Callum Thorpe
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Callum began singing as a chorister in Coventry Cathedral Choir before pursuing a scientific career, obtaining a PhD in Immunology from Imperial College London. Supported by both the Sir Thomas White Educational Foundation and the Josephine Baker Trust, he subsequently returned to music and studied on the opera course at the Royal Academy of Music, London with Mark Wildman, where he was awarded the Harry Fischer Memorial Prize, graduating with distinction in 2009. Callum was awarded the Glyndebourne on Tour 2009 Donald A Anderson Award, and currently studies with John Llewelyn Evans.
Operatic engagements while at the Royal Academy included Giove La Calisto, Figaro (cover) Le Nozze di Figaro (with Sir Colin Davis), Mylkin Cheryomushki, Pinellino Gianni Schicchi and Father/Prince in the world première of John Barber’s Rapunzel. Further operatic engagements have included Arthur/Officer 3 in Peter Maxwell Davies’ The Lighthouse (Dartington International Festival), Figaro Le Nozze di Figaro (Winterbourne Opera) and bass soloist in the world première of Errolyn Wallen's My Feet May Take a Little While (Grimeborn Festival) and Somnus/Cadmus Semele (Amersham Opera Festival), Pistol (cover) Falstaff and Masetto Don Giovanni, both for Glyndebourne on Tour. In a flourishing collaboration with Les Arts Florissants, Callum has performed The Fairy Queen on tour in Paris, Caen and New York with William Christie, The Indian Queen with Paul Agnew, Phobétor Atys and a series of concerts in France, Spain and the US entitled Le Jardin de Monsieur Lully, as part of Les Arts Florissants “Le Jardin des Voix” programme 2011. Callum has also participated in masterclasses with Jose Cura, Robert Tear and Dennis O'Neill.
On the concert platform Callum has sung much of the major oratorio repertoire and regularly performs both throughout the country and internationally; highlights include debuts at Tel Aviv Opera House, performing Handel Israel in Egypt with Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra under Laurence Cummings, and both Handel Esther and Acis & Galatea at the London Handel Festival. His concert repertoire further includes Bach St John Passion, Verdi Requiem, Mozart Requiem, Handel Messiah and Haydn Creation and Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle.
Engagements in 2011/2012 include Pluto in Charpentier’s La descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and Shepherd/Grace in Blow’s Venus & Adonis for Les Arts Florissants (Cohen), and Masetto for Garsington Opera and at the Birgitta Festival in Estonia. Subsequent engagements include Loudspeaker in Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis for English Touring Opera and Hippolyte et Aricie for Glyndebourne Festival.
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