Biographies The London Theatre Voices
Andrew Tinkler - Bass / Baritone
was a chorister at Westminster Abbey and later studied at the Royal college of Music. Since 1991 Andrew has been a member of English National Opera {ENO} where he has sung many roles as well as his duties in the chorus.
At ENO he has sung the Shepherd in Pelleas, An Official in Barber of
Seville, Border Guard in Handmaids Tale, 2nd Mate in Billy Budd,
Officer in Boheme and Chief Soothsayer in Vestale. Also Sarastro and
Colline for the ENO Bayllis programme. Operatic roles include
Collatinus in The Rape of Lucretia, Pistol in Falstaff,the Abbot in
Curlew River, Gremin in Eugene Onegin, Ferrando in II Trovatore, Don
Magnifico in La Cenerentola, Commendatore and Masetto in Don Giovanni,
Sarastro and the Speaker in Magic Flute and Basilio in Barber of
Seville. Recent
oratorio includes Christus St. John Passion, Messiah, The Creation,The
Dream of Gerontius, Faure’s Requiem, Verdi’s Requiem, Rossini’s Stabat
Mater and L’enfance du Christ.
Andrew has featured on recordings, television and radio broadcasts and
has also sung with The Academy of Ancient Music, The Richard Hickox
Singers, The Addington Singers, The English Concert and The Ambrosian
Opera Chorus.
Recent
engagements include Superintendent Budd, Albert Herring, Opera de
Bauge, France and Sarastro, Magic Flute and Polythemus, Acis and
Galetea, Father - Coffee Cantata, and Basilio the Barber of Seville in St Albans Chamber Opera and Judas Macabeaus for Harpenden Choral Society. Last year he sang at the Globe in a production of the Tempest If
you listen carefully to the Charmin toilet roll commercial you will
hear Andrew singing the role of the Bear [ch ch ch ch Charmin' }. He also duets with Hugh Grant in Love Actually [very briefly}
Andrew is married to Anne and they have three reasonably behaved children Eloise, Stanley and Alf.
Andrew Tinkler Opera
Roles for ENO include
Chief
Soothsayer- Vestale.
Officer
- The Barber of Seville.
Border Guard - The Handmaids Tale.
Shepherd -
Pelleas and Melisande
Scynthius Princes Ida
Henchman-
Rigoletto
Hector
[off stage] Trojans
2nd Mate- Billy Budd
Russian-
Death in Venice
Guard- La Boheme
Roles\Covers
for Baylis ENO.
Colline
- La Boheme
Sarastro - The Magic Flute.
'Your Song'
- Schools project.
Bass solos Early Earth
Operas [cover]
Covers
for ENO include
2nd Armed Man/Priest - The Magic Flute.
Betto Di Signa-
Gianni Schicchi.
Ramballe- War and
Peace.
2nd
Prisoner- Fidelio
1st Policeman- Boris
Godunov
Nikitich-
Boris Godunov
The Notary-
Don Pasquale
Mayor- The
Force of Destiny
3rd Huntsman- King Priam
2nd Priest-
The Prisoner
Bosun-
Billy Budd
2nd
Commissaire- Carmelites
Rugby- Sir
John in Love
Guide-
Death in Venice
Small
cover roles in
Rosenkavalier, Boheme, The House of the Dead and Otello.
Operatic roles
include
Superintendent
Budd Albert Herring Bauge Opera [France]
Sarastro
Magic Flute St. Albans Chamber Opera
Sarastro
The Magic flute ENO
Bayllis
Polythemus Acis and
Galetea St. Albans Chamber Opera
Basilio The Barber of Seville English Pocket Opera
Basilio
The Barber of Seville St Albans chamber Opera
The
Waiter Not in Front of The Waiter St.
Albans Chamber Opera
Collatinus Rape of
Lucretia Opera East
Mefistofele
Mefistofele Leitmotif Opera,
Speaker and Armed Man Magic Flute Music Theatre Kernow,
Commendatore Don Giovanni New London Opera,
Pistol Falstaff Opera 70,
The
Abbot Curlew River
Prince Consort Opera,
Prince Gremin Eugene
Onegin Oxford University Opera,
Ferrando
Il Trovatore European Chamber Opera,
Don
Magnifico Cenerentola
Camberwell Pocket Opera
Don Magnifico
Cinderella Music Platform
Masetto
Don Giovanni Bernini Ensemble
Rocco
Fidelio The Whitehall Orchestra
Colline La Boheme ENO Bayllis
Andrew Tinkler
Oratorio
ORATORIO
REPERTOIRE
Bach
St John & St Matthew
Passions, Magnificat,
B Minor Mass, Coffee cantata, Christmas Oratorio
Dvorak
Stabat Mater, Mass in D
Elgar
Dream of Gerontius,
Coronation Ode
Faure
Requiem
Handel
Messiah, Solomon, Judas
Maccabaeus
Haydn
Nelson & St Nicholas
Masses, Creation, The Seasons
Mahler
Eighth Symphony (Pater
Profundis)
Mendelssohn
St Paul
Mozart
Requiem
Purcell
Fairy Queen
RossiniStabat Mater, Petite Messe
Solennelle
Schubert
Mass in G
Stainer
Crucifixion
Stanford
Songs of the Fleet
Verdi
Requiem
Andrew
Tinkler Film and TV
Film
and TV work
Advert TV [solo]
2002
‘Ch Ch Ch Ch Charmin’
Charmin toilet
roll
Advert TV [Quartet]
1999
'Say oo aa for Ambrosia’
Ambrosia
Adverts
Radio [Solo}
2002
'Ch Ch Ch Ch Charmin’
Charmin toilet roll.
Adverts Radio {Quartet}
1984/1999
‘12 days of Christmas’
Alka Selza
‘Say oo aa for Ambrosia’ Ambrosia
Chorus
TV
Age of hope - Peoples Century
Watership Down
Solo Film
2004
Love Actually
Good King Wenceslas
Duet - Hugh Grant and Andrew Tinkler.
Chorus Film
Hamlet
Babes in Toyland
The Peacemaker
Prince of Eygpt
The Man in the Iron Mask
Antz
Eldorado
Gladiators
The Visitors
Mission Impossible
Spy Game
Time Machine
My Life as a Fairy Tale
The Quiet American
Die Another Day
Pirates of the Caribbean
1/2/3.
King
Arthur
The
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Muppets Treasure Island
Captain Correllis Mandelin
The Mummy Returns
Tomb Raiders Lara Croft
Chocolat
Da Vinci code
The Island
How to Train Your Dragon
Shrek 3
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