Andrew Mayor was born in Manchester, and won a postgraduate scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music where he received various prizes. During his studies he sang Borilée in Rameau’s Les Borèades, conducted by Roger Norrington. At the 2002 Osterfestpiele in Salzburg Andrew was a soloist in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia at the Grossesfestspielhaus with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado. Other rôles include Silvio I Pagliacci for Castleward Opera, The Vicar (Albert Herring), Masetto (Don Giovanni) and Ford (Falstaff), for English Touring Opera, the Count (Le Nozze di Figaro), Rigoletto, Eugene Onegin and Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera all at the Holland Park Festival. He also covered Gunther in Ring des Nibelungen for Longborough Festival and sang Matthieu (Andrea Chenier) in the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Internationally, in 2002 Andrew took part in a nationwide tour of the USA performing Danilo (Die lustige Witwe) for Columbia Artists and in 2005 Andrew toured throughout Europe singing Sharpless in Madama Butterfly for Compagnia d’ Opera Italiana di Milano. Other recent international engagements have occured in Kuala Lumpur (Germont, La Traviata), Penang (Escamillo, Carmen), and concerts in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and the opera house in Manaus.

In November and December last year Andrew sang Starveling (A Midsummer Nights Dream) in the Linbury Theatre for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden conducted by Richard Hickox. Also in 2006 he sang Nabucco at the Richmond Theatre, Gianni Schicchi in the Teatro Communale Monteleone di Spoleto and the Music master in a concert performance of Ariadne auf Naxos at the Windsor Festival. Last season Andrew sang Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Edinburgh and Prospero in Berio’s Un Re In Ascolto at the Städtische Bühnen Münster. In the current season he sang Man 1 in Harrison Birtwhistle’s The IO Passion at the Konzerthaus, Berlin.