Jolyon Loy

Jolyon Loy was a Choral Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, and studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Royal Academy of Music. His recent engagements have included company debuts at The Royal Opera as Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia (also at Snape Maltings Concert Hall), at English National Opera as Aye in Akhnaten, and at the Buxton International Festival as Zoroastro in Orlando with Liberata Collective and Ensemble Hesperi. He also recently appeared at the Internationale Opernwerkstatt – Festival der jungen Stimmen. Recordings include Apollo in Semele (Academy of Ancient Music, Gramophone nomination). Awards include an Extraordinary Prize at the 2023 Tenor Viñas Competition, Second Prize and the Bayreuth Stipendium at the Wagner Society Singing Competition at Wigmore Hall, and a Glyndebourne New Generation Young Artist Development Award. Engagements for 2024/25 include the Earl of Morton (Mary Queen of Scots) for English National Opera and debuts at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl as Marullo (Rigoletto) and Grange Park Opera as Paolo (Simon Boccanegra).