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Andrew Ashwin
'Just for Fun' Adjudicator

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Andrew studied Music at the University of Birmingham, then post-graduate singing at the Royal College of Music, graduating with Distinction. He continued his opera studies at the International Opera Studio in Belgium and the Zurich Opera Studio, before spending one year singing many baritone roles at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Highlights of his international freelance operatic career include the title role in the Austrian premiere of Britten’s Owen Wingrave in Vienna, Mercutio in Opera Ireland’s Roméo et Juliette, Maximillian in Vlaamse Opera’s Candide, the title role in Lismore Music Festival’s Don Giovanni, Junius in Frankfurt Opera’s The Rape of Lucretia and Danilo in La Veuve Joyeuse, Montpellier.

Andrew has sung numerous concerts and recitals across the UK, Europe, and further afield, including Mexico City, Bangkok, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. He appears as a soloist on a number of opera and choral recordings, and he has sung much of the choral repertoire; highlights include Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem in Basel Cathedral, Handel's Jephtha in Oslo and Krakow and Mozart's Requiem at the Barbican, London. He is also in demand as a singer-pianist for functions and concerts.

For many years, Andrew was Musical Director of the Royal Academy of Music Chamber Choir (Junior Department). As a singing teacher and vocal coach, he is in high demand. He is a Fellow of the Royal Schools of Music (FRSM), and he currently co-leads the singing activities across Leicester Grammar School Trust. He is also an ABRSM examiner, which has taken him around the country and to the Far East.

Andrew is a long-distance triathlete and ultra runner, and in 2022, his children’s novel, Drumendus: Mission to the Drum Planet, was published.

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