The tenor Laurence Kilsby joined the Académie of the Paris Opéra in 2022 and is also currently completing the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s Rising Star training programme. He studied singing at the Royal College of Music in London and at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He has received numerous prizes and awards, among them a bursary from the Kathleen Ferrier Society, first prize in the Wigmore Hall / Bollinger International Song Competition (2022), first prize in the Cesti Competition in Innsbruck (2022) and first prize in the competition Das Lied in Heidelberg (2023).
His future engagements will include his debuts at the Opéra Comique, the Cologne Opera and the BBC Proms, and a return to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.
Recent engagements have included Lucano / Soldato I / Famigliare II (L’incoronazione di Poppea) in Aix-en-Provence, Apollo / Pastore / Spirito (L’Orfeo) at the Nederlandse Reisopera and Henrik Egerman in Sondheim’s A Little Night Music for Opera North.
In concert his recent appearances include Bach’s St John Passion on a tour with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Mark Padmore.
Laurence Kilsby began his musical training as a chorister, and won BBC Radio 2’s ‘Young Chorister of the Year’ in 2009. He appeared as a treble soloist on numerous CD recordings, among them the Grammy-nominated recording of Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato with the Gabrieli Consort & Players under Paul McCreesh.
