A BIT ABOUT ME
A BIT ABOUT ME
Scottish tenor Archie Inns maintains a varied performing career across opera, oratorio, song, and consort work, appearing regularly across the UK and internationally, with leading ensembles and at major festivals.
A Josephine Baker Trust Artist, Archie regularly appears as an oratorio soloist with groups such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Arcangelo, the Gabrieli Consort, and Polyphony, and he is also a Fellow with The English Concert. His recent repertoire includes the Evangelist in Bach’s St John Passion, the tenor arias in St Matthew Passion, Handel’s Messiah, and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle. Recent highlights have included appearing as Evangelist and tenor soloist in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in a BBC Radio 3 broadcast with Polyphony and The Britten Sinfonia. In 2026, he made his London Handel Festival debut with Arcangelo in Handel’s Saul, singing the role of the Amalekite and with the Gabrieli Consort singing Coridon in Acis and Galatea.
On the opera stage, Archie was an Emerging Artist with 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 UK Premier of M. Butterfly with the BBC Singers and in the chorus for Opera Rara’s performance of Puccini’s La Rondine. In November 2025, he sang in the semi-chorus for the UK Premiere of 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 is a 2026 Young Artist alongside collaborator, Alfred Fardell. 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, the Dorothy Richardson English Song Prize and was a finalist in the inaugural SWAPRA Rebecca Clarke Song Competition. Archie enjoys a close artistic relationship with Pianist Alfred Fardell and has a number of recitals including at the Saville Club in London.
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 is currently in his first year of a Master’s in Vocal Performance at the Royal College of Music, where he is supported in full by the Drapers’ de Turckheim Scholarship, The London Women’s Clinic Foundation Award and Mason Award, alongside support from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Sir James Caird Trust (recipient of 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. He 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.