Robin Tyson (Counter-tenor)

Born: England

The English counter-tenor, Robin Tyson, was a choral scholar at King's College Cambridge before joining the Royal College of Music for post-graduate study.

Robin Tyson is becoming one of his generation's busiest counter-tenors, with recent concerts throughout Europe, in Japan and the USA, with conductors such as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Paul McCreesh, Robert King, Joshua Rifkin and James Judd. He has sung Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms in the 2000 BBC Proms with the BBC Singers, concerts of songs with the viol consort Fretwork, and J.S. Bach for the Gabrieli Consort in Portugal and Lichtenstein. Forthcoming concerts include George Frideric Handel's Messiah with Richard Hickox in the Barbican, concerts with the Netherlands Bach Society, singing Medoro in G.F. Handel's Orlando in Spain and France with Paul McCreesh, and a collaboration with Michael Chance in the Concertgebouw and other venues in the Netherlands. A disc of Bach Cantatas in Sir John Eliot Gardiner's yearlong project for DG has just been released. A keen exponent of contemporary music he appeared in the 1996 BBC Proms singing Gysrgy Kurtig, and in the 1999 Proms with the world premiere of Giles Swayne's Havoc.

In opera Robin Tyson has worked with René Jacobs in Cavalli's La Calisto at La Monnaie, Brussels, at the Festspielhaus, Salzburg, and in Barcelona, Lyon and Montpellier. He has worked for Flanders Opera in a double bill of Venus & Adonis and Dido & Aeneas in Antwerp and Ghent. He will soon sing in the premiere of the Czech composer Vladimir Franz's Ludus Danielis in the Czech Republic.

Source: King’s Singers Website
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (May 2001)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Jonathan Cohen

Alto

Member of Arcangelo:
[V-1] (2013): BWV 232

John Eliot Gardiner

Alto

BWV 83, BWV 125, BWV 200
BCP: BWV 8, BWV 17, BWV 27, BWV 35, BWV 40, BWV 45, BWV 47 (?),BWV 60, BWV 64, BWV 69a, BWV 78, BWV 86, BWV 87, BWV 89, BWV 91, BWV 97, BWV 108, BWV 115, BWV 117, BWV 126, BWV 133, BWV 135, BWV 136, BWV 137, BWV 161, BWV 166, BWV 178, BWV 181

John Eliot Gardiner

Alto

Member of Monteverdi Choir:
BCP Vol. 2: CD-1: BWV 2, BWV 10, BWV 76; CD-2: BWV 21, BWV 135
BCP Vol. 5: CD-1: BWV 178, BWV 136, BWV 45
BCP Vol. 6: CD-1: BWV 69a, BWV 137
BCP Vol. 7: CD-1: BWV 25, BWV 78, BWV 17; CD-2: BWV 50, BWV 130, BWV 19, BWV 149
BCP Vol. 8: CD-2: BWV 161, BWV 27, BWV 8, BWV 95
BCP Vol. 9: CD-1: BWV 148, BWV 114, BWV 47, BWV 226
BCP Vol. 12: CD-1: BWV 55, BWV 89, BWV 115, BWV 60
BCP Vol. 14: BWV 91, BWV 121, BWV 40, BWV 110
BCP Vol. 15: BWV 64, BWV 151, BWV 57, BWV 133
BCP Vol. 16: BWV 225, BWV 122, BWV 28, BWV 190
BCP Vol. 20: CD-2: BWV 18, BWV 181, BWV 126
BCP Vol. 21: CD-1: BWV 22, BWV 23, BWV 127, BWV 159; CD-2: BWV 182, BWV 1
BCP Vol. 24: CD-1: BWV 12, BWV 103, BWV 146; CD-2: BWV 166, BWV 108, BWV 117
BCP Vol. 25: CD-1: BWV 86, BWV 87, BWV 97

Links to other Sites

Robin Tyson - Countertenor (King’s Singers)
Robin Tyson - Counter-tenor (Allied Artists)
The King's Singers: Robin Tyson, Kontratenor [German]
Robin Tyson, countertenor [English]