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The English bass-baritone, Tristan Hambleton, studied at St John’s College Cambridge University, Heidelberg Universität Germany and the Royal Academy of Music London.
Tristan Hambleton has performed with leading orchestras including: the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Hallé Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia and Le Concert d'Astrée (Director: Emmanuelle Haïm). In venues including: Wigmore Hall, Usher Hall, Auditorium de Bordeaux, The Bridgewater Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. He has sung for companies such as: Glyndebourne Opera, Welsh National Opera, The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra de Lille and Opéra National de Bordeaux.
Tristan Hambleton's concert repertoire includes J.S. Bach's St John Passion (BWV 245), St Matthew Passion (BWV 244), Mass in B minor (BWV 232) and Magnificat (BWV 243); Haydn’s entire mass settings, The Creation, Die Jahreszeiten and Salve Regina; W.A. Mozart’s entire mass settings; Rossini’s Stabat Mater; Dvorak’s Stabat Mater; George Frideric Handel's Messiah, Samson, Solomon and Esther; L.v. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Missa Solemnis, and Mass in C; Purcell The Fairy Queen; Edward Elgar's The Apostles and William Walton's Belshazzar’s Feast.
On the operatic stage Tristan Hambleton's repertoire includes the title role in W.A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Colline in La Boheme, Masetto in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, Sarastro in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Re di Scozia in Ariodante, Somnus in Semele, Zuniga in Georges Bizet's Carmen, Balthazar in La Favorite, Dr. Truelove in Igor Stravinsky's The Rake’s Progress and Bottom in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Tristan Hambleton has appeared as Tom in Un Ballo in Maschera in a new production by Sir David Pountney and Carlo Rizzi for Welsh National Opera, created the role of Karl in the world premiere of David Bruce’s Nothing for Glyndebourne, Marullo in Rigoletto and Angelotti in Tosca for Oliver Mears’ productions at Nevill Holt Opera and Hermann Ortel in the Hallé’s concert performance of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg with Sir Mark Elder.
Concert engagements include W.A. Mozart's Requiem with the Hallé Orchestra, Haydn's Theresienmesse and Edward Elgar's The Apostles with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, J.S. Bach's
cantatas with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Messiah with The Hanover Band, G.F. Handel's Solomon with the London Mozart Players, Purcell's Odes and Welcome Songs with Le Banquet Céleste (Director: Damien Guillon).
Tristan Hambleton is an emerging artist for Oxford Lieder where he has performed Schubert’s settings of female poetry and Schubert’s Schwanengesang, he has toured Sweden with Schubert’s Winterreise, Purcell’s Orpeheus Brittanicus at Operá de Lille and has appeared as a guest recitalist at Blackwater Valley, Yorke Trust and Musique Cordiale.
Recent and Future engagements include G.F. Handel's Messiah with Marc Minkowski, Envy and High Priest in The Indian Queen at Operá de Lille with Emmanuelle Haïm and Le Concert d'Astrée, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence Mozart Residency, Marchese d’Obigny in La Traviata for Opéra de Bordeaux and Madman/Witness 3 in Lessons in Love and Violence with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Pilate in J.S. Bach's St John Passion (BWV 245) with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. As well as engagements at Théâtre de Caen, Vlaamse Opera Antwerp and Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg. Summer 2021 sees him sing Polyphemus in Acis and Galatea for the Vache Baroque Festival, Claudio in Agrippina for Royaumont and cover Kuligin in Kát’a Kabanová for Glyndebourne Festival Opera. |
