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. 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 Camille Die Lustige Witwe with the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater, 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, The Son The Critic and Rodolfo in Puccini: Man of the Theatre with Wexford Festival Opera, 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, Rodolfo (extracts) La Boheme with the Royal Opera House Learning + Participation, 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. 2025/26 engagements include Nemorino L’elisir d’amore with Brunswick Vocal Arts, Steuermann Der Fliegende Holländer with Saffron Opera Group, Tenor Soloist (cover) The Big Opera Mystery with Opera North and Tenor Soloist Play Opera LIVE and Emlyn (cover) Blaze of Glory with Welsh National Opera, while concerts include Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius at Snape Maltings.

 

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

 

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.

 

General Management: 

Torsten Kerl
International Artist Management
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Patrick Allen
Connaught Artists
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