Laurence Kilsby
Tenor
Noted in The Times as “a young singer to watch”, Laurence Kilsby is currently a member of the Académie at Opera National de Paris for the 2022/23 season. He was recently awarded first prizes at the 2022 Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition and the 2022 Cesti Competition at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik. This season sees Laurence in a revival of L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Royal Opéra of Versailles, the Paris Opera Académie’s production of La Scala di Seta at the Théâtre Athénée, as well as various recitals in Paris, Venice, Heidelberg and Saarbrücken. An alumnus of the the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Renée Fleming’s SongStudio at Carnegie Hall, the Curtis Institute of Music and the Royal College of Music (in which during his studies, he received the Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Young Singers), he regularly studies under tenor, Jack LiVigni.