Trained at the Paris Opera AcademyLaurence Kilsby studied singing at the Royal College of Music in London and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He was a member of the Paris Opera Academy during the 2022-2023 season.A recipient of the first session of the Lies Askonas Fellowship programme and the 2018 Kathleen Ferrier Society Young Singer Award, he won the 2022 Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition and the Cesti competition at the Festwochen der Alten Musik in Innsbruck. He has performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Opéra de Dijon, and the Cologne Opera, and will soon debut at the Festwochen der Alten Musik in Innsbruck and at the Glyndebourne Festival.Highlights of his 2024-2025 season include engagements at the Opéra national du Rhin and Opéra Comique, as well as concerts with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Reinhard Goebel, the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Hannu Lintu, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France with Leonardo García Alarcón, the National Symphony Orchestra of the Irish National Radio and Television with Peter Whelan, and Ensemble Pygmalion with Raphaël Pichon.Laurence Kilsby began his training as a chorister with the Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum and won BBC Radio 2’s Young Chorister of the Year award in 2009, before making his solo debut at the Royal Albert Hall.Debut at the Paris Opera

Laurence KilsbyTenor