David Mulvenna Hamilton (born 22 March 1960) is a Scottish-born Australian operatic tenor .

Career [ edit ]

Hamilton studied voice and flute at Napier College in Edinburgh, and at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Dance. His teachers included Grant Dickson, Robert Gard and Lillian Liddell. ^[1]

He moved to Sydney, Australia in 1979. He was a member of the vocal ensemble The Song Company from 1986 to 1991, being a full-time member in 1996. Performances have included the tenor roles in oratorios with all the major orchestras in Australia and New Zealand ; he has also performed in the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and China. His repertoire includes Handel's Messiah , Bach's Passions , Haydn's The Creation , Britten's War Requiem and Elgar's Dream of Gerontius . A review in the Wellington Post wrote about his performance as the Evangelist : "Most remarkable of the soloists was David Hamilton. His words tumbled out as if he was dramatizing a remarkable event of last week with a voice of wide range and power and a particularly arresting top." ^[1]

On the opera stage, he has performed in the title role of Britten's Albert Herring , Tamino in Mozart's Die Zauberflote and Loge in Wagner's Das Rheingold . In 2007 he performed at the title role of Wagner's Lohengrin at the Saarbrucken Opera House. ^{[1] [2]}

Hamilton has performed at many theatres and festivals, including the Australian Opera in Sydney, the West Australian Opera in Perth, the Queensland Opera in Brisbane , the South Australian Opera in Adelaide , the New Zealand Opera in Auckland, the Wellington Opera in Wellington , New Zealand and the New Zealand Festival. In Europe he has performed at the Scottish Opera in Glasgow and the Edinburgh Festival , and the Halle Handel Festival . ^[1]

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• David Mulvenna Hamilton Website
• David Hamilton Diva Management
• Biography at Overs Pianos