Lyric bass Trevor Eliot Bowes was born in Victoria, Canada and studied at the University of Toronto, the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He is a former Britten Pears Young Artist and an alumnus of Barbara Hannigan’s Equilibrium Young Artists programme.
In the current season performances include Polifemo/Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (Early Music Society of the Islands); Bartolo/Le nozze di Figaro (The Mozartists); Antonio/The Marriage of Figaro (English National Opera); and Haydn’s Missa in tempore belli (Jurowski/London Philharmonic Orchestra).
Among his recent highlights are Alidoro/ La Cenerentola (Nevill Holt Opera); Polifemo/ Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (OAE/Valletta Baroque Festival); Seneca/The Coronation of Poppea, Father Trulove/The Rake’s Progress, Colline/ La bohème (English Touring Opera); Odin/The Monstrous Child (Royal Ballet & Opera); and Father Trulove/The Rake’s Progress (Münchner Philharmoniker).
Concert appearances include Mozart Requiem (Toronto Symphony Orchestra); Handel Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (OAE); Handel Messiah (London Handel Festival); Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols (Orchestra of English National Opera); Bach Cantata 71 (Toronto International Bach Festival); and Thief/ Peer Gynt (Royal Scottish National Orchestra).