Iestyn Davies has won praise for the power, fullness and sheer personality of his voice. A former choral scholar at St John's College, Cambridge, Iestyn studied at the Royal Academy of Music. At the outset of his career he made a great impression at the London Handel Festival Singing Competition in which he took the audience prize. Iestyn is an accomplished concert singer, having given memorable performances of Bach, Handel, Purcell and Mozart among others. In the UK he has appeared at Wigmore Hall, Snape Maltings, the Barbican and Queen's Hall, Edinburgh; in Paris at Cité de la Musique and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées; and at the Lateran Church in Rome as well as Dresden's Frauenkirke. Conductors with whom he has worked in concert include Frans Brüggen, John Eliot Gardiner, Ton Koopman, Stephen Layton and Lars-Ulrik Mortensen.