Hailing from Monmouth, British-Irish tenor Andrew Henley studied at the University of Exeter, the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and is a graduate of the National Opera Studio. He is the winner of the 2025 Pendine International Voice of the Future Award at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, the 2019 Dunraven Young Welsh Singer of the Year and the 2023 John Scott Award from Scottish Opera.

 

Operatic engagements have included Idomeneo Idomeneo with Chelsea Opera Group, Camille de Rosillon Die Lustige Witwe with the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater, The Tenor Trauernacht, 
Tybalt Romeo und Juliet and Voleur de Lune Der Mond with Opéra de Lyon, Tamino The Mini Magic Flute with Opera North, Nemorino L’elisir d’amore with Brunswick Vocal Arts, Heinrich der Schreiber Tannhäuser with the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, The Son The Critic and Rodolfo in Puccini: Man of the Theatre with Wexford Festival Opera, Tybalt Roméo et Juliette with the Immling Festival, Tenor Soloist Play Opera LIVE!, Father Grenville Dead Man Walking and Candide (cover) Candide with Welsh National Opera, Officer and Armand (cover) Thérèse, Tenor Soloist on the Spring 2023 Opera Highlights Tour and Nemorino (cover) L'elisir d'amore with Scottish Opera, Don Ottavio Don Giovanni (cover) with the Glyndebourne Tour, Rodolfo (extracts) La Boheme with the Royal Opera House Learning + Participation, Steuermann Der Fliegende Holländer with Saffron Opera Group, Cavaradossi Tosca with Devon Opera,
Don Ottavio Don Giovanni with Clonter Opera, Novice Billy Budd with the
St. Endellion Festival and Lechmere
Owen Wingrave with British Youth Opera.

2026/27 engagements include
Chevalier de la Force Dialogues des Carmélites with Saffron Opera Group, Henry Crawford Mansfield Park with Opera Collective Ireland, Tenor Soloist in Family Concerts with Welsh National Opera, Der Bürgermeister Mario und der Zauberer with the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater, Tenor Soloist Carmina Burana with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Pinkerton (Access Performances and cover) Madama Butterfly with Scottish Opera.

 

Concert engagements have included Handel Messiah with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, Elgar The Dream of Gerontius at Snape Maltings, Mendelssohn Elijah with the City of London Sinfonia at Cadogan Hall, Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music with the CBSO at Birmingham Symphony Hall, Bach St John Passion tenor solos at Southwark Cathedral, Rossini Stabat Mater at St. Giles Cripplegate and Verdi Requiem at St. Paul's Covent Garden.

 

Andrew began singing at Monmouth School with David Lawson and Ian Dollins. After accepting a place at the University of Exeter to study English, he joined Exeter Cathedral Choir as a choral scholar, where he spent three years until graduating with upper second-class honours in 2012. Originally performing as a baritone, he made the transition to tenor after enrolling at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where he gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Music Performance (Merit) in 2014. He is a former lay clerk at Llandaff Cathedral.

 

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International Artist Management
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Patrick Allen
Connaught Artists
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