IestynDavies

An esteemed interpreter of Handel, this season Iestyn sings Didymus in Theodora at Teatro Real Madrid and with Music of the Baroque, Chicago; David in Saul at the Glyndebourne Festival; Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno and Dixit Dominus with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Emmanuelle Haim, Messiah with les Violons du Roy and Bernard Labadie and Handel arias on tour with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Robin Ticciati.

He will tour Monteverdi's Poppea with Cappella Mediterranea and Leonardo Garcia Alracon in Europe, and J.C. Bach, Scheidt, Schein, Buxtehude and more with Fretwork in the U.S. and Canada.

In the 2023/24 season he sang Bertarido in Rodelinda on tour in the U.S.A. and Asia with Harry Bicket and The English Concert, made his role debut at the Paris Opera as Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare, sang Oberon in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream with Atlanta Opera and at Garsington Opera, and the Boy in George Benjamin's Written on Skin with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. In August he made his Australian debut singing singing J.S. Bach and Arvo Pärt in an extensive solo tour with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

Iestyn has appeared for a season on Broadway in a revival of his West-End theatre project Farinelli and the King with Mark Rylance, which received an Olivier Award nomination.

A celebrated recitalist with repertoire ranging from Dowland to Clapton, he has twice been awarded the Gramophone Recital Award. In 2017 he won the Gramophone Baroque Vocal Award and was awarded an MBE by the Queen for his services to Music.