IESTYN MORRISCounter-tenor
Iestyn Morris was a music scholar at Highgate School and sang Miles in the ENO production of THE TURN OF THE SCREW staged at Teatro La Fenice, Venice with Steuart Bedford. He subsequently joined the Junior Royal Academy of Music to study violin and piano and also developed his voice. As an undergraduate, he read Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bristol. Iestyn then went on to study on the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Andrew Watts. In 2003 he became a Britten-Pears Young Artist. He was the 2005 winner of the Tracey Chadwell Award for contemporary song and winner of the Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition in 2006.
In opera, Iestyn Morris performed Pisandro and Human Frailty IL RITORNO D’ULISSE and Ferdinand DUCHESS OF MALFI for English National Opera the title role in the English language premiere of Jonathan Dove’s THE LITTLE GREEN SWALLOW for the GSM&D, Max Labouchère in Roger Scruton’s VIOLET at the Guildhall Theatre Opera, Alessandro TOLOMEO, Spirit DIDO AND AENEAS, Shepherd ORFEO and Historicus JEPHTE for English Touring Opera, the new production of HERCULES for De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, the world première of both Anzi HOTEL DE PEKIN and Tom Boxer WAKE for Nationale Reisopera and Medoro ORLANDO FURIOSO for Theater Basel,
Iestyn Morris has appeared at Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Snape Maltings in concert repertoire including MESSIAH, Bach B MINOR MASS, Pergolesi STABAT MATER, JUDAS MACCABEUS, ST MATTHEW PASSION, THE FAIRY QUEEN, CARMINA BURANA, Bernstein CHICHESTER PSALMS with Philharmonia Voices, the Galuppi Quartet, the Choir of King’s College and Bournemouth Bach Choir & Orchestra, under András Schiff, Ronald Corp and Richard Egarr among others. He also gives recitals and regularly sings at Westminster Abbey and other major churches in and around the City of London including concerts with The King’s Consort.
Engagements 2012 include Anzi HOTEL DE PEKIN for Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and the world premiere of Jennifer Walshe’s DIE TAKTIK for Oper Stuttgart.
