Australian mezzo-soprano Ashlyn Tymms is rapidly carving out a distinguished and multifaceted career on the operatic stage, concert platform, and in chamber music and recital. Praised for her velvety voice of bright mezzo timbre, she continues to make significant strides in the classical music world.
In 2024, Ashlyn made her debut as Ježibaba in Rusalka, Dido in Dido and Aeneas for West Australian Opera and Fanny Price in Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park for New Zealand Opera. On the concert platform, Ashlyn performs alto soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, Mozart’s Requiem, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Queensland Symphony and Bach’s St. John Passion with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Concert work highlights include Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Asher Fisch and her debut at the Sydney Opera House in Handel’s Messiah.
Ashlyn’s engagements with West Australian Opera have featured roles such as her 2023 debut as Carmen, Emilia in Otello, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, Lapák & Mrs Paskova in The Cunning Little Vixen and Flora in La traviata.
After completing her Bachelor of Music at The University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Ashlyn graduated from the Royal College of Music in London, Master of Vocal Performance with Distinction as a HF Music Scholar. Ashlyn was awarded the Outstanding Australian Musician Award by the Royal Over-Seas League in London.
Recently Ashlyn was invited to sing newly commissioned work by Australian composer Melody Eötvös Hope. Fear. Anything. with Flinders Quartet at the Melbourne Recital Centre. Other career highlights include singing in Japan for Opera Australia, performing as Rosimonda in Handel's Faramondo at the London Handel Festival, Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music at Buckingham Palace, a recital tour to South Korea with the London Cello Orchestra and Verdi’s Requiem at Sydney Town Hall.
