Kevin Kyle

Kevin Kyle began his career in music theatre singing the role of Passarino in Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera. After graduating with First Class Honours in Music from Huddersfield University, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he studied with Joy Mammen and Antony Saunders on the renowned Opera Course.

Whilst studying at the Royal Academy of Music Kevin received the EMI Award, the British Land Award, the Norah Mary Turner Prize and the Kendall Prize. He successfully completed the Opera Course in 2004, passing with Distinction.

Kevin was a finalist in the 2004 Handel Singing Competition and made his Proms debut in 2005 under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Incorporating performances around the UK and Europe, Kevin’s operatic experience includes performances for the Longborough Festival Opera, Opera Works, the Early Music Company, Le Concert d’Astree and the Armonico Consort. In 2007 he toured the USA and Canada with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, singing the role of Frederic in the company’s production of The Pirates of Penzance.

In addition to traditional classical repertoire Kevin enjoys performing contemporary music, and his repertoire includes works by John Cage, Richard Allain and Giles Swayne. In 2007 Kevin took on a main role in War Oratorio, a film by James Kent commissioned by Channel 4 with libretto by Michal Symmons Roberts and music by composter Dominic Muldowney.

Kevin has performed regularly on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM and has recorded for Sony BMG and BBC Television. Future projects include performances of the title role in Handel’s Samson and a UK recital tour of English and German song cycles including works by Robert Schumann, William Lloyd Webber and Benjamin Britten.

Kevin is currently working with The Opera Group on Varjak Paw, a new opera by Julian Philips, in which he will perform the Tenor role, Lugar - Black Catplus. Later this year Kevin will release an album of an original Carl Herring arrangement for Guitar and Tenor of Schumann’s masterpiece Dichterliebe recorded on the JCL Records label.