Omar Ebrahim

Omar Ebrahim, born in Greasbrough in South Yorkshire, studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and was initially engaged by the Royal Shakespeare Company and in the chorus of Glyndebourne Touring Opera, where he took on his first solo role as Schaunard (La bohème). In his home country, he has performed at Almeida Opera, Opera Holland Park, English Touring Opera, City of Birmingham Touring Opera, London’s South Bank Centre and the Linbury Theatre of London’s Royal Opera House Covent Garden, as well as at the Theater Basel, the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels and the Vlaamse Opera. Specialising in the contemporary opera repertoire, he was involved in the world premieres of Liza Lim’s The Navigator at the Brisbane Festival and Enno Poppe’s work Nahrung Wohnung at the Munich Biennale; He has also sung in operas by John Adams, Luciano Berio, Harrison Birtwistle, Hans Jürgen von Bose, John Casken, Kris Defoort, Jonathan Dove, Péter Eötvös, Philip Glass, Catherine Kontz, Peter Lieberson, Tod Machover, Michael Nyman, Stephen Oliver, Nigel Osborne, Edward Rushton and Sir Michael Tippett. He has appeared regularly on the concert platform with the Ensemble Modern, the Ensemble Intercontemporain and the London Sinfonietta; For example, he has appeared in György Ligeti’s Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures (with the Ensemble Intercontemporain under Pierre Boulez and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen), in Arnold Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon-Buonaparte (at the Salzburg Festival and in the Royal Festival Hall) and in Richard Strauss’ Enoch Arden (at IRCAM in Paris). He teaches at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in Greenwich.