Andrew Hamilton is a British baritone working in the ensemble of the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Germany. He is an enthusiastic interpreter of song, in addition to his lively career singing operatic repertoire.
At the Bayerische Staatsoper, Andrew has celebrated role debuts of Schaunard in La Bohème, Ping in Turandot, and Ned Keene in Peter Grimes. Further roles in the 2022/23 Season include Ottokar in Der Freischütz and Marcellus in a production of Brett Dean’s Hamlet.
In March 2023, Andrew gave a Liederabend with the International Hugo-Wolf-Akademie in Stuttgart with pianist Michael Pandya. Through their love for German, French, Russian and English song, the duo maintains a lively and celebrated cooperation. Their active repertoire includes the Schubert cycles, the songs of Wolf, Schumann’s Kerner Lieder and Liederkreis op.39. With string quartet, Andrew appeared on the BBC Radio performing “Love Blows as the Wind Blows” by George Butterworth in 2018 as part of the Total Immersion: In Remembrance WWI concert.
As part of Septemberfest at the State Opera in Munich, Andrew performed Barber’s Dover Beach with string quartet comprised of musicians of the Bayerische Staatsorchester in 2022. He enjoys chamber music and concert work and his repertoire includes Britten’s War Requiem, Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Orff’s Carmina Burana.
In the 2023/24 Season, Andrew sang Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas at the Bayerische Staatsoper as well as appearing as Morales in Carmen, and in Wozzeck under the baton of General Music Director Vladimir Jurowski.
As a graduate of the Opera Studio of the Bayerische Staatsoper he has participated in master classes with Helmut Deutsch, Brigitte Fassbaender, Anna Tomowa-Sintow and Bo Skovus. He sang in the world-premiere of Singularity by Miroslav Srnka, and gave further role debuts as Lesbo in Barrie Kosky’s production of Agrippina, and Silvano in Un ballo in maschera.
At Opera School of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he earned his Master in Performance under the tutelage of John Evans. Andrew also completed his Bachelor’s degree in Music at the University of Southampton.