Hailing from Monmouth, British-Irish tenor Andrew Henley studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and is a graduate of the National Opera Studio, where he was supported by the WNO Sir John Moores Award. 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 recipient of the 2023 John Scott Award from Scottish Opera.

 

Operatic engagements have included The Tenor Trauernacht, Tybalt Romeo und Juliet and Voleur de Lune Der Mond with Opéra de Lyon, Heinrich der Schreiber Tannhäuser with the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Tybalt Roméo et Juliette with the Immling Festival, 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, Barbarigo I due Foscari with Chelsea Opera Group, Barigoule Cendrillon with Buxton International Festival, Don Ottavio Don Giovanni with Clonter Opera, Novice Billy Budd with the St. Endellion Festival and Lechmere Owen Wingrave with British Youth Opera. 2024/25 engagements include The Son The Critic and Rodolfo in Puccini: Man of the Theatre with Wexford Festival Opera, Vitek (cover) The Makropulos Affair with Scottish Opera, Camille de Rosillon Die Lustige Witwe with the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater, Steuermann Die Fliegender Holländer with Saffron Opera Group and Nemorino L'elisir d'amore with Brunswick Vocal Arts.

 

Concert engagements have included Mendelssohn Elijah at Cadogan Hall with the City of London Sinfonia, an opera highlights concert with the WNO Orchestra conducted by Carlo Rizzi at BBC Hoddinott Hall, Mozart Mass in C Minor at Wells Cathedral, Verdi Requiem at St. Paul's Covent Garden, Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music and Purcell The Fairy Queen, conducted by Nicholas McGegan, both with the CBSO at Birmingham Symphony Hall. This season’s concerts include Rossini Stabat Mater at St Giles Cripplegate, Bach St John Passion tenor solos at Southwark Cathedral and Handel Messiah at the Royal Festival Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra.

 

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.

 

Andrew is represented by Patrick Allen at Connaught Artists.