Ted Black

Born and raised in London, tenor Ted Black began his studies as a pianist and 'cellist, before taking up singing. He is currently a member of the International Opera Studio at the Royal College of Music having previously completed a masters degree at RCM, and a bachelors at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Ted’s operatic roles include Gonzalve (L’heure Espagnole - RCM), Cecco (Il mondo della Luna - RCM), Junge Seeman (Tristan und Isolde – Saffron Opera Group). His extensive concert work has included Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms at the Edinburgh International Festival, with Marin Alsop and the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Vaughan-WIlliams’ Third Symphony with John Wilson, and last December, Ted toured the Netherlands performing Handel’s Messiah with the Nieuwe Philharmonie Urecht. Ted has enjoyed successes in many competitions - he won first place in the 2019 Lies Askonas Competition, was a semi-finalist in the 2019 Grange Festival International Singing Competition, and, while studying in Glasgow, won first place in the Governors’ Recital Prizes for both singing and chamber music, the Jean Highgate Scholarship for Singing, and the Florence Veitch Ibler Prize for Oratorio.