BIOGRAPHY

Kelvin Lim trained at the RCM and ENO, and studied with Phillip Thomas. He has worked as repetiteur for English National Opera,(Magic Flute, Salome, Madame Butterfly, Xerxes, Billy Budd) Opera Genesis/ROH2 (development Bird of Night, Assassin Tree, Letters of a Love Betrayed), Opera Holland Park (La Boheme, Tosca, La Traviata, Nabucco, Fanciulla del West, Madama Butterfly- chorus master), English Touring Opera (Eugene Onegin, L’Infedelta delusa, Teseo), Longborough (Das Rheingold), Mid-Wales Opera (Les Contes D’Hoffman, Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Opera Project (Marriage of Figaro), Royal Academy of Music (Magic Flute cond Colin Davis), Mastersingers (Der Ring des Niblungen, Parsifal, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Lohengrin), Bampton Classical (Le Pescatrici, Leonora, Don Giovanni, Barber of Seville, Capriccioso Correter, Jewel Box, La Vera Costanza, Falstaff), Central School of Speech and Drama (Sweeney Todd), Dorset Opera (Cavelleria Rusticana, I Pagliacci, Russlan & Ludmilla), Tete-a-Tete (Push!), Broomhill (Il Trittico, dir Simon Callow), Surrey Opera (Aida, Un Ballo in Maschera, Cav & Pag), Kentish Opera (numerous productions including Aida, Turandot, Pearlfishers, Don Quichotte).

Kelvin is Co-Director of Postgraduate Opera at Trinity College of Music, where he assisted Stueart Bedford (Albert Herring). He has also been Assistant conductor for Co-Opera Co (Albert Herring), Musical Director for English Opera Singers (Macbeth), Opera Brava (Carmen, Madama Butterfly), Bampton Classical (L’Infedelta Delusa), and Central School of Speech and Drama, (Company!, Jerry Springer the Opera, Mystery of Edwin Drood). Kelvin was repetiteur for the Opera Genesis Program at Royal Opera House and for Glyndebourne. He has been Conductor for rehearsals of Magic Flute and Opera Scenes at Royal Academy of Music, official accompanist for the Wagner Society and was the first UK pianist to be awarded the Bayreuth Bursary Prize.

He has worked for John Tomlinson, Anne Evans, Anthony Rolf-Johnson, Elizabeth Connell, Sir Donald McIntyre, Jeffrey Talbot, Ludmilla Andrew and in masterclass with Antonio Pappano, John Tomlinson, Gwyneth Jones, Barry Banks, Sarah Walker, Malcolm Martineau and Diana Montague. He has broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4, and performed at The London Coliseum, Recital Hall Royal Academy of Music, St James Picadilly, St John Smiths Sq, Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh, Buxton, Warwick, Winchester and Salisbury Festivals, as well as in Jerez and Granada. He was also recently pianist for CREAR masterclasses with Malcolm Martineau and recently was repetiteur on Exposure for ROH2 at the Linbury Theatre. Future engagements: Carmen for Opera Holland Park, Die Walkure for Longborough Festival Opera, Marriage of Figaro for Bampton Classical Opera and assistant for Co-Opera Co.