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ABOUT TEDDY

Clearly a talent to look out for in the immediate and further future - Robin Bowman

In August Teddy will make his first performance at the Edinburgh Fringe festival as Bus 4/Giving/Durian in Lipote (Oliver Farrow) with Shaky Crown Collective. Recent performances include Florian Faber in the world premiere of Fame & Envy (Roger Simmonds) with Oxfordshire Contemporary Opera, The Mother Star in The Flowering Desert (Daniel Blanco) with Infinite Opera, and covering Barabashkin in Cherry Town: Moscow (Shostakovich) with Welsh National Opera Youth Opera.

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Roles at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire include Madame Beurrefondu in Mesdames de la Halle (Offenbach), Surgeon in Banished (McNeff), the dual roles of Father/Other Father in Coraline (Turnage), and Sir Thomas Bertram Mansfield Park (Dove).

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On the concert platform Teddy has proven himself to be a versatile and expressive performer, both as a soloist and in vocal chamber groups. Teddy has performed as the bass soloist in Messiah in and around Birmingham, extracts from William Walton Façade with Orchestra in the Shape of a Pear, and has made regular appearances in the Priory Early Music Series performing part songs by John Dowland and Henry VIII. 

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A keen interpreter of art song, Teddy was awarded first place in the John Ireland Prize and the Edward Brooks Lieder Prize at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 2022.

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Teddy studied at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with Paul Wingfield and Jonathan Gunthorpe.

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