Alex Banfield
Alex Banfield is a British opera and concert tenor.Banfield grew up in Morpeth, Northumberland, and performed in local choral and operatic productions in Northern England in his early twenties, while obtaining a degree in Sociology from Leeds University. He then trained at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, receiving a Master of Music. While a student in Manchester, he was a lay clerk at Manchester Cathedral. In 2013, he was a scholar with the Samling Institute, and made his debut with the title role in Britten's Albert Herring. He returned to Samling for their 2015 production of Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges to sing the Teacup and the Frog.Career
He performs full time with Opera North in Leeds, where he has sung Jonathan Dale in the UK premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Silent Night by Kevin Puts, St. Brioche in The Merry Widow, Hrazda in Osud , and Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore for their Whistle Stop tour. He performs regularly in Manchester, including with the Manchester Opera Ensemble, Turton Consort, and Chetham Chamber Orchestra. He has also performed with the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, and is a regular soloist for the Liverpool Bach Collective.
