Praised by The New York Times for his ‘alluring’ and ‘consistently excellent’ interpretations and by The Guardian for his ‘rich, mellifluous sound’, the countertenor Tim Mead read Music as a choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, before continuing his vocal studies at the Royal College of Music, London. During the 2021 / 22 season he sang Messiah with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, La Chapelle Harmonique, Royal Northern Sinfonia, and Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, the St Matthew Passion on a European tour with Collegium Vocale Gent, Mass in B minor with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, and Bach’s Stabat Mater with Arcangelo, as well as cantatas by Bach with La Folia Barockorchester and the Gabrieli Consort at the Wigmore Hall. He has recently sung Dardano (Amadigi) at Garsington Opera, Apollo (Death in Venice) at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Ulisse (Francesco Corselli’s Achille in Sciro) at Teatro Real, Madrid, Athamas (Semele) at Opera Philadelphia, Goffredo (Rinaldo) at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Endimione (Calisto) at Teatro Real, Madrid and Bayerische Staatsoper, Bertarido (Rodelinda) at Opéra de Lille and English National Opera, Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) at Opera Philadelphia, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and Bergen Nasjonale Opera, Hamor (Jephtha) at the Opéra national de Paris, the title role in Akhnaten and Ottone (Agrippina) at Opera Vlaanderen, The Boy and Angel 1 (George Benjamin’s Written on Skin) at the Bolshoi Theatre, and Arsamene (Cavalli’s Xerse) with Le Concert d’Astrée at Opéra de Lille, Theater an der Wien, and Théâtre de Caen. On the concert platform, he has appeared at the BBC Proms, as well as with Emmanuelle Haïm and Le Concert d’Astrée, Jonathan Cohen and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Harry Bicket and The English Concert, Robin Ticciati and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, among many others. Tim Mead has amassed a substantial discography