Archie Inns is a tenor originally from Scotland and is currently in his first year studying for a Master’s in Vocal Performance at the Royal College of Music, where he is supported in full by the Drapers’ de Turckheim Scholarship and Mason Award. Alongside this, Archie is supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Sir James Caird Trust, who awarded him the 2025 Wiseman Prize, the Elizabeth Izatt Trust, and the Kathleen Trust. At the Royal College of Music, Archie is taught by Miranda Wright and Nicky Spence.

On the opera stage, Archie was an Emerging Artist for Westminster Opera Company, held the James Bowman Young Artistship at Vache Baroque, and is currently an Associate Artist with Oxford Opera. His roles include Prince Gvidon (The Golden Cockerel; Orchestra Vox), Autumn (The Fairy Queen; Vache Baroque), Alfred (Die Fledermaus; WOCO), Phoebus and Coridon (The Fairy Queen; Gabrieli Consort), and the Headmaster in The History Boys. He has also sung in the chorus for Huang Ruo’s M. Butterfly with the BBC Singers and in the chorus for Opera Rara’s performance of Puccini’s La Rondine. In November 2025, he will sing in the semi-chorus for Laura Karpman’s BALLS at the Royal Festival Hall, conducted by Marin Alsop.

In the sphere of song, Archie made his debut at the Oxford International Song Festival in 2024 alongside James Gilchrist and has performed at the Holywell Music Room. He is the recipient of the Luxon Amit Folkestone-on-Song Bursary Award and Song Prize, the Mendl-Schrama Prize, the Oxford and Cambridge Club Music Prize, and the Dorothy Richardson English Song Prize.

Archie is a Josephine Baker Trust Artist and regularly appears as an oratorio soloist alongside groups such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Arcangelo, the Gabrieli Consort, and Polyphony. Archie’s recent repertoire includes the Evangelist in St John Passion, the tenor arias in St Matthew Passion, Handel’s Messiah, and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle. Archie is looking forward to making his London Handel Festival debut in Arcangelo’s performance of Saul in February 2026, where he will be singing the part of the Amalekite.

As a consort singer, Archie works regularly with leading ensembles including the BBC Singers, Polyphony, and The Sixteen. He has sung in major liturgical services at Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, and St Paul’s Cathedral, and recent projects with the BBC Singers have included Poulenc’s Figure Humaine and appearances at the Aldeburgh Festival and the BBC Proms.

Archie holds a degree in Philosophy and Theology from Christ Church, Oxford, where he was a Choral Scholar, and he spent his gap year singing at St John’s College, Cambridge under Andrew Nethsingha. His early training took place at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Junior Department with Paul Keohone, and as a chorister at Durham Cathedral under James Lancelot, where his vocal studies with Miranda Wright began.