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The New Zealander baritone, Will King, obtained his Bachrlor of Music degree with Honors from the New Zealand School of University in Wellington (2013-2018), taught primarily under Margaret Medlyn. Currently he is pursuing his Master of Musical Arts at the same institute. He was the winner of the 2018 Wellington Aria Competition, 2019 North Shore Aria Competition and 2019 Napier Aria Competition (2nd Place); and runner up in the 2018 Becroft North Shore Aria Competition, and 2019 McCormick Opera Award; 3rd in the 2017 Dunedin Aria Competition.
Will King's operatic roles include the title role in Monteverdi’s L’orfeo, Count Almaviva in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Sam in Gareth Farr’s The Bone Feeder for New Zealand Opera and Auckland Arts Festival, Lorenzo in Bellini’s I Capuleti e I Montecchi, Zaretsky in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, and Valens in a staged production of George Frideric Handel's Theodora. In July 2022, he sang as soloist in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Lyric Opera Studio Weimar.
His concert repertoire includes OrphEus: A Dance Opera, G.F. Handel's Messiah, W.A. Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore and Mass in C Minor and Donizetti’s Requiem. He is also a member of the Freemasons New Zealand Opera Chorus, Voices NZ Chamber Choir and the NZ Youth Choir, and is a 2019 Dame Malvina Major Emerging Artist with New Zealand Opera. He is curreently based in Wellington |
