Born
in Tregaron, Wales, Huw Rhys-Evans won the Blue Riband Prize for the Singer of the Year at the Royal
National Eisteddfod of Wales and on three occasions, the Tenor Solo Award.
Following studies with Kenneth Bowen at the Royal Academy of Music, he was
awarded the Tenor Prize at the 1990 Great Grimsby International Competition
for Singers and completed his studies at the National Opera Studio.
Huw Rhys-Evans is particularly celebrated as a singer of Rossini, his
engagements include Carlo/Goffredo in Armida, the title role Le Comte Ory
and Torvaldo from Torvaldo
e Dorliska at the Rossini in Wildbad Festival,
Count Almaviva from The Barber of Seville for Opera
North and Spier Opera,South Africa, Pilade
from Ermione, Idreno from
Semiramide for Chelsea Opera Group and Belfiore from Il Viaggio a
Reims at the Palace of Verseille and the Strasbourg
Music Festival. Other Operatic engagements have included Harris from Uncle
Remus for Pegasus Opera, Flute from A Midsummer Night's Dream and Brighella from Ariadne Auf Naxos for English Touring
Opera. Vivaldo form Die Hochzeit
des Camacho at the Flanders International Festival, Duca
Ottavio form Don Giovanni (Gazzaniga)
and Errico La Vera Costanza
for Bampton Classical Opera, (for the latter, he
was cited as amongst Who's Hot by OPERA NOW), Ferrando
Cosi Fan Tutte for Madrid
Comic Opera, Opera d'Automne and Tours Opera, Don Ottavio from Don Giovanni for Perth Festival Opera,
Belmonte from Die Entfuhrung aus
dem Serail for Opera
Project, Nadir from The Philosopher's Stone for Collegium Musicum
90 (broadcast on BBC Radio 3), Pang from Turandot
for Lyric Opera Dublin, Pong from Turandot for
Mid-Wales Opera, Brighella from Ariadne Auf Naxos
for the Norwegian State Opera, Young Servand from
Electra at the BBC Proms, First Jew from Salome for the Bastille Opera, Third
Jew from Salome for Merseille Opera, and Hyllus for Handel Hercules at the Varazdin
Baroque Festival Croatia with the Welsh Baroque Orchestra.
Huw Rhys-Evans made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2001 and is particularly
celebrated as an interpereter of the Evangelist in
the J.S. Bach Passions. His concert engagements have taken him throughout the
UK as well as to France, Germany, Italy, Canada, USA, The Netherlands and
Singapore. He has broadcast for BBC Radio 2's Friday Night is Music Night and
his recordings include Judge in Le Calife de
Bagdad, Gouvy Cantata Egill
and Stabat Mater, Vivaldo
in Die Hochzeit des Camacho and All Through the
Night ( Welsh songs with Harp). His latest
recording of 'Torvaldo e Dorliska'
by Rossini has just been released on the Naxos label.
Huw is
singing the role of Filippo in Haydn's Opera L'infedelita Delusa with Aix-en.Provence Touring Opera Company (Touring Europe) up to
March 2010.
Future engagements
for Huw Rhys-Evans include the following:
Opera Herts, Opera Gala, Handel Samson Folkestone Choral Society, Handel Messiah Stanmore Choral Society, Handel Messiah Freckleton Music Festival
