Biography

Ugandan baritone Terence Ayebare turned to full-time vocal study after training as an Electrical Engineer in Uganda and taking singing lessons at Kampala Music School under the tuition of Ulrike Wilson, LRSM, and studied singing at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.

At the RNCM, where he completed his Master of Music degree, he was prize-winner of the Bessie Cronshaw/Frost Brownson Song Cycle Competition and the John Cameron Lieder Prize, and sang the roles of Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, and played the Narrator, Martin and Pangloss in Leonard Bernstein’s Candide under the tuition of Peter Alexander Wilson, with whom he continues to study. In August 2010, he sang the role of Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan Tutte for performances at the Lyric Opera Studio in Weimar.

Terence is a regular oratorio soloist in, among others, Bach’s St. John Passion, the requiems of Fauré, Duruflé and Mozart, Mendelssohn’s Elijah (Elijah), Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs and Handel’s Messiah, and also performs in song recitals in a continuation of thriving musical collaborations formed with young aspiring pianists Ivan Kiwuwa, Daniel Browell and Matthew Kam during his conservatoire training. He also teaches singing privately from his home in Salford, Greater Manchester.