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Tim Mirfin, Bass

As an opera singer, Tim has sung in all major European countries, Australia, the US, Russia and the Middle East. He has performed major roles by Mozart, Handel, Britten, Puccini, Verdi and many others. Opera companies he has worked with include Hamburg State Opera, Theater an der Wien, Frankfurt Opera, Lyon Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Scottish Opera, Holland Park Opera and the The Bolshoi, Moscow.

 

He has a wide, varied concert repertoire ranging from the Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart and Verdi standards to rarities and premières. He has given concerts in the Vienna Musikverein, Amsterdam’s Conzertgebouw, Melbourne Town Hall, Royal Albert Hall,  Royal Festival Hall,  Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, Usher Hall, Edinburgh (for the Festival) and various cathedrals and churches throughout the UK. Conductors he has worked with include Sir Colin Davis, Sir John Elliot Gardiner, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Donald Runnicles, Martyn Brabbins, Edward Gardner, Robin Ticciati.

 

He read Law at Cambridge, studying postgraduate singing at the Royal Academy of Music and the National Opera Studio. He is also a qualified teacher of French and German.

 

Tim has now settled in rural Devon just outside Exeter, balancing looking after three young children, a dog and some chickens with doing up a house, teaching singing, setting up and running a local community choir and doing concerts.

 

Some of his first ever professional concerts were with the Derbyshire Singers and Tim is truly delighted to be working with them again.

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