Thomas Humphreys - Bass-baritone

Thomas Humphreys began singing as a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford and studied at the Royal Academy of Music and with Tim Evans Jones.

In opera, he has sung the title role in Don Giovanni for the Opera Holland Park Young Artist Programme, as well as returning for their 2018 season to sing the roles of L’araldo Maggiore (Isabeau) and The Wigmaker (Ariadne auf Naxos). He made his debut with Glyndebourne Touring Opera as Servo di Flora (La Traviata), as well as the role of The Captain (Eugene Onegin) for Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He has been critically acclaimed for his performance of Jake Wallace (La Fanciulla del West) for Grange Park Opera. He has also sung and understudied roles for Opera Holland Park, Buxton Festival Opera and English Touring Opera.

Thomas is in high demand on the concert platform, regularly performing with the premiere choirs and orchestras in the UK, notably the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, English Symphony Orchestra, the London Mozart Players and the City of London Choir. He recently made his Royal Festival Hall debut singing Requiem (Verdi) with the London Mozart Players. His repertoire includes Messiah (Handel), Elijah (Mendelssohn), St. John Passion (Bach), Christmas Oratorio (Bach), Ein deutches Requiem (Brahms), Requiem (Mozart), Requiem (Faure), The Creation (Haydn), Nelson Mass (Haydn), Five Mystical Songs (Vaughan Williams). He has also often performed further afield in France, Italy, Russia and Bulgaria.

Future plans include the role of Conte Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro for Dorset Opera Festival, Don Fabrizio in La Frascatana with New Chamber Opera in Oxford, a live concert recording of Philip Sawyers’ newly commissioned work ‘Mayflower on the Sea of Time’ with Kenneth Woods and the English Symphony Orchestra,  Requiem (Verdi) at the Sheldonian Theatre with the Oxford Bach Choir and St. John Passion (Bach) with the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra.

Thomas lives in West Dorset with his partner and two daughters. During the pandemic, he served as a response police officer for two years before returning to singing full time.