Derbyshire-born baritone, Andrew Randall, has enjoyed a varied singing career since graduating his Master’s degree at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Throughout undergraduate study Andrew was an international in the sport of Archery—he narrowly missed out on a position at the 2012 Olympic games. Andrew has had an active career in choral music; he has held principal positions as a lay clerk at both Birmingham and Worcester Cathedrals; and has also performed with the renowned choirs Ex Cathedra, the Armonico, and the Lassus Consort.
During his studies, he performed lead roles in a variety of operatic works, whilst building a portfolio career of teaching and professional consort singing. Recent performance highlights include: Guglielmo in Mozart’s Cosí fan tutte, Count Almaviva in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, the title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Sid in Britten's Albert Herring, and Marcello in Puccini's La Bohème, Andrew also performed as the lead baritone in a small-scale tour for Opera North across their 2018 Autumn Season.
Andrew’s upcoming concert and operatic engagements include ensemble and cover work with Opera North (Verdi’s La Traviata; Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice; and Monteverdi’s Orpheus) and ensemble and cover work with The Grange Festival Opera (Verdi’s Macbeth; and Gilbert and Sullivan’s Yeoman of the Guard). Andrew will also perform Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs later in the year with the Kidderminster Choral Society, under Geoffrey Weaver.
As an active singer, both whilst at conservatoire and nationally, Andrew’s competition highlights include: winner of the Andrew Downes’ Contemporary Music competition; winner of the John Ireland Music prize; first prize in the Edward Brooke’s English Song prize; winner of the Ashleyan Opera Prize; runner up in the Mario Lanza Opera Competition; runner up in the Edward Brooke’s Lieder Prize; finalist in the Somerset Song Prize; runner up in the Cecil Drew Oratorio competition; second place in the Cameron Smith French song prize; and Andrew previously won a residential scholarship to the renowned international summer school in Oxenfoord, led by the inimitable Malcolm Martineau.
Andrew lives in Shrewsbury, is busy teaching singing at Shrewsbury School, and running three choirs across the midlands