Allyn Wu

Award-winning Australian baritone Allyn Wu, based in London, is a dynamic and versatile performer working across Europe, with a particular affinity for historically informed performance, oratorio, and song.

An experienced oratorio soloist, Allyn has performed under distinguished conductors including Masaaki Suzuki, Harry Christophers, Laurence Cummings, Trevor Pinnock, John Butt, David Hill, Christoph Rousset, and Peter Whelan. His repertoire encompasses major works such as Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, Handel’s Messiah and Dettingen Te Deum, Mozart’s Requiem, Haydn’s Nelson Mass and The Creation, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, C.P.E. Bach’s Magnificat, and J.S. Bach’s St John Passion, St Matthew Passion, Christmas Oratorio, and Mass in B minor, in addition to numerous cantatas.

In 2025, he was awarded Second Prize at the Concours Corneille in Rouen, organised by Le Poème Harmonique and adjudicated by Véronique Gens and Vincent Dumestre.

His operatic work spans repertoire from Early Music to contemporary opera. Recent highlights include an award-nominated performance in Purcell’s The Fairy Queen with Hampstead Garden Opera. His roles include Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Apollo (Apollo e Dafne), the title role in Britten’s Owen Wingrave, and the Podestat in Bizet’s Le Docteur Miracle.

He is also deeply committed to new music, collaborating with composers in the creation of new works. He has originated roles in Sarah Marze’s The District and George Parris’ When the Sky Cracks Open at the Tête à Tête Opera Festival. During his time at the Academy, he was selected for the Glyndebourne Opera Lab.

Allyn has also performed extensively as a chorus member, appearing in productions including Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress under Trevor Pinnock, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro under Alice Farnham, Rossini’s La Cenerentola under Jonathan Darbourne with Hampstead Garden Opera, Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer under Anthony Negus, and Verdi’s Falstaff under Paul Daniel at the St Endellion Festival.

As a recitalist, Allyn performs regularly across the UK and abroad and was a member of the Royal Academy of Music’s prestigious Song Circle. Most recently, he completed a recital tour with Le Poème Harmonique as part of the Nouvelles Voix en Normandie series, performing 17th-century French airs de cour repertoire at various music festivals across Normandy. His recital appearances include performances at the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Italian Cultural Institute, Holy Sepulchre Church, Marylebone Parish Church, and numerous other London-based music festivals. He has also performed at 22 Mansfield Street in a programme exploring the music of Brahms and the Schumanns, in collaboration with pianist and scholar Richard Stokes.

Alongside his solo work, Allyn is an active and versatile choral singer, performing with ensembles including the Monteverdi Choir, BBC Singers, Vox Luminis, The Sixteen, the Academy of Ancient Music, and Oxford Bach Soloists. He is currently a Monteverdi Apprentice with the Monteverdi Choir and an Emerging Artist with the Brighton Early Music Festival and sings regularly with the choirs of Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral, and Westminster Cathedral.

Allyn completed both his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music with Distinction, where he was a scholarship holder and studied with Mark Wildman, Raymond Connell, Marcus van den Akker, and Chad Vindin. He has also participated in masterclasses with leading artists including Dame Sarah Connolly, Nicky Spence, Mark Padmore, Elizabeth Watts, Dame Emma Kirkby, Iestyn Davies, and Mark Down.

Allyn is grateful for the generous support of the London Women’s Clinic Foundation Award and the Josephine Baker Trust.