British tenor John Findon, winner of the 2025 Critics’ Circle Award for Male Voice, has received widespread critical acclaim for his recent performances both at home and abroad. John studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and on the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was a Harewood Artist at the English National Opera, a Jerwood Young Artist at the Glyndebourne Festival and the recipient of the Leonard Ingrams Award from Garsington Opera.

Upcoming engagements include house and role debuts at the Teatro La Fenice and the Opéra National de Lorraine, as well as a return to the Teatro di San Carlo in the title role of Peter Grimes. Next summer, John will make his debut at Santa Fe Opera and return to Glyndebourne Festival Opera. On the concert platform, he performs Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with The Royal Ballet, Siegmund in Die Walküre with Staatsorchester Stuttgart and Nicholas Carter as well as Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko, the Ulster Orchestra and Jac van Steen.

Last season, he made his US debut in Of Mice and Men and appeared as Don José in Carmen at the English National Opera. On the concert stage, he joined the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra for Weber’s Oberon at the BBC Proms under the baton of Sir Mark Elder and reunited with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Tippett’s A Child of Our Time with Ryan Wigglesworth. Other previous opera highlights include the title role in Peter Grimes at the Dutch National Opera, Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Opéra de Rouen and Andrei in Mazeppa at the Grange Park Opera. In concert, some notable performances include Salome with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Antonio Pappano and The Dream of Gerontius with the WDR Sinfonieorchester.