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St David’s Hall International Concert Series 2016/17 ALEXANDER JAMES EDWARDS TENOR Born in Essex, ALEXANDER JAMES EDWARDS began singing as a chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral, continuing his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, later joining the Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Elsewhere, he has sung the title role in Albert Herring at the Salzburg Landestheater, Don Jose Carmen, Rodolfo La boheme and Pinkerton Madam Butterfly for Raymond Gubbay Ltd, Novice Billy Budd for English National Opera, Sempronio Lo speziale in Tel Aviv, Rodolfo La boheme for Lyric Opera, Dublin, and Festival Opera, Napier, Rinuccio Gianni Schicchi for Opera Holland Park, Ruggero La rondine for Iford Arts, Mr Erlanson A Little Night Music at the Thöätre du Chätelet, Pirelli Sweeney Todd and Tom Rakewell The Rake's Progress for the Gothenburg Opera, Roderigo Otello for the Opera Royal de Wallonie, Mas de Daumas Gassac The Lovely Ladies at the Buxton Festival and First Brother The Seven Deadly Sins for the Royal Ballet. Recordings and broadcasts include The Carmelites for Chandos and Friday Night is Music Night for BBC Radio 2. He made his BBC Proms debut in 2006, and his concert engagements have included performances with the Academy of Ancient Music, the BBC Philharmonie, the Brighton Philharmonie Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Halle, Huddersfield Choral Society, the Israel Camerata, the London Philharmonie Orchestra, he Mikkeli Symphony Orchestra, the Orion Orchestra, the Oxford Philomusica, the Royal Choral Society, the Royal Philharmonie Orchestra, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the Southbank Sinfonia and the Wexford Sinfonia. He has also been Featured Soloist at the Battle Proms and at the Leeds Castle Classical Open Air Concert and appears regularly in concert for Raymond Gubbay Ltd. Current engagements include Cavaradossi Tosca for English Touring Opera, Third Jew Salome for the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Foresto Attila at the Theater Lübeck, an Opera Gala with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra, The Puccini Scandal at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, and a wide ränge of concerts for Raymond Gubbay Ltd. In 2011, Alexander James Edwards was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music by the Governing body of the RAM for distinguishing himself in the field of Opera.
