Richard Coxon studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he won a number of prizes, including the Clonter Opera Prize, the Ricordi Opera Prize and the Webster Booth/Esso Award.

International engagements have included Flute A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Monostatos Die Zauberflöte and Vanya Kudrjash Katya Kabanova for Florida Grand Opera, Gastone La traviata, Bill Flight and Tisiphone Hippolyte et Aricie for the Nationale Reisoper, ‘The Worker’ La Vida Breve for the Greek National Opera, Nemorino for Opera Zuid, Vanya Kudrjash Katya Kabanoa for the Opéra de Montréal, Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Progress for New Israeli Opera, Lieutenant Bonnet War and Peace and the Italian Tenor Der Rosenkavalier at the Spoleto Festival.

Engagements in Great Britain and Ireland have included Squeak Billy Budd, Mr By-Ends The Pilgrim’s Progress and Gastone La traviata for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Diego Bird of Night for the Royal Opera in the Linbury Studio Theatre, The Painter Lulu, Young Convict From the House of the Dead, Nick The Handmaid’s Tale, Brighella Aridane auf Naxos, Squeak Billy Budd, Fenton Falstaff and Peter Simple Sir John in Love all for English National Opera, Italian Tenor Der Rosenkavalier, ‘The Worker’ La Vida Breve and Songseller Il Tabarro, Gastone La traviata for Opera North, Jaquino Fidelio, Nemorino L’elisir d’amore, Don Ottavio Don Giovanni, Narraboth Salome, Alfredo La traviata, Flavio Norma and The Sailor Tristan und Isolde all for Scottish Opera, Bill Flight at Glyndebourne Festival, Piquillo La périchole and Edoardo Un giorno di regno at the Buxton Festival, Monostatos Die Zauberflöte and Bar-Tender La Fanciulla del West for Grange Park Opera, Ralph Rackstraw HMS Pinafore for Carl Rosa Productions and the Hallé Orchestra, Troilus Troilus and Cressida at the St Endellion Festival, Nemorino and Alfredo for Opera Northern Ireland, The Steurmann Der Fliegende Holländer Pang Turandot, The Motorcycle Cop Dead Man Walking and Flute A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Opera Ireland.

 

Richard Coxon has performed concerts with the Bergen Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra Orchestra, , BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, the Hallé Orchestra, London Medici, Manchester Camerata, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Richard Coxon’s concert repertoire includes Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Messiah, Elijah, Dvorak Stabat Mater, Rossini Stabat Mater and Petite Messe Solennelle, Mendelssohn St Paul and Verdi Requiem.

Richard Coxon’s recordings include Squeak Billy Budd, Lieutenant Bonnet War and Peace and Mr By-Ends The Pilgrim’s Progress for Chandos and Lucifer/Satan in Stravinsky’s The Flood for 20th Century Classics. He took the role of Sam in Don Boyd’s film Lucia and is the voice of Dashwood Fox in Geoff Dunbar’s animated version of The Cunning Little Vixen

Roles on television have included the role of The Vain Man The Little Prince for BBC Television, directed by Francesca Zambello, and Guido Buzz on the Moon which was commissioned from Jonathan Dove for Channel 4 Television.