ANDREW ASHWIN
Andrew Ashwin, baritone, took up singing aged 17, and continued at the University of Birmingham, where he studied with Andrea Calladine. He currently receives singing lessons in London with Gilles Denizot and Russell Smythe, and he studies at the Royal College of Music at post-graduate level.
On stage Andrew has played both Figaro and Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, the title role in Don Giovanni, Germont in La Traviata, Marcello in La Bohème, Gremin in Eugene Onegin, Mr Trulove in The Rake's Progress and Micha in The Bartered Bride. Future engagements include Papageno in St Albans, King Arthur in Winchester and Beatrice and Benedict with New Youth Opera.
He has appeared as soloist with choirs including Cirencester Choral Society, Winchester Music Society, Sawtry Chorale, Antiphon, and Newcastle Bach Choir. He has also appeared with the acclaimed Birmingham choir Ex Cathedra for a BBC recording of Carmina Burana. During a unique Good Friday service he sang arias from Bach's St Matthew Passion in Southwell Minster. In the coming year he is to sing the St John Passion with Rogers Covey-Crump and Ely Choral Society, Handel's Messiah with Southend Bach Choir, and Saint-Saens' Christmas Oratorio in Woking.
Recently Andrew performed a series of solo recitals in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, as well as concerts in his home county, Northumberland. His interest in song spans a wide range of repertoire, including Schubert, Brahms, Fauré, Duparc, Poulenc, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Finzi, Vaughan Williams, Barber and Bliss.
Recently he took part in a masterclass with Dame Sarah Walker at the Royal College of Music, and future masterclasses include Mozart arias with Sir Thomas Allen and Quilter songs with David Owen-Norris.
