British tenor Hugo Hymas is in much demand for his interpretations of the baroque and renaissance repertoire and enjoys collaborations with the foremost practitioners of the genre.​ His 24/25 season reflects many established relationships: he sings Bach St John Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Jonathan Cohen as well making his début with Les Violons du Roy with the same conductor. He joins John Butt for Handel Esther with The English Concert and for Bach with the Dunedin Consort and he sings Messiah with both the Sinfonieorchester Basel and the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich under Ivor Bolton. Hymas will make his Bergen Philharmonic debut with Bach Weihnachts-Oratorium under Dinis Sousa.

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He returns to Potsdamer Winteroper to sing Clotarco (Haydn Armida), performs Alessandro (Handel Poro) in a semi-staging with {oh!} Orkester under Martyna Pastuszka and reprises one of his signature roles, Acis (Acis and Galatea) with Vox Luminis under Lionel Meunier. Engaging with more recent repertoire Hymas will record Stravinsky Cantata with The Façade Ensemble under Benedict Collins Rice and collaborates with Leicester International Music Festival (Artistic Director Nicholas Daniel) performing Warlock, Vaughan Williams, Tippet and Elena Langer.

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Amongst his significant previous engagements are Jove (Semele) for Glyndebourne Festival Opera (available on Glyndebourne Encore), Eurimaco (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria) at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Lucius in the premiere of Georgio Battistelli Julius Caesar at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. He has performed and recorded Handel’s sacred oratorio La Resurrezione with The English Concert and Harry Bicket and Purcell with Arcangelo under Cohen, sung Purcell and Handel with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra directed by Kristian Bezuidenhout, Haydn Die Schöpfung with Les Arts Florissants under William Christie and the St Matthew Passion with Collegium Vocale Gent under Philippe Herreweghe.​ Hymas has undertaken major European tours of the Bach B Minor Mass with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Václav Luks as well as Semele with Monteverdi Choir under Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

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Hymas is a former Britten Pears Young Artist and Rising Star of the Enlightenment. He grew up in Cambridge where he sang as a chorister in Great St Mary’s Church Choir and studied the clarinet after which he joined the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge as a tenor. He holds an honours degree in Music from the University of Durham.