Tenor

Andrew Gavin

Breathwork

Biography

Andrew completed his Masters in Music Performance at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in 2016, achieving First Class Honours under the tuition of Mary Brennan. He is also graduate of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, where he attained First Class Honours in English Literature. He also holds an M. Phil in Children’s Literature from Trinity College, Dublin. In 2016 he was awarded the PwC/Wexford Festival Opera Emerging Young Artist Bursary and is a former member of INO’s ABL Aviation Opera Studio. He is currently undertaking his doctoral studies at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and Trinity College Dublin. Operatic highlights include Tebaldo in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Fenton in Verdi’s Falstaff, Jupiter in Handel’s Semele, Pedrillo in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Tamino and Monostatos in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Arbace in Mozart’s Idomeneo, Acis and Damon in Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Mr McCarthy in the world premiere of Andrew Synnott’s The 47th Saturday, Junger Diener in Strauss’s Elektra, Don Curzio in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, M. Vogelsang in Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor, Telemachus in Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses, Ormindo in Cavalli’s L’Ormindo, Andrés, Cochenille, Pitichinaccio and Franz in Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, and the roles of Bob Doran, Mr Alleyne and O’Halloran in the world premiere of Andrew Synnott’s Dubliners.

May 2022