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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' }.
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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

Rossini
Stabat 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     
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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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