GILES TOMKINS

BASS-BARITONE

RESUME

OPERA

2023

Fifth Jew (Salome)

2022

Sciarrone (Tosca)
Sarastro (Magic Flute)†

2020

Zuniga (Carmen)

Zuniga (Carmen)

2019

Colline (La Bohème)

Dr. Grenvil (La Traviata)

Don Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)

2018

Don Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)

Dr. Grenvil (La Traviata)

Khodozat (The Overcoat)

2017

Orest’s Tutor (Elektra)

Sciarrone (Tosca)

O’Donaghue/Osler† (Louis Riel)

2016

Gandalf (The Hobbit)

Timur (Turandot)

Don Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)

Snug (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

Hubbard/Curtiss (The Bells of Baddeck)

2015

Konchak (Prince Igor)

Don Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)

Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor)

Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor)

2014

Angelotti (Tosca)

Leporello/Commendatore (Don Giovanni)

Colline (La Boheme)

2013

Superintendent Budd (Albert Herring)

 

2012

Colline (La Boheme)

Oberto (Oberto)

Sergeant of Police (Pirates of Penzance)

2011

Colline (La Boheme)

Dr. Grenvil ( La Traviata)

Marbuel (The Devil and Kate)

2010

Achilla ( Guilio Cesare)

Colline (La Boheme)

2009

A Mummer's Masque

Pedro (Iñes)

Colline (La Bohème)

Dr. Grenvil (La Traviata)

Cold Genius (King Arthur)

2008

Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro)

Pistola (Falstaff)

2007

Don Basilio (Il Barbière di Siviglia)

Don Alfonso (Così Fan Tutte)

Father/Don Paulo (The Shadow)*

2006

Big Billy Brett (Elijah’s Kite)

Usher (The Midnight Court)

Colline (La Bohème)

 

 

Strauss

 

Puccini
Mozart

 

Bizet

Bizet

 

Puccini

Verdi

Rossini

 

Rossini

Verdi

Rolfe/Panych

 

Strauss

Puccini

Somers

 

Burry

Puccini

Rossini

Britten

MacDonald/Burry

 

Borodin

Rossini

Donizetti

Donizetti

 

Puccini

Mozart

Puccini

 

Britten

 

 

Puccini

Verdi

Gilbert & Sullivan

 

Puccini

Verdi

Dvorak

 

Handel

Puccini

 

Dean Burry

Rolfe

Puccini

Verdi

Purcell

 

Mozart

Verdi

 

Rossini

Mozart

Daniel

 

Rolfe

Sokolovic

Puccini

 

 

Canadian Opera Company

 

Edmonton Opera
Canadian Opera Company

 

Manitoba Opera (postponed due to pandemic)

Manitoba Opera

 

Against the Grain Theatre

Pacific Opera Victoria

Manitoba Opera

 

Opera5

Edmonton Opera

Canadian Stage, Tapestry Opera, Vancouver Opera

 

Edmonton Opera

Canadian Opera Company

Canadian Opera Company

 

Canadian Childrens Opera Company

Edmonton Opera

Pacific Opera Victoria

Pacific Opera Victoria

Baddeck, Nova Scotia

 

Voicebox:Opera in Concert

Opera Lyra Ottawa

Pacific Opera Victoria

Edmonton Opera

 

Opera Lyra Ottawa

Vancouver Opera

Manitoba Opera

 

Pacific Opera Victoria

Vancouver Opera

 

Kingston Symphony Orchestra*

Opera in Concert, Toronto

Vancouver Opera

 

Pacific Opera Victoria

Vancouver Opera

Opera in Concert, Toronto

 

COSI, Sulmona, Italy

Highlands Opera Studio, Haliburton

 

Toronto Masque Theatre

Queen of Puddings Music Theatre

Saskatoon Opera

Pacific Opera Victoria

Toronto Masque Theatre

 

Opera Lyra Ottawa

Scottish Opera, Glasgow

 

Scottish Opera

Tanglewood Music Festival

Tapestry New Opera

 

Tapestry New Opera

Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre

Scottish Opera

* In Concert

† Cover

 

Beethoven

 

Handel
Handel

Bach/Handel/Vaughan Williams


Wolf/Bennett

Mozart

Gilbert & Sullivan

 


Handel

Handel

Beethoven

 

Dvorak

Mozart

Handel

Bach

 

Handel

Beethoven

Handel

 

Handel

Handel

 

Rossini

Mendelssohn

 

J.S. Bach

Beethoven

Beethoven

Dvorak

 

