Kelvin Lim

E-mail Address :
kelvin_lim_maslinki@yahoo.co.uk

KELVIN LIM trained at the Royal College of Music and English National Opera, and studied with Phillip Thomas.

He has worked as repetiteur for companies including: ENO (Magic Flute, Madam Butterfly, Salome, Xerxes, Billy Budd, Boheme, Carmen), Opera Genesis/ROH2 (development-Bird of Night, The Assassin Tree), Opera Holland Park (La Boheme, Tosca, Nabucco, La Traviata, Fanciulla del West, chorus master-Madama Butterfly), English Touring Opera (Eugene Onegin, L’Infedelta Delusa), Longborough (Das Rheingold) Mid-Wales Opera (Les Conte d’Hoffmann, Barber of Seville), Opera Project (Marriage of Figaro) Royal Academy of Music (Magic Flute cond. Colin Davis), Mastersingers (Der Ring Des Niblungen, Parsifal, Die Meistersinger), Bampton Classical (Leonora, La Vera Costanza, La Cappriccioso Correter, Jewel Box, Don Giovanni, Barber of Seville), Tete-a-Tete (Push!), Opera East (Marriage of Figaro, Mondo Della Luna), Broomhill Opera (Il Trittico dir. Simon Callow), Central School of Speech and Drama (Sweeney Todd), Dorset (Russlan and Ludmilla), and numerous productions for Surrey Opera and Kentish Opera.

Kelvin is Director of Postgraduate Opera at Trinity College of Music, London Opera Vocal and has also been Musical Director for Opera Brava (Carmen, Madam Butterfly), Bampton Classical (L’Infedelta Delusa), Central School of Speech and Drama, (Company!, Jerry Springer the Opera).

Kelvin was repetiteur for the Opera Genesis Program at Royal Opera House, and regularly freelances at English National opera.

He has been Music Director 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, 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 Coliseum, Royal Academy of Music, St John Smiths Square, Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh, Buxton, Warwick, Winchester and Salisbury Festivals.

Future engagements include assistant conductor Albert Herring for Co-Opera-Co, Macbeth for English Opera Singers and Lohengrin for Mastersingers.