Biography
John Twitchen
London based tenor John Twitchen is a musical singer with a keen interest in both art song and opera. He completed his BMus in Vocal Performance at the Chichester Conservatoire with a first-class honours degree under the tuition and guidance of Ian Kennedy but also spent a year in the London College of Music with Anthony Roden. John was awarded the silver medal in the Ealing Music Festival.
Growing up in Sussex and Kent, John took part in the Hastings Music Festival as a boy treble and won first prize with honours in the unaccompanied folk song competition. He then went on to perform for another nine years with singing tuition from Louise Winter placing second and third in various classes and competitions in Hastings, Sevenoaks, Eastbourne as well as Woodbridge in Suffolk. John continued having lessons with Louise up until the pandemic.
John's most recent engagements included chorus in Beatrice di Tenda with London Bel Canto festival; tenor roles in Barefoot Opera’s Carmen; and chorus in Le Cid and La Boheme with Dorset Opera Festival.
Other roles include chorus in Roméo et Juliette with Riverside Opera in Kingston; Orpheus in Orphée aux Enfers with Chichester Conservatoire Opera; as well as chorus in Ceremony of Carols with Glyndebourne Youth Opera 3.