ABOUT

27 year old tenor Aidan Atkinson is currently finishing a Masters degree in voice at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, studying with Owen Gilhooly-Miles and David Adams.

Born in London, Aidan has been singing in ensembles and solo since he was a seven-year-old treble. He won a place in the National Youth Choir age 11, and later was a singing student at the Junior Royal Academy of Music.

Aidan has enjoyed a range of choral and solo styles, sizes, periods and teaching methods. From Bach to Bernstein and from Mozart to Brittan and Viardot, Aidan loves to sing.

While studying Music at Oxford University, Aidan won a scholarship to sing in Christ Church Cathedral choir, as well as taking solo singing as his main focus.

He broadening his musical horizons while a student, recording everything from medieval polyphony (The Eton Choirbook Vol. 5, 2017) to Howard Goodall.

Aidan has gone on to sing regularly in Cathedrals in the UK and Ireland, and is in demand as a soloist.

Aidan made his stage premiere in the operetta 'The Gondoliers' at the Harrogate Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in 2022, with a company from Oxford. In 2023, he was in 'Le Nozze di Figaro', at the Sheldonian Theatre, with the Oxford Opera Society, playing the judge Don Curzio alongside Ben Gilchrist and Beth Fitzpatrick.

Under the tutellage of Ben Johnson, Aidan won a place that year to study voice at the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) where, in 2024, he took the lead role of 'The Prince' opposite Aimee Banks as 'Cinderella' in Viardot's Opera 'Cendrillon', under the direction of Helene Dinsdale and David Adams.

Also in 2024, Aidan successfully auditioned for the chorus of the Irish National Opera, and took solo roles with the Dublin City Choral Union and the Dublin Bach Choir.

He is looking forward to his next role: 'Conte Errico' in the 2025 production of Haydn's 'La Vera Constanza' at Dublin's Samuel Beckett Theatre. And to his first production with the INO.