Introduction
Lynton
received his early musical training under George Guest while at Cambridge
University and studied with David Mason and Gita Denise. He won the
Richard Tauber Competition, and was a prizewinner in the Alfredo Kraus
International Singing Competition.
Lynton's concert career has taken him to many major centres and European
Festivals with such conductors as Sir Neville Marriner, Libor Pesek,
Helmut Rilling and Gustav Sjökvist. He has recorded for Harmonia
Mundi, Virgin Classics, Meridian, Telarc, BBC TV and Radio and Channel
4 with conductors including Richard Hickox, Rene Jacobs and Richard
Bonynge.
In 1990 Lynton made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
where he became a contract artist.
Since then he has sung the principal roles in
L'Elisir d'Amore, La Traviata, Pearl Fishers, Don Giovanni, Zauberflöte,
Entführung, and The Merry Widow, throughout the UK and Europe,
including Strasbourg, Amsterdam, Berlin, Turin, Trieste, Boston, Dublin
and Maastricht. He sang Tamino in the highly successful 'Zauberflöte
im Zirkus' in Berlin.
Concerts include Haydn's The Seasons in the Stresa
Festival with the Freiburg Bach Orchestra, and the Christmas Oratorio
in Oslo for Norwegian Radio, Bach's Matthew Passion in Stockholm and
Frankfurt, Britten's St Nicholas in Berlin's Konzerthaus, and Verdi's
Requiem with the Brighton Festival Chorus and also the Harrogate Choral
Society.
Lynton appears regularly in Sweden, and sang there on New Years Day
2000. Other recent engagements have included concerts in the Three Choirs
Festival, his debut with the Bach Choir in the Royal Festival Hall,
Bach's B Minor Mass and Mozart's Requiem with the Israel Camerata, and
performances in the new concert halls of Oviedo and Bilbao. He has recorded
Entführung with Sir Charles Mackerras together with a documentary
film of the opera set in Istanbul and directed by Elijah Moshinsky.
This was shown on BBC television in December 2000. He performs regularly
in the USA, notably in Monteverdi's Orfeo and Il Ritorno d'Ulisse with
Boston Baroque. 2004 saw his acclaimed debuts in the Tanglewood and
Ravinia festivals as well as the new Disney Hall in Los Angeles.
Lynton is in great demand as a singing teacher
and vocal coach, drawing on both his experience as a performer and also
his pianistic abilities. Amongst his pupils are professional singers,
aspiring professionals and enthusiastic amateur singers of all ages
and abilities.