Opera Studio

Thomas McGowan

London-born baritone Thomas McGowan studied at the Music at the University of Oxford and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Robert Dean. A recipient of numerous awards, he was the 2024 winner of the Chris Treglown Foundation Award, and also received the Dorothy Richardson English Song Prize (Association of English singers and speakers, 2023) and the Anne Wyburd Prize for German Lieder (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 2023).

At Guildhall, he has performed several roles including Falke and Frank (»Die Fledermaus«), Edmund Bertram (»Mansfield Park«), and excerpts of Figaro (»Il barbiere di Siviglia«), Pelléas (»Pelléas et Mélisande«), Malatesta (»Don Pasquale«), and Hamlet (»Hamlet«). His previous engagements include performing Perichaud (»La rondine«) with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, under the baton of Antonio Pappano. Thomas McGowan was a Young Artist at the Leeds Lieder Festival. His Concert Repertoire includes Brahms’ »Deutsches Requiem«, Fauré’s »Requiem« and Rossini »Petite Messe solenelle«. In the summer of 2025 he was an Alvarez Emerging Artist with Garsington Opera, where he covered the role of Prince Yeletsky (»The Queen of Spades«). He is a member of the Gärtnerplatztheater’s opera studio since the 2025/2026 season.