Northern Irish tenor Andrew Irwin is currently a member of the ensemble at Stadttheater Bremerhaven for whom he has sung the title role/Orphée aux Enfers, Link Larkin/ Hairspray, Malcolm/Macbeth and Dr Richardson/Breaking the Waves as well as roles in The Tales of Hoffmann, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Viktoria und ihr Husar and the Emperor of Atlantis.
Elsewhere he has sung Cecil/Roberto Devereux (Welsh National Opera); Telemaco/ Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Longborough Festival Opera); and an Opera Highlights tour for Scottish Opera. His engagements have also included Christoph in Maxwell Davies’ Kommilitonen! with Welsh National Youth Opera, Conte Almaviva in Paisiello’s Il barbiere di Siviglia with Junge Mitteldeutsche Kammeroper, Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni and Die Knusperhexe/Hänsel und Gretel with the Leipzig Sommerorchester.
Andrew has recorded Irish songs for BBC Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Opera and Irish, English and German songs with Ruth McGinley, piano.
Following his studies at Chetham’s School of Music and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Andrew completed his training at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Leipzig.