Tim Mead has amassed an unusually long list of operatic and concert appearances since coming on the scene in the 2000s decade, performing with numerous major opera companies and ensemble directors. Mead has also applied his virtuoso voice to contemporary repertoire.
Mead was born in Chelmsford, Essex, U.K., in 1981. As with so many other early music performers, he had his first musical training as a treble chorister at Chelmsford Cathedral. He entered the junior program at Trinity College of Music, studying cello and piano, and went on to King's College, Cambridge, as a chora...