British baritone Joshua Lane recently completed his masters in Vocal Studies and Opera at the Royal Northern College of Music under the tutelage of Matthew Best. This year he has sung Elviro in Handel’s Serse and covered Guglielmo with a run in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte with Chicago Summer Opera. At RNCM he has performed as Olin Blitch in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah and Edmund Bertram in Jonathon Dove’s Mansfield park for Opera scenes. In 2021 Josh took part in two Opera North residential weekends working with Antony Hermus and Annabel Arden, was as a young artist for Southwell Music Festival as well as singing role of Le Dancaïre in Carmen for RNCM opera scenes. He will be starting the Postgraduate Diploma at the RNCM in September 2022.

Joshua graduated from Newcastle University in 2015 with a 2:1 BA(Hons) in Music. At Newcastle he made his vocal debut as Count Henri de Bouvray in Victor Herbert’s MMLE. Modiste with Newcastle University Opera and was also elected President of the university Jazz Orchestra.

After graduating from Newcastle Joshua worked in corporate fundraising for major arts organisation in London, including the London Symphony Orchestra. He has also sung with award winning chamber choir Coro, directed by Mark Griffiths, where he has been featured as the baritone soloist. Whilst working in London he studied with Mark Wildman and Marcus Farnsworth.

Joshua is extremely grateful for the generous support of the the Alice Orrell and A&N Kendall Award, The Wayne Sleep Foundation, the Francis Higgins Bursary, Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust and the Sir Richard Stapley Education Trust during his studies.

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