Soloists

British bass-baritone Tristan Hambleton studied at St John’s College Cambridge, Heidelberg Universität and the Royal Academy of Music, London. He is an Equilibrium
Young Artist for the 2023/24 season.

His opera roles include Envy and High Priest in The Indian Queen with Emmanuel Haïm and Le Concert d’Astrée at Opéra de Lille, Théâtre de Caen, De Vlaamse Opera and Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg; Priam
in Les Troyens with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique at the BBC Proms; Marchese d’Obigny in La Traviata for Opéra de Bordeaux; Madman/Witness 3 in Lessons in Love and Violence with George Benjamin and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra; and Father Truelove in The Rake’s Progress with Barbara Hannigan and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Amongst his future engagements are Captain Ross in Stuart McRae Anthropocene at Landestheater Salzburg and the premiere of Edwin Baudo La Victoire de Karima with the Choeur de L’Orchestre de Paris. Tristan has also sung roles for Glyndebourne, Welsh National Opera, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Nevill Holt Opera.

On the concert platform Tristan has performed with The Hallé Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, Le Banquet Céleste, The Hanover Band, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Collegium Musicum Bergen and Ensemble Correspondences and with conductors Mark Elder, Nicholas Kraemer, Marc Minkowski, Dinis Sousa, Damien Guillon and Sébastien Daucé.