Soloists

Laurence Kilsby

Laurence studied as an ABRSM Vocal Scholar at the Royal College of Music in London, and at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He was a member of the studio of the Opéra national de Paris during the 2022/23 season. An inaugural Lies Askonas Fellow, he was the winner of the 2018 Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Young Singers and is the winner of the 2022 Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition and the 2022 Cesti Competition at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik.

His opera engagements have also included the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Opéra de Dijon and Oper Köln and, in future seasons he will make debuts with the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik and the Glyndebourne Festival.

Highlights in his 2024/25 season include roles at the Opéra national de Paris, Opéra national du Rhin and Opéra Comique and concert appearances with the Rotterdam Philharmonic/Reinhard Goebel, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Hannu Lintu, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland/Peter Whelan and Pygmalion Ensemble/Raphaël Pichon.

Laurence began his formal training as a chorister with the Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, and won the title of BBC Radio 2 Young Chorister of the Year in 2009, subsequently making his solo debut at the Royal Albert Hall.

(2024/25 Season)