Timothy Nelson gained a degree in Physiology from Cardiff University before studying at the Royal College of Music International Opera School.
There he was awarded the McCulloch Prize for Opera and won the Bruce Millar Gulliver Prize, the Joan Chissell Schumann Competition and the Gerald Moore Award Singers Prize.
He was also a Jerwood Young Artist at the Glyndebourne Festival.
Operatic experience includes Marcello in Puccini's La Bohème for Opera North, Nathan in the world première of Mark Simpson's Pleasure for Opera North/Aldeburgh/Royal Opera House, Sid in Britten's Albert Herring at the Grange Festival, Anténor in Rameau's Dardanus for English Touring Opera, Elviro in Handel's Serse for Opera Holland Park, Falke in Strauss's Die Fledermaus and Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen for Diva Opera.
Recent solo performances include Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man, Handel’s Messiah, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Haydn’s Creation, Bach’s St John Passion and the world première of Robert Taub’s Some Call it Home.
Away from singing, Timothy is an avid rugby and cricket fan and a keen golfer. He can often be found on the golf course trying to lower his handicap.
(Photo Copyright Olivia Da Costa.)
Haydn - The Creation
The creation of light, the heavens and earth