Songsmiths series at St. John's, Smith Square. He appeared on the Somm label's 2022 recording Stanford: Children's Songs, and in 2023, he joined soprano Gemma Summerfield on the album The Poet's Echo: Britten, Prokofiev, Shostakovich.
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