British Tenor Tom Kelly is a versatile and highly musical tenor, in demand for his expressive performances and deep interest in character and emotion. Beyond his extensive experience performing baroque and classical music, Tom has a love of contemporary music, reflected in numerous exciting engagements bringing characters to life and creating roles for opera and alternative performances.

Tom recently recorded the twin roles of Mormon 2 and Housemate 3 in Oliver Leith’s Last Days with The Twelve Ensemble for Platoon Records. Tom has created roles such as Emile L’Angelier for Surrey Opera’s production of the new opera Madeleine by David Hackbridge Johnson, and Barnaby Rudge for Martin' Bussey’s What the Dickens, at the St Marylebone International Festival. Another highlight was performing Schubert’s An die Musik for 7 hours without stopping as part of Ragnar Kjartansson’s eponymous work for London Contemporary Music Festival.

Baroque solo highlights include a tour of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 with Solomon’s Knot and Jonny Sells, culminating at Wigmore Hall, and Bach’s Matthäus-Passion with Dunedin Consort and Nick Mulroy. Tom was recently a soloist for Emmanuelle Haïm’s Le Concert D’Astree in a series of productions of French baroque music in Lille. Tom performs regularly as a soloist with Oxford Bach Soloists, recently with Stephen Grahl in performances of Weihnachts Oratorium and Easter performances of St John Passion, in Oxford and London, with Eamonn Dougan. Other solo baroque highlights include performances with Manchester Camerata, Platinum Consort and Huddersfield Choral Society.

On stage, Tom has been performing Handel’s Semele as part of Emmanuelle Haïm’s Le Concert D’Astree this February and spent last summer with Grange Park Opera, performing alongside Ailish Tynan and Bryn Terfel in Rachmaninov’s Aleko and Donizetti’s Daughter of the Regiment before a production of Rossini’s Barber of Seville at West Green House Opera. Highlights on stage include Don Ottavio (The Minack Theatre, Cornwall) and Tamino (Flat Pack Music) . Other highlights include opera productions of Berlioz (Les Troyens and Benvenuto Cellini) with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir, and Purcell (The Indian Queen) with Emmanuelle Haïm and Le Concert D’Astrée. 

As an ensemble singer, Tom performed with Grammy nominated ensemble Stile Antico for 5 years, touring Europe, USA and Canada, and South America regularly. He has also performed with a wide range of UK- and Europe-based professional vocal ensembles, including The Sixteen, Monteverdi Choir, BBC Singers, Collegium Vocale Gent, The Tallis Scholars and Gabrieli Consort with orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra. A recent highlight was a programme of Palestrina with Lionel Meunier and Vox Luminis. Tom was a chorister in St Paul’s Cathedral Choir for 6 years from the age of 7, and learned from the maestro John Scott. While there, Tom recorded the treble solos of Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with Marin Alsop and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, for Naxos.