Raised in Derbyshire, bass-baritone Edward Jowle is a postgraduate at the Royal College of Music, studying with Russell Smythe and Gary Matthewman. A 2019/20 Samling Scholar, he is supported by the Drake Calleja Trust, the Josephine Baker Trust and holds the RCM Rose Williams Scholarship.
Recent operatic roles include Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Elviro (Serse), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Lord Dunmow (A Dinner Engagement), Snug (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Falke (Die Fledermaus), Gendarme (Les Mamelles de Tirésias), Alidoro (La Cenerentola), Cecil (Maria Stuarda) and Adonis (Venus and Adonis).
Concert highlights include Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s B Minor Mass, Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ, Finzi’s Let us Garlands bring, Tarney’s St Mark Passion, Mozart’s Requiem and Elgar’s The Apostles.
He has also appeared as an actor in Chekhov works and has worked with conductors including Martyn Brabbins and Natalie Murray Beale, and directors such as Iqbal Khan and Rodula Gaitanou. He has taken part in masterclasses with Gerald Finley and Thomas Quasthoff.
He makes his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.