Tinuke Olafimihan was born in London and studied at the British National Opera Studio. She made her debut in Les Huguenots at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. She was subsequently invited to give a Young Artists’ Recital at Covent Garden and has since returned as Pamina and Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Ismene (Mitridate) and Clara (Porgy and Bess).

Ms Olafiminan’s international engagements include Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro) at Aix-en-Provence and De Nederlandse Opera, Dido (Dido and Aeneas) at the Opera Comique, Paris, Bess (Porgy and Bess) in Lisbon and Clara (Porgy and Bess) at Teatro Real Madrid.

Ms Olafimihan sang Nedda (Pagliacci) for New Sussex Opera and principal roles in La Baltasara and The Indian Queen at the Glasgow International Early Music Festival and Il Rappresentazione di Anima e Corpo at the London International Opera Festival.

Ms Olafimihan has performed at the Albert Hall, St John’s Smith Square, the Barbican, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Symphony Hall Birmingham and the Philharmonic Hall Liverpool, with conductors such as Sir David Willcocks, Carlo Rizzi, Nikolaus Hamoncourt, Andrew Parrot, Robert Shaw and Andrew Litton. She has made numerous recital, oratorio and opera broadcasts for BBC Radio and TV, Classic FM, Swiss, French, Brazilian, Turkish, Nigerian and Canadian Radio and TV. Her recordings include Maria (West Side Story) and Eliza Doolittle (My Fair Lady) on the JAY label.