Appearances with Wokingham Choral Society:
John-Owen Miley-Read joined Wokingham Choral
Society at Wellington College Newsome Sports Hall on 20th
November 2010 in Haydn's Creation.
October 2010
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John-Owen Miley-Read
Bass
John-Owen Miley-Read is a 26-year-old Australian Bass
currently studying for his Masters of Voice at the Royal
Academy of Music under Mark Wildman on a full
scholarship. Previous teachers include Robert Alderson at
the Dublin Institute of Technology and Angela Giblin at
the Australian National University.
His recent roles include 2nd Mate in Billy Budd
and The Goat in Renard at Glyndebourne, Giordano
in Romeo and Juliet with Opera Ireland, Sarastro
in The Magic Flute, Salieri in the Irish Premiere
of Mozart and Salieri, Valens in Theodora,
Schaunard in La Bohème, Strephon in
Iolanthe, the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance as
part of the Annual International Gilbert and Sullivan
Festival in Buxton, a role which won him the Best Male
Performer of the Festival award, Simone in Gianni
Schicchi, Un Arbre in L'enfant et les Sortileges, Bluff
in The Impresario, the Lion in Pyramis and Thisbe and
Frank in Die Fledermaus. He was awarded the Yorke Trust
Scholarship three times (in 2003, 2007 and 2008) and was
the winner of the Royal Overseas League Christchurch
Scholarship for performances in New Zealand in 2005. In
2008 he became the first non Irish Young Artist with the
Opera Theatre Company in Ireland.
John-Owen has performed concerts, oratorios and operas in
Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, England and Ireland,
with such singers as Matthew Best, Natalie Manfrino,
Imelda Drumm and John Elwes. Future work includes his
Royal Opera House debut in July of 2011 as the Prime
Minister in the Royal Opera House's first performance of
Massenet's Cendrillon, and Masetto in Don Giovanni in
Dublin with Lyric Opera.
He has performed many of the Oratorios in the repertoire
including Mozart’s Requiem with the Glyndebourne
Festival Chorus, Carlow Choral Society and DIT Choral
Society, Handel's Messiah, Bach’s Easter and
Ascension Oratorios, his B Minor Mass, St Matthew Passion
and St John Passion all with the Dublin Bach Singers.
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