Various

 

Handel/Barber

Berlioz

Handel

 

Bach

 

Mozart

 

Rossini

Handel

 

Alvarez, Sokolovic

 

 

David Mott

 

Handel

Mott

Bach

Various

Handel

Various

Handel

Beethoven

Mendelssohn

Various

 

Ibert

Bach

Beethoven

 

Handel

Handel

Purcell

ORATORIO & CONCERT

2023

Missa Solemnis

2022

Messiah
Messiah

"Joy to the World”


2020

"Hugo & Willie: Songs of the Soul"

Solemn Vespers

"Topsy Turvy"


2019

Messiah

Messiah

Mass in C

2018

Stabat Mater

Requiem

Messiah

Peasant Cantata

2017

Dettingen Te Deum

Ninth Symphony

Messiah

2016

Messiah

Messiah

2015

Petite Messe Solennelle

Elijah

2014

St. John Passion

Ninth Symphony

Ninth Symphony

Requiem

2012

"30th Anniversary Gala Concert"

2011

"Solace"/Dover Beach

Damnation of Faust

Messiah

 

Christmas Oratorio

2010

Mass in C Minor

 

Petite Messe Solennelle

Messiah

 

Soundstreams with Tambuco Percussion

 

2009

Jazz Creation

2008

Messiah

A Jazz Creation

St. John Passion

"Blessed Cecilia"

Messiah

"Parnassus on Elm Street"

Judas Maccabaeus

Mass in C

Elijah

"Parnassus of Elm Street"

2007

Quartre Chansons de Don Quichotte

St. John Passion

An Die Ferne Geliebte

2006

Messiah

Messiah

King Arthur

 

Orpheus Choir & Chorus Niagara

 

Hamilton Philharmonic
ChoralWorks

Thirteen Strings



Confluence Concerts

Mississauga Choral Society

Chorus Niagara/Niagara Symphony (cancelled due to pandemic)

 

Regina Symphony Orchestra

Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra

Bach Elgar Choir

 

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Regina Symphony Orchestra

Elmer Iseler Singers

Toronto Masque Theatre

 

Karen Schuessler Singers

Durham Youth Orchestra

London Symphonia

 

Regina Symphony Orchestra

Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra

 

Bach Elgar Choir, Hamilton

Vancouver Bach Choir

 

Thirteen Strings, Ottawa

Peterborough Symphony

Symphony New Brunswick

Chorus Niagara/Orpheus Choir

 

Aldeburgh Connection

 

Thirteen Strings, Ottawa

Vancouver Bach Choir

Symphony Nova Scotia

Aradia Ensemble

Windsor Symphony Orchestra

 

King Edward Choir, Barrie

London Fanshawe Chorus

Cellar Singers, Orillia

Elmer Iseler Singers

Bach Elgar Choir

Cervantino Festival, Mexico

Koerner Hall, Toronto

 

Mississauga Choral Society

 

Peterborough Singers

Mississauga Choral Society

Toronto Bach Consort

Aldeburgh Connection

Toronto Classical Consort

Aldeburgh Connection

Masterworks of Oakville

Guelph Chamber Choir

Georian Bay Concert Choir

Aldeburgh Connection

 

Off Centre Music Salon

Georgian Bay Concert Choir

Off Centre Music Salon

 

Chorus Niagara

International Symphony

Britten-Pears Baroque Orchestra

 

Dean Burry

 

Vivaldi

Beethoven

Various

 

Various

Handel

 

Vivaldi

Rameau

 

Charpentier

RECORDINGS

2014

Uncle Wesley (Baby Kintyre)

2007

Gualtiero (La Griselda)

"Beethoven? Beethoven!"

An die Ferne Geliebte

2006

"And So It Goes:

Mago (Rinaldo)

2004

Dixit Dominus

Jupiter (Castor et Pollux)

2003

Messe de Minuit

 

Centrediscs

 

Naxos, Opera In Concert/Aradia Ensemble

DoReMi, Universal Music Canada

Boris Zarankin, piano

 

Opening Day

Naxos, Opera In Concert/Aradia Ensemble

 

Naxos, Aradia Ensemble

Naxos, Opera In Concert/Aradia Ensemble

 

Naxos, Aradia Ensemble

EDUCATION

2003-05

University of Toronto, Faculty of Music Graduate Opera Masters Degree, Richard Bradshaw Graduate Fellowship in Opera

2005

Canadian Opera Volunteer’s Committee Distinguished Graduate Award

Canada Council for the Arts