Ailish Tynan

Ailish Tynan trained at Trinity College, the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She was a Vilar Young Artist at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, a BBC New Generation Artist and won the Rosenblatt Recital Prize at the 2003 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.

Recent roles include Gretel Hänsel und Gretel at the Royal Opera House, Tigrane Radamisto for English National Opera, Papagena Die Zauberflöte at La Scala, Despina Così fan tutte at Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse, Héro Béatrice et Bénédict for Houston Grand Opera, Opéra Comique and the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg. Other highlights include Sophie Der Rosenkavalier, Nannetta Falstaff and Atalanta Xerxes for Royal Swedish Opera, Marzelline Fidelio at Covent Garden and Miss Wordsworth Albert Herring for Opéra Comique & Opéra de Rouen.

Recent concert work includes Mahler Symphony No. 4 with the Hallé under Sir Mark Elder; Poulenc Gloria with the RTÉ National Symphony and Bella in Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davies at the BBC Proms.