Upcoming Projects in 2026:

Saturday 20th June: Kantos Chamber Choir - Hope on Earth
Saturday 4th July: Standard Issue - Spitalfields Festival
Friday 17th July: The Lyons Mouth - Brecon Choir Festival
October: West Australian Opera Chorus - Gounod's Roméo et Juliette

British bass-baritone David Valsamidis is currently based in London, having returned from a year in Perth, Western Australia. He is currently learning with Valentin Lundin.

Recent engagements include Course Staff on the Dunedin Consort's Scottish Choral Weekend and singing with The Lyons Mouth debuting their new Winged Voices programme. He is delighted to be joining new-music chamber ensemble Standard Issue in July for a new commission by Kate Milligan and a UK premiere of where once by Mary Kouyoumdijan.

He sang in the chorus of West Australian Opera in 2025 for Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance and Verdi's Il Trovatore and played Imperial Commissioner in Puccini's Madama Butterfly. He is returning to Perth in October 2026 for Gounod's Romeo and Juliet.

Having grown up in London, David moved north to the University of York and studied with Alex Ashworth and Robert Hollingworth with a focus on vocal chamber music. While there, he performed Belcore in Donizetti's L'Elisir d’Amore and Papageno in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with York Opera, as well as sang Polyphemus in Handel’s Acis and Galatea in Nottingham. At the University of York, he played The Earl of Dunmow in Lennox Berkeley’s A Dinner Engagement, and sang with British early-music ensemble I Fagiolini in Monteverdi’s Orfeo. In the UK, David is involved in the choral and oratorio scene, having performed with Tenebrae, I Fagiolini, Siglo De Oro and the Choir of York Minster.