John Twitchen is a versatile tenor who particularly enjoys performing opera and oratorio, and has extensive experience as a choral and ensemble singer. He has collaborated with various ensembles in London, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, and the Southeast, including I Fagiolini, Orchestra of St John’s, Gesualdo Six, St Martin’s Voices, and Academy of English Voices. He is a regular soloist with Armonico Consort, Billingshurst Choral Society, Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra, and Mosaic Voices at the New West End Synagogue. As an operatic tenor, John has performed roles with opera companies across the UK, including Longborough Festival Opera, Opera Southeast, Dorset Opera, Carshalton Opera, Riverside Opera, Ensemble OrQuesta, and London BelCanto Festival.

As a young baritone, John was a member of Glyndebourne Youth Opera 3 for three years while studying music at Sussex Downs College, Lewes, before transitioning to tenor and graduating from the Chichester Conservatoire with a first-class BMus in Vocal Performance. He then became a choral scholar at St Martin in the Fields, before joining the Sloane Square Choral Society Scholarship Program sponsored by the Royal Ballet & Opera. He now works in London as a freelance musician and a transcription artist.

John has performed various operatic roles, including Nemorino in L’Elisir D’Amore, Rodolfo in La Boheme, Remendado in Carmen, Alfredo in Die Fledermaus and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni. He had the pleasure of singing Vassal in Wagner’s Ring Cycle with Longborough Festival Opera, and joined the Dorset Opera Summer School for three years performing Eugine Onegin, Verdi’s Macbeth, Rossini’s Le Comte Ory, Gounod’s Faust and Massenet’s Le Cid. He also performed for the late Kathryn Harris in the National Opera Studio. He is also an experienced oratorio singer, and has worked with choral societies in London, Oxfordshire, Newcastle and the Southeast. Roles include Evangelist in Bach’s St John’s Passion, Elijah in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Uriel in Haydn’s Creation, Jesus in Beethoven’s Christus am Ölberge and tenor solos in Stainers Crucifixion, Puccini’s Messa Di Gloria, Mozart’s Requiem and Grand Mass, and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle.