British tenor Hugo Hymas is in much demand for his interpretations of classical, baroque and renaissance repertoire and enjoys collaborations with the foremost practitioners of the genre.

He regularly performs with specialist groups such as Arcangelo, Capella Mediterranea, Le Concert d’Astrée,  Collegium Vocale Gent, the Dunedin Consort, English Concert, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Les Violons du Roy. He is also engaged for baroque and classical repertoire with the Bergen Philharmonic, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich,  English Chamber Orchestra and Nord Nederlands Orkest.

Hymas counts amongst his musical partners conductors Kristian Bezuidenhout, Ivor Bolton, William Christie, Jonathan Cohen, John Eliot Gardiner, Leonardo Garcia Alarcòn, Emanuelle Haïm, Philippe Herrweghe, Vaclav Luks, Dinis Sousa and Peter Whelan.

His opera engagements include Jove Semele for Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Eurimaco Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino,  Lucius in the premiere of Georgio Battistelli Julius Caesar at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Septimius Theodora and Clotarco in Haydn Armida at Potsdam Winteroper and Alessandro in Handel Poro for concert performances in Halle, Dortmund and Vienna. He is regularly engaged throughout Europe to sing Acis Acis and Galatea and returns to Glyndebourne in 2026 for roles in L’Orfeo.

He has recorded Handel’s sacred oratorio La Resurrezione with The English Concert and Harry Bicket and Purcell with Arcangelo under Cohen. Engaging with more recent repertoire he has recorded Stravinsky Cantata with The Façade Ensemble under Benedict Collins Rice

Hugo Hymas is a former Britten-Pears Young Artist and Rising Star of the Enlightenment. He grew up in Cambridge where he sang as a chorister in Great St Mary’s Church Choir and studied the clarinet after which he joined the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge as a tenor. He holds an honours degree in Music from the University of Durham.