Huw William Reynolds

Tenor

 

 

Email: Huw@huwreynolds.co.uk

Height:   5’10”

Nationality:        British

Birth date:         27/01/1978

 

Qualifications

2003-  Batchelor of Arts, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester

 

Teachers

1998 - Present Tony Roden

1997 - 1998      Rudolf Piernay

 

Performance History

 

For Den Norske Opera (The Norwegian National Opera) 2004- Present

Staged Performances: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Ambroggio), Otello, La Clemenza Di Tito, Der Rosenkavalier, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, Die Zauberflöte (in Norwegian), Fidelio, Den Fjerde Nattevakt, La Bohème, Manon Lescaut, La Traviata, Olav Tryggvason, Tosca, Julius Cæsar, Madame Butterfly, El Niño, Il Trovatore, Don Pasquale

Concerts: Peer Gynt, Requiem for victims of Nazi persecution (Kleiberg), Norwegian Independence Centenary Concert, Den Norske Opera New Year Concerts, Beethoven’s 9th symphony, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Den Norske Operas annual Christmas Concert, Dido & Aeneas

Ballet: Softly as I leave you – Paul Lightfoot & Sol Leon

2006 Djamileh – Bizet (Haroun) Opera South, Electric theatre, Guildford, UK

2005 Cavalleria Rusticana (Chorus) Trondheim Kammeropera, Norway

For Royal Northern College of Music 1999-2003

The Telephone – G.C.Menotti (Ben), Don Giovanni, The Messiah, Die Marterie – Louis Andreissen (1st Tenor) Manchester & Cheltenham International Contemporary Music Festival. Die Zauberflöte (1st Slave), Die Zauberflöte Arr. for Brass Ensemble (1st Slave) (World Premiere) Opera House, Buxton, Derbyshire. Into The Woods – S.Sondheim (The Steward), Jenufa

 

1999 National Youth Choir of Great Britain World Tour. South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Raratonga, Hawaii & USA.

1998 Chicago – Ebb & Kander (Billy Flynn) Grayshott Stagers, Grayshott Hall / Haslemere Hall, Surrey.

1997 The Mikado – Gilbert & Sullivan (Chorus) Haslemere Players, Haslemere Hall, Haslemere, Surrey.

1997 Singing in The Rain – G.Gershwin (Production Singer) Haslemere Players, Haslemere Hall, Haslemere, Surrey.

1996 Iolanthe – Gilbert & Sullivan (The Lord Chancellor) Bridewell Opera, King Edward’s School, Witley, Surrey.

1996 Lady Be Good – G.Gershwin (Chorus) Grayshott Stagers, Grayshott Hall / Haslemere Hall, Surrey.

1996 South Pacific – Rogers (Chorus) Haslemere Players, Haslemere Hall, Haslemere, Surrey.

1996 Council of Europe International Choir. Norway.

1995 National Youth Choir of Great Britain World Tour. Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, Raratonga, and USA.

1995 Die Drei Pintos – G.Mahler (Chorus) Opera Omnibus, Haslemere Hall, Haslemere, Surrey

 

 

Biography

 

Huw Reynolds is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, where he trained as a Tenor under Tony Roden.

 

He began his singing carer as a chorister at Lincoln Cathedral. From there he joined the Chapel Choir of King Edwards School, Witley and with the school’s Bridewell opera company, Huw played led roles in The Mikado, Iolanthe, and excerpts of Le Nozze Di Figaro. Whilst at school, Huw joined the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, performing in numerous concerts and two world tours in 1996 and 1999. He was also selected to represent the United Kingdom in the Council of Europe International Choir, at the 1996 European Educational Summit in Kristiansand, Norway. At home in Surrey, Huw was involved in various amateur dramatic and Operatic societies.

In 1998 Huw began a Bachelor of Arts degree at the RNCM, and appeared in many of the college’s productions including Janácek’s Jenufa, Andreissen’s Die Marterie, The Steward in Sondheim’s Into the Woods, 1st Slave in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (including the World premiere of Die Zauberflöte arranged for Brass Ensemble), and as Ben in Menotti’s The Telephone.

Upon graduating in 2003 he joined Carl Rosa Opera’s UK national tour of Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore.

He joined the chorus of the Norwegian National Opera in 2004 and became a permanent member in 2005.

Recently he appeared with Opera South (UK) as the principal role of Haroun in Bizet’s Djamileh.