Guy Beynon is a first class graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music and is currently in the final year of his postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music, studying alongside Adrian Thompson and Anna Tillbrook. Guy made his operatic debut with Bampton Classical Opera last summer in their Haydn double bill of Lo Speziale and La Canterina. Alongside this he also played the Innkeeper Rasojo in Bampton’s UK premier of Salieri’s At the Venice Fair. Most recently, Guy performed the role of the clockmaker Torquemada in Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole with the Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra. 

His time at the Royal Academy has seen him perform in their production of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress directed by Frederic Wake-Walker as well as become a regular soloist in the Academy’s ‘Bach in Leipzig’ series working with world renowned guest conductors, including Masaaki Suzuki and John Butt. Beyond opera, Guy is also a great lover of song, and has found success in some recent competitions. He was awarded The Marjorie Thomas Art of Song Prize for best overall recital, as well as the Flora Nielsen French Song Prize. Additionally Guy achieved second place in the Joan Chissell/Rex Stephens Schumann Lieder Prize.