Andrew Tortise was a choral scholar at Wells Cathedral and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2002. He studied singing first with Ashley Stafford and now with Iris dell’Acqua.
Concert plans this season and beyond include Arnalta in Monteverdi L’incoronazione di Poppea with Academy of Ancient Music; Monteverdi Orfeo on a USA tour with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra and Sir John Eliot Gardiner; Elijah with the Bach Choir; Ode to St Cecilia and Brockes Passion for the Bilbao Handel Festival; Bach St Matthew Passion on a European tour with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment including Amsterdam and Paris and in Leipzig with the Gabrieli Consort; Beethoven Missa Solemnis with Ex Cathedra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and his Choral Fantasy at the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival and Haydn Nelson Mass in Amsterdam with the Britten Sinfonia.
Opera plans include returning to the Royal Opera, Covent Garden to sing Marzio in Mozart Mitridate and Vogelgesang Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, his debut at Theater an der Wien in a staged Bach Christmas Oratorio and returning to Dutch National Opera to sing Lurcanio in Handel Ariodante.
Recent highlights include The Spirit of the Masque in the new Richard Jones production of Britten Gloriana for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden; Peter Quint The Turn of the Screw for Lyon Opera; Novice Billy Budd and Janek The Makropulos Case for Netherlands Opera; David Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Ferrando Così fan tutte for Welsh National Opera and Lucano Poppea and the tenor arias in Bach St Matthew Passion for Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
Early opera appearances included Marzio Mitridate at the Salzburg Festival; Ferrando and roles in L’incoronazione di Poppea for Lyon Opera; Mernier Frühlings Erwachen at La Monnaie, Brussels and Robert in David Sawyer Skin Deep for Opera North and at the Bregenz Festival.
On the concert platform he has sung Bach Mass in B Minor with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Richard Egarr and at the 2014 Three Choirs Festival; Evangelist and arias in Bach St John Passion and Monteverdi Vespers with the Monteverdi Choir and Sir John Eliot Gardner; Mozart Requiem with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the LSO and Sir Colin Davis and with the orchestra and chorus of WNO; Britten Les Illuminations and Aufidio in J C Bach Lucio Silla with the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra and Ivor Bolton; Haydn Paukenmesse with the BBC SSO and Bernard Labardie; Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with Academy of Ancient Music and with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra; Evangelist St Matthew Passion in Lisbon; St Matthew Passion (arias) with the Residentie Orchestra and with the Gabrieli Consort and Players and Bach Christmas Oratorio with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
Andrew has appeared on tours with Sir John Eliot Gardiner singing Purcell, Bach and Monteverdi, with Richard Egarr and the Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment, Concert Spirituel and Hervé Niquet singing Messiah and with Marc Minkowski singing Damon Acis and Galatea. He has also appeared with the Combattimento Consort, Amsterdam and Netherlands Bach Society and has given recitals at the Aldeburgh Festival with Malcolm Martineau and in Bruges with Richard Egarr.