Born in Hereford, Gwilym Bowen studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and London’s Royal Academy of Music. An Associate Artist of The Mozartists, he collaborates with major conductors and orchestras throughout the UK, Europe, North America and Australasia in opera and concert.

Highlights of his operatic career have included Flute in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Opéra de Lille; Snout in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lucano in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea and Eurimaco in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria for The Grange Festival; Valletto in L’incoronazione di Poppea for Angers Nantes Opera; and Piso in Reinhard Keiser’s Octavia for lautten compagney BERLIN.

On the concert platform, he has joined ensembles including Academy of Ancient Music, The English Concert, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Polyphony, The Sixteen, Vox Luminis, Les Ambassadeurs et La Grande Écurie, Insula Orchestra, Die Kölner Akademie, Concerto Copenhagen, Netherlands Bach Society, Baroque Collegium 1685, Music of the Baroque, Chicago, and Philharmonia Baroque.

He has also performed with orchestras such as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milan, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and Seattle Symphony Orchestra, his repertoire not only including the great works of J S Bach and Handel but Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for tenor, horn and strings and War Requiem.