Iestyn Davies studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge, where he was a choral scholar at St John’s College, before pursuing his vocal studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Since making his debut as Ottone in L’incoronazione di Poppea for Zürich Opera with Harnoncourt, operatic roles have included Armindo (Handel’s Partenope) for English National Opera; Ottone for Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Purcell’s King Arthur for New York City Opera and English National Opera; Hamor (Handel’s Jephtha) and L’Humana Fragilità and Pisandro (Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria) for Welsh National Opera; Voice of Apollo (Britten’s Death in Venice) for English National Opera; Azul (Nadaira’s Madrugada) for the Schleswig-Holstein Festival; Corrado (Vivaldi’s Griselda) in Paris and Oberon in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Houston Grand Opera. He has worked with directors including Warner, Mitchell, Alden and Flimm. He recently made his debut at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan in a concert performance of Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala under Dudamel. Appearances at the Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Concertgebouw, Snape Maltings and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées have included performances of Britten’s Canticles, Bach’s Mass in B Minor and Handel’s Messiah and Flavio. He has sung with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Academy of Ancient Music, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Matheus and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and he regularly works with conductors including Layton, Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Nagano, Alessandrini, Spinosi, Koopman, Hogwood and Bruggen. Recent recordings include Lukaszewski’s Via Crucis for Hyperion, Handel’s Messiah for Naxos with the Academy of Ancient Music and New College Oxford and Vivaldi’s Griselda for Naîve Records conducted by Spinosi, which won BBC Music Magazine’s ‘Opera Recording of the Year 2007’. Forthcoming engagements include the St Matthew Passion with the Zurich Tonhalle and Ton Koopman, Handel’s Athalia with Ivor Bolton in Cologne and New York, Samson with the English Concert and Harry Bicket, Bach cantatas with Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Israel in Egypt at the Hereford Three Choirs Festival with the Academy of Ancient Music and Stephen Layton, and his debut solo recital at the Wigmore Hall. Future operatic engagements include his Covent Garden debut as the Spirit in Dido and Aeneas and his debuts at La Scala, Milan and the Metropolitan Opera, New York.