Glenn Tweedie is from Whiteabbey Co Antrim. He studied singing at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and then the Royal College of Music in London as a post graduate, and has spent a considerable number of years singing in London.
Glenn's further study and singing continued in Italy at the Teatro del Maggio in Florence and some time with The European Festival Chorus in Salzburg including several Italian tours. He has worked with the National Reis opera in the Netherlands and has toured singing Opera and Operetta in Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Malaysia and all over the British Isles.
Glenn sings an extensive tenor repertoire in Concert, Oratorio and Opera. He has worked with British Youth Opera, Grange Park Opera, European Chamber Opera , Buxton Festival Opera Opera UK and many more. His roles include a wide variety of repertoire including Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) , Ferrando (Cosi fan tutte), Tamino (The Magic Flute), Monostatos (The Magic Flute) Mozart, Torquemada (L'heure Espagnol) Ravel, Lacouf and Le Journaliste (Les Mamelles de Tiresias) Poulenc, Dr Caius (Falstaff) , Edouard (Un giorno di regno) Gastone (La Traviata) Verdi, Piquillo (La Perichole) Offenbach, Don Luigi (Maria Padilla) Donizetti , Pifear (Si J'etais Roi), Camille (The Merry Widow) Lehar, Hypochondriac (The Gambler) Prokoviev and Triquet and Lensky in (Eugine Onegin), Tchaikovsky.
He regularly performs a portfolio of Gala concerts with a range of repertoire from Opera, Operetta, Music Theatre and Sacred Music. In recent years he has performed a number of themed concerts including music from the First World War, Gilbert and Sullivan and an Opera Pops New Year's Eve Gala at St Martin in the Fields in London.
More recently and locally he has performed the Operetta music of Strauss and Lehar in 'Gala Theatre' productions in the Market Square Theatre, Armagh and in the Moat Theatre Naas; Haydn's Nelson Mass in Down Cathedral; the Stanford Requiem at Portico; Stainer's Crucifixion at St Patrick's Coleraine and again in St John's Malone; the Gounod Requiem in Portico and last year a series of concerts for the National Trust in Mussenden Temple. He sang last Winter at the Waterfront BT Studios with local choirs and was singing Opera Pops at Proms in the Park at Antrim Castle Gardens this Summer and gave a number of recitals in Belfast and Coleraine.
Later this year he will sing again in the very successful Dramatised Messiah with The Merry Opera Company in London and on its UK tour.
Glenn also produces and directs concerts and productions for several opera companies and singing groups and has considerable experience in educational workshops and music projects in schools and with Local Youth groups.