Tim Morgan, countertenor
Opera - Concert - Recital
“The British countertenor creates an infinitely human Adam […] his diaphanous timbre is perfectly suited to conveying this gentleness […] the phrasing is fluid, the diction careful, the ornaments come effortlessly […] but it is in Già Veder that we appreciated him most for his breath and expressiveness.”
Baroquiades - Conti, La Colpa Originale, Festival Alte Musik Knechtsteden (translated from the French)
“In the leading role, Tim Morgan showcases a wonderfully agile and expressive countertenor”
British Theatre Guide - Handel, Amadigi di Gaula, English Touring Opera
“Tim Morgan was extraordinary in both of his big arias […] Morgan’s honey-sweet tone and an amazingly well-controlled pianissimo brought an overwhelming peace.”
Bachtrack - Handel, Israel in Egypt, Royal Northern Sinfonia
A member of the tenth edition of Les Arts Florissants’ Jardin des Voix, Tim is a Samling artist and was a finalist in the 2019 Kathleen Ferrier Awards. In 2023 he was honoured to sing at the coronation of King Charles III with The Monteverdi Choir and Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Tim’s recent opera and stage highlights include; Britten’s Death in Venice (Voice of Apollo) in his debut with Welsh National Opera, Handel’s Partenope (Cover Arsace) for English National Opera and (Armindo) with Les Arts Florissants, Francesco Conti’s La Colpa Originale (Adamo) with Dorothee Oberlinger and Ensemble 1700 at Festival Alte Musik Knechtsteden and Güldener Herbst festival, the title roles in Handel’s Amadigi di Gaula, Giulio Cesare, and Agrippina (Ottone) with English Touring Opera, Samuel Adams’s play Gabriel with The English Concert and Alison Balsom, Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oberon) Nevill Holt Opera.
On the concert stage, Tim recently gave a recital of Britten’s Canticles and arrangements of Purcell songs with Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake in Granada’s Alhambra Palace, appeared as a soloist in a film of madrigals by Monteverdi, and in a programme of Schütz and Schein with The Monteverdi Choir and Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Messiah with The English Chamber Orchestra and Nicholas Kraemer, and with Ensemble Polyharmonique at the Händel-festspiele Halle, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Stephen Layton/Polyphony, Handel’s Dixit Dominus with La Nuova Musica, Purcell’s King Arthur with Vox Luminis, and duet recitals with Michael Chance MBE.
Alongside his work in Classical music, his other projects include the singing on the soundtrack of a film ‘Saltburn’ (Dir. Emerald Fennell), collaborating with multimedia artist Young-Jun Tak in his work ‘Wohin?’, and recording for PJ Harvey’s 2023 album ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’.
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UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
Vivaldi’s Gloria and Verse anthems by Purcell with Paul McCreesh, The Gabrieli Consort and Gabrieli ROAR
O Jerusalem! - Crossroads of Three Faiths with Apollo’s Fire, directed by Jeanette Sorrell
Bach’s Mass in B Minor with John Butt and the St Endellion Festival Orchestra
Bach’s St John Passion with Andrew Arthur and the Hanover Band
‘Voi che udite il mio lamento’ from Handel’s Agrippina
‘Yet can I hear that dulcet lay’ from Handel’s The Choice of Hercules