GILES TOMKINS
Bass-Baritone

Opera
Year Role (Opera) Composer Company
2011 Colline (La Boheme) Puccini Pacific Opera Victoria
  Dr. Grenvil ( La Traviata) Verdi Vancouver Opera
  Marbuel (The Devil and Kate) Dvorak Opera in Concert, Toronto
2010 Achilla ( Guilio Cesare) Handel COSI, Sulmona, Italy
  Colline (La Boheme) Puccini Highlands Opera Studio, Haliburton
2009 A Mummer's Masque Dean Burry Toronto Masque Theatre
  Pedro (Iñes) Rolfe Queen of Puddings Music Theatre
  Colline (La Bohème) Puccini Saskatoon Opera
  Dr. Grenvil (La Traviata) Verdi Pacific Opera Victoria
  Cold Genius (King Arthur) Purcell Toronto Masque Theatre
2008 Figaro (Le Nozze di Fiagaro) Mozart Opera Lyra Ottawa
  Pistola (Falstaff) Verdi Scottish Opera, Glasgow
2007 Don Basilio (Il Barbière di Siviglia) Rossini Scottish Opera
  Don Alfonso (Così Fan Tutte) Mozart Tanglewood Music Festival
  Father/Don Paulo (The Shadow)* Daniel Tapestry New Opera
2006 Big Billy Brett (Elijah’s Kite) Rolfe Tapestry New Opera
  Usher (The Midnight Court) Sokolovic Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre
  Colline (La Bohème) Puccini Scottish Opera
2005 Priest/Slave (The Magic Flute) Mozart Canadian Opera Company Ensemble
  Superintendent Budd (Albert Herring) Britten Britten-Pears, Aldeburgh
  Usher (The Midnight Court) Sokolovic Queen of Puddings
  Somnus (Semele) Handel University of Toronto Opera
2004 Simone (Gianni Schicchi) Puccini University of Toronto Opera
  Death (Savitri) Holst University of Toronto Opera
  Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro) Mozart Banff Summer Arts Festival
  Escamillo (Carmen) Bizet International Symphony
  Mago (Rinaldo) Handel Opera In Concert/Aradia Ensemble
  Mr. Peachum (The Beggar’s Opera) Gay/Britten University of Toronto Opera
2003 Massakroff (The Chocolate Soldier) O. Strauss Toronto Operetta Theatre
  Don Alfonso (Così Fan Tutte) Mozart University of Toronto Opera
  Bethune (I Vespri Siciliani) Verdi Opera In Concert
  Pish-Tush (The Mikado) Gilbert & Sullivan Toronto Operetta Theatre
  Jupiter (Castor et Pollux) Rameau Opera In Concert/Aradia Ensemble


Oratorio

Year Repertoire Composer Company
2011 Damnation of Faust Berlioz Vancouver Bach Choir
2010 Mass in C Minor Mozart King Edward Choir, Barrie
      London Fanshawe Chorus
  Petite Messe Solennelle Rossini Cellar Singers, Orillia
  Messiah Handel Elmer Iseler Singers
      Bach Elgar Choir
  Soundstreams w/
Tambuco Percussion
Alvarez, Sokolovic Cervantino Festival, Mexico
      Koerner Hall, Toronto
2009 Jazz Creation David Mott Mississauga Choral Society
  Messiah Handel Peterborough Singers
  A Jazz Creation Mott Mississauga Choral Society
  St. John Passion Bach Toronto Bach Consort
  "Blessed Cecilia" Various Aldeburgh Connection
2008 Messiah Handel Toronto Classical Consort
  Parnassus on Elm Street   Aldeburgh Connection
  Judas Maccabaeus Handel Masterworks of Oakville
  Mass in C Beethoven Guelph Chamber Choir
  Elijah Mendelssohn Georian Bay Concert Choir
2008 "Parnassus of Elm Street" Various Aldeburgh Connection
2007 Quartre Chansons de Don Quichotte Ibert Off Centre Music Salon
  St. John Passion Bach Georgian Bay Concert Choir
  An Die Ferne Geliebte Beethoven Off Centre Music Salon
2006 Messiah Handel Chorus Niagara
  Messiah Handel International Symphony
  King Arthur Purcell Britten-Pears Baroque Orchestra
2004 The Lieder of Brahms Brahms Off Centre Music Salon
  Cantata #26 Bach University of Toronto Bach Festival
2002 Christmas Fantasia Vaughan Williams Mississauga Symphony


Recordings

Year Repertoire Composer Company
2007 Gualtiero (La Griselda) Vivaldi Naxos
Opera In Concert/Aradia Ensemble
2007 Beethoven? Beethoven! Beethoven DoReMi
An die Ferne Geliebte Boris Zarankin, piano
2006 And So It Goes Universal Music Canada
Opening Day
2006 Mago (Rinaldo) Handel Naxos
Opera In Concert/Aradia Ensemble
2004 Dixit Dominus Vivaldi Naxos
Aradia Ensemble
2004 Jupiter (Castor et Pollux) Rameau Naxos
Opera In Concert/Aradia Ensemble
2003 Messe de Minuit Charpentier Naxos/Aradia Ensemble


Education

2003-2005 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