Jake Bigwood studied a Bachelor of music at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in the Classical vocal stream. Whilst there, Jake had the pleasure of performing roles such as Polyphemus (Handel’s ‘Acis and Galatea’), Theseus (Britten’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’), Aeneas (Purcell’s ‘Dido and Aeneas’), Superintendent Budd (Britten’s ‘Albert Herring’), and Monsieur Presto (Poulenc’s ‘Les mamelles de Tirésias’). In addition, Jake took part in a number of ensemble and choral works including Handel’s Messiah, Brahms’ Requiem, Faure Requiem, and the Rachmaninov Vespers as well as singing as a soloist in the Mozart requiem.

Since his graduation from WAAPA Jake gained a place with the state opera company as part of their chorus and was in the 2018 productions of Bizet’s Carmen and Mozart’s Don Giovanni as well as performing as part of their primary school education “Sing Out Loud” program. 2019 saw Jake perform in Bach's Wachet auf cantata as the father in addition to making his professional debut with the independent opera company Freeze Frame Opera with whom he played the role of Sciarrone and understudied the role of Angelotti in their production of Puccini’s Tosca. Jake was the recipient of both the Evelyn and Ralph Thompson Scholarship and the audience choice award with ArtSong Perth before leaving WA for London where he studied at the Royal Academy of Music.

In London, Jake gained a place with the Philharmonia Chorus with whom he sang in the chorus for Handel’s Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall.
2020 saw Jake gain roles with Love opera in an English adaptation of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte (Don Alfonso) as well as covering the same role in the traditional Italian for Bournemouth Opera. British Youth Opera also cast Jake as a cover for Monsieur Presto in Poulenc’s Les mamelles de Tirésias and Guccio in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. Jake was engaged to sing as soloist in Beethoven’s 9th symphony with the Audentia ensemble and in Bach’s Weihnachts oratorium with UWACS.

Within the Academy’s opera scenes, Jake sang the roles of Leporello, Boito’s Mefistofeles, Sir Giorgio in Bellini’s i Puritani and Don Magnifico in Rossini’s La cenerentola. With the Royal Academy Opera, Jake sang in the chorus of Die Zauberflöte and the role of Snug in their production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

As the culmination of his master’s degree, Jake performed a 45 minute recital consisting of Mozart, Brahms, Ravel, Wolf, Rachmaninov, and Gounod and was deemed a “revelation” by the renowned lieder scholar Richard Stokes. Also, from Linnhe Robertson, “..an excellent vehicle for a genuine bass voice with enormous operatic potential, lyrical and resonant, technically well put together.”
Winning both the Regency Prize and AM Parker award for excellence; Jake graduated from the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) with distinction alongside an honorary Diploma of the RAM.

At the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Jake was chosen to be one of three singers to present a workshop for teenagers on the opera La Boheme and to give the prospective singers a further understanding of what the early steps might look like in their pursuit of an operatic career.

Following his graduation, Jake has returned to Australia and is a Wesfarmers Young Artist with West Australian Opera (WAO) in 2022. Jake made his Perth concert debut as the bass soloist in Handel's Messiah and will be making his debut with the roles of Zuniga and Angelotti with WAO, Colline and Ashby with Freeze Frame Opera, and singing in a new opera for children being commisioned by WAO and written by Emma Jayakumar in which she has written The Mayor for Jake.

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