Favourite pieces
Handel's Pena tiranna from Amadigi di Gaula performed in 2023 (September) and 2022 (May, 21)
Handel's Al lampo dell'armi from Giulio Cesare performed in 2022 (August) and 2018 (April)
Handel's Se in fiorito ameno prato from Giulio Cesare in Egitto performed in 2022 (August and May, 21) and 2018 (April).
An all Purcell programme
- O solitude, my sweetest choice Z406
- The Fairy Queen Z629:
- One charming night
- O let me weep
- Here the Deities approve
- Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien
St Martin-in-the-Fields, 21-Sep-2023 / 19:00
Barbican Hall, 29-Mar-2023 / 19:00
Handel: Theodora
- Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen - Conductor, Tim Mead as Didymus,
Louise Alder as Theodora, Anna Stéphany as Irene
Unfortunetly, his concert planned for the 27th of June 2024 at the Wigmore Hall was cancelled, due to to unforeseen circumstances.
- Handel: Cantata: Siete rose rugiadose HWV162
- Scarlatti, Giovanni Bononcini
- Laurence Cummings, Jonathan Manson
St Martin-in-the-Fields, 2-Aug-2022 / 19:30
An all Handel programme
- “Orrido larve … Chiudetevi miei lumi” from Admeto
- “Father of Heav’n” from Judas Maccabaeus
- Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
- John Butt - Conductor
Unfortunately, Mr. Mead's concert with
Anna Dennis and Roderick Williams scheduled for the 10th of April 2020 at the Barbican Hall was cancelled due to the pandemic.
His performance scheduled for the 4th of April 2020 at the Wigmore Hall was also cancelled.
Royal Albert Hall, 19-Jul-2022 / 22:15
Purcell
- Bach:
- Mass in A BWV234
- BWV11 'Ascension Oratorio'
St Martin-in-the-Fields, 21-May-2022 / 19:30
An all Handel programme
- Venti, turbini from Rinaldo
- 'Sento la gioia' from Amadigi di Gaula
- Già per la man…Già l’ebro from Orlando
- Crede l’uom from Il Trionfo de Tempo e del Disinganno
- E vivo ancora?…Scherza infida from Ariodante
- La Nuova Musica, David Bates - Director
Cadogan Hall, 5-Dec-2021 / 18:00
Handel: Messiah
- English Chamber Orchestra, The Choir of Royal Holloway, Stuart Jackson, Carolyn Sampson
Wigmore Hall, 6-Sep-2021 / 19:30
An all Bach programme
- Vereinigte Zwietracht der wechselnden Saiten BWV207
- Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen BWV215
- London Handel Players
- Julia Doyle
- Tim Mead
Mr. Mead performed Pergolesi's Stabat mater with Benjamin Hulett,
Carolyn Sampson and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Martyn Brabbins on the
6th of August 2021.
Mr. Mead sang as 'the voice of Apollo' in Britten's Death in Venice at the Royal Opera House on various dates in November and December 2019.
Opera Today: “As Hamor, counter-tenor Tim Mead was as, if not more, impressive, singing with sweetness and strength.”
Royal Albert Hall, 30-Aug-2019 / 19:30
Handel: Jephtha (138 mins)
- Allan Clayton as Jephtha, Jeanine De Bique as Iphis,
Tim Mead as Hamor, Cody Quattlebaum as Zebul, Rowan Pierce as Angel, SCO Chorus, Scottish Chamber Orchestra
He performed in Handel's Brockes Passion with Academy of Ancient Music,
Robert Murray as Evangelist, Cody Quattlebaum as Christus, the Choir of AAM and Richard Egarr as director and harpsichordist at the Barbican Hall on the
19th of April 2019.
Wigmore Hall, 7-Dec-2018 / 19:30
- Scarlatti:
- Cantata - Piango, sospiro, e peno
- Mentre sul carro aurato from Clori e Mirtillo
- Handel:
- Cantata: Amarilli Vezzosa (Il Duello Amoroso) HWV82
- Porpora:
Wigmore Hall, 22-May-2018 / 19:30
- Bach, Cantatas:
- Widerstehe doch der Sünde BWV54
- Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust BWV170
- La Nuova Musica
- David Bates - Director
Sinfonia Smith Square, 11-Apr-2018 / 19:00
Handel: Giulio Cesare
- Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn - Director, Tim Mead as Giulio Cesare, Anna Devin as Cleopatra, Callum Thorpe as Achilla, James Hall as Nireno
Milton Court Concert Hall, 15-Feb-2018 / 19:30
- Handel/Ferrandini: Cantata HWV82 Il Duello Amoroso
- Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
- Academy of Ancient Music
- Christian Curnyn - Director, harpsichord
- Keri Fuge - Soprano, Tim Mead
Milton Court Concert Hall, 15-Feb-2018 / 19:30
- Handel: Cantata HWV230, Ah! che troppo ineguali
- Handel/Ferrandini: Cantata HWV82 Il Duello Amoroso
- Pergolesi
Tim Mead sang the role of Apollo in two performances of Mozart's Apollo et Hyacinthus K38 at St John's Smith Square in June 2017. For more details, please refer to
Benjamin Hulett.
Wigmore Hall, 29-Jan-2017 / 15:00
Recital with pianist James Baillieu
- Herbert Howells:
- Vaughan Williams:
- Linden Lea
- Silent Noon
- Tired
- Purcell: Lord, what is man? (A Divine Hymn) Z192 (arr. Benjamin Britten)
- Roger Quilter:
- It was a lover and his lass from Five Shakespeare Songs (set 2) Op. 23
- Hey, ho, the wind and the rain
- Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: La Belle Dame sans merci
- Betty Roe: To his sweet saviour
- John Ireland: If there were dreams to sell
- Joseph Phibbs: The Moon's Funeral
- John Dankworth: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
- Warlock: Love for Love
- Britten: O Waly, Waly
Wigmore Hall, 28-Nov-2016 / 19:30
Francesco Cavalli: La Calisto
- La Nuova Musica, David Bates - Director, Lucy Crowe as Calisto, James Platt as Giove, Jurgita Adamonyté as Diana, Tim Mead as Endomione, Rachel Kelly as Giunone, James Newby as Mercurio, Andrew Tortise as Pane, Sam Furness as Linfea, Jake Arditti as Satirino, Edward Grint as Sylvano
Wigmore Hall, 22-Nov-2016 / 19:30
- Purcell:
- Welcome to all the pleasures Z339
- Hail, bright Cecilia Z328
- Matthew Locke: Selections from The Tempest
- Dunedin Consort, John Butt - Director
- Joanne Lunn, Nicholas Mulroy - Tenor
- Matthew Brook - Bass-baritone
Wigmore Hall, 27-Mar-2015 / 19:30
Bach: St John Passion
- City of London Choir, Music for Awhile, Hilary Davan Wetton - Conductor, Mark Wilde as Evangelist, Njabulo Madlala as Christus, Tim Mead, Benjamin Bevan - Baritone
Tim Mead studied as a choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge
Wigmore Hall, 18-Mar-2014 / 19:30
- Monteverdi:
- Oblivion soave from L’incoronazione di Poppea
- Altri canti di marte Book 8
- Sestina Madrigals
- Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen – director
- Katherine Watson - Soprano
- Zoe Brown - Soprano, Tim Mead
- Jeremy Budd - Tenor, Benjamin Hulett
- Callum Thorpe - Bass-baritone
