Hereford-born tenor Anthony Gregory was the 2010 Independent Opera Vocal Scholar at the Royal College of Music International Opera School (RCMIOS) supported by the Josephine Baker Trust, the Elmley Foundation and in 2009 was a recipient of an Ian Fleming Award administered by the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund. In April 2011 Anthony won the prestigious Lies Askonas Prize at the RCM. He was also selected to represent the Royal College of Music’s Opera department in the “Rising Stars” Chamber Concerts held at London’s Cadogan Hall in spring 2011.

Anthony is currently studying with Tim Evans-Jones and was a Jerwood Young Artist for 2010 at Glyndebourne Festival Opera. In September 2011 Anthony commenced a year of study at London’s prestigious National Opera Studio where he will study closely the roles of Male Chorus Rape of Lucretia, Ernesto Don Pasquale and Nemorino L’elisir d’amore.

Anthony’s most recent operatic roles include Ferrando Così fan tutte (RCMIOS) and Grimoaldo Rodelinda (RCMIOS and London Handel Festival, conducted by Laurence Cummings), Tamino Die Zauberflöte, Jupiter Semele (Bath University), Pasek The Cunning Little Vixen (RCMIOS), Lysander A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera de Baugé), Oronte (cover) Alcina (ETO), Silvio Il Pastor Fido with the RCMIOS and London Handel Festival, Novice (cover) Billy Budd (Glyndebourne) and The Hussar Mavra (Jerwood Young Artist programme, Glyndebourne). In summer 2010 he covered the role of Peter Quint Turn of the Screw for Glyndebourne.

Concert performances include his recent debut with the Classical Opera Company in Alfred the Great (Arne) at Kings Place and the New London Orchestra at Cadogan Hall, Mozart Mass in C with the Hertfordshire Chamber Orchestra at St. Albans Abbey, as well as a concert at the Elgar Room (Royal Albert Hall). Other oratorio and concert appearances include Acis and Galatea and Judas Maccabaeus with Epsom Choral Society, Monteverdi’s Vespers with the Armonico Consort, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Handel’s Messiah with the Bath Bach Choir, Bach’s Magnificat with the London Pro Arte Choir, Mendelssohn’s St Paul and Bach's St. Matthew Passion (Evangelist) with the Festival Chorus and the Sinclair Sinfonia.

Anthony’s engagements in 2011/12, alongside his National Opera Studio commitments, include Purcell The Fairy Queen for English Touring Opera; Schubert’s Rosamunde with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Haydn St Nicholas Mass and Britten St Nicholas for the St Luke’s Music Society; Bach St John Passion in Hereford Cathedral; the launch of a new recording of Chilcott’s Requiem in Wells Cathedral; and the title role Lucio Silla for the Classical Opera Company. In the summer of 2012 he will sing the tenor role in Rossini’s Il cambiale matrimonio for the Aix-en-Provence Festival Académie. This will be performed at the main Festival and will then tour through France and Europe. Plans for 2012 include his English National Opera debut as Young Sailor Julietta, Messiah in Wells Cathedral, his debut with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Ferrando Così fan tutte for ETO.

 Anthony Gregory is represented by Intermusica.
April 2012 (479 words). Not to be altered without permission. Please destroy all previous biographical material.

Patient / Purcell Fairy Queen
English Touring Opera / cond. Joseph McHardy, dir. Thomas Guthrie
“Anthony Gregory, one for the four patients, seemed destined for a notable career.”
Hugh Canning, Opera, November 2011

“Anthony Gregory revealed a bright lyric tenor and impeccable stylistic instincts in his brief solos.”
Hugh Canning, The Sunday Times, November 2011

“I was sorry that tenor Anthony Gregory’s solo vocal contributions were so few and brief, for he clearly possesses a very fine instrument indeed and is worth looking out for in future productions.”
Dominic Wells, Opera Britannia, November 2011

“It would be invidious to single out anyone from a truly first-rate ensemble, but I was hugely impressed by tenor Anthony Gregory, who makes the most out of a comparatively small part: his light yet steely tenor is hugely exciting to hear – success as an haut-contre surely beckons – and his duet ‘Let the fifes and the clarions’ with countertenor Michal Czerniawski was the vocal highlight of the show.”
Adrian Horsewood, What’s On Stage, November 2011

Ferrando / Mozart Così fan tutte
Benjamin Britten International Opera School, Royal College of Music / cond. Michael Rosewell, dir. Lee Blakeley
“Anthony Gregory [was] a promising, sweet-toned Ferrando”
Robert Thicknesse, Opera Now, December 2011