Robin Tyson

{{Short description|English countertenor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Robin Tyson | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = England | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Countertenor | years_active = 1992–present | organization = The King's Singers (2001–2009) | spouse = Christina Tyson | children = 3 | website = }} '''Robin Tyson''' is an English countertenor who has a well documented career in opera, solo, and a cappella. He now works in the music management industry and in particular leads in the choral world.

He sang in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge from 1989–1992. He is known for singing as a soloist with John Eliot Gardiner's Bach Cantata Pilgrimage in 2000.<ref name="bc" /> Tyson performed Francesco Cavalli's opera ''La Calisto'' at La Monnaie in Brussels, conducted by René Jacobs.<ref name="bc" /> He was a member of The King's Singers from 2001 to 2009, with whom he won a Grammy Award for the album Simple Gifts.<ref name="King" /><ref name="acappellanews" /> He started the music agency at Edition Peters in 2011 before taking the agency independent as Podium Music. He is manager for Voces8, composers Ēriks Ešenvalds, Ola Gjeilo, Jason Max Ferdinand and others.

Tyson joined the King's Singers as the second countertenor in 2001, in place of Nigel Short. He left in 2009 and was succeeded by Timothy Wayne-Wright. Tyson was part of the King's Singers production of Spem in Alium by Thomas Tallis, a 40-part piece. Tyson released, along with the Grammy winning Simple Gifts, ''From Byrd to the Beatles'', a documentary covering the making of Spem in Alium, along with numerous other albums and singles.

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<ref name="bc">{{cite web | url = http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Tyson-Robin.htm | title = Robin Tyson (Counter-tenor) | publisher = bach-cantatas.com | accessdate = 16 August 2015 }}</ref>

<ref name="acappellanews">{{cite web | url = http://www.acappellanews.com/archive/002019.html | title = A King's Singers Says Goodbye | publisher = acappellanews.com | accessdate = 16 August 2015 }}</ref>

<ref name="King">{{cite web | url = http://www.kingssing.com/robin-tyson-countertenor-2001-2009/ | title = Robin Tyson, countertenor (2001 – 2009) | publisher = The King's Singers | accessdate = 16 August 2015 }}</ref>

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== External links == * [https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-tyson-69988213/ LinkedIn] * [https://www.podiummusic.org/ Robin Tyson] Podium Music

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tyson, Robin}} Category:Operatic countertenors Category:English performers of early music Category:Living people Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:20th-century English male opera singers Category:21st-century British male opera singers Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Choral Scholars of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge