Source: askonasholt.com
Laurence studied as an ABRSM Vocal Scholar at the Royal College of Musicin London, and at the Curtis Institute of Musicin 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 Festwochender Alten Musik.
His opera engagements have also included the Festivald’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 deParis, 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 GarciaAlarcon, 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.
