Tom Lilburn is an English countertenor based in Windsor, and won the New Voices Singing Competition at the 2026 Northern Aldborough Festival. This Autumn he will be singing Jonathan in Charpentier’s David and Jonathan with New Sussex Opera. Tom also sings with the choir at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, and in April 2021 he was one of four singers at the funeral of His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh.

Tom is an experienced oratorio soloist and recent performances include Bach’s St. John Passion, Mass in B Minor and St. Matthew Passion, Vivaldi’s Cessate, Omai Cessate, Handel’s Dixit Dominus, Theodora and Messiah, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Orff’s Carmina Burana. Concert highlights include Baroque arias in Milan with Florilegium, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms in the Platinum Jubilee Concert at St George’s Chapel, Windsor in June 2022 and solos in Handel’s Messiah in the Royal Albert Hall with The Really Big Chorus in 2023 and 2025.

Tom studied Natural Sciences at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he was a choral scholar, and he graduated with a 2:1 in 2016. Born in Solihull, he sang in the choir of St. Alphege Parish Church from the age of seven and was a finalist in the 2007 BBC Radio 2 Young Choristers of the Year.

Tom’s studies at the Royal College were generously supported by The Charlotte Fraser Foundation, The Royal Albert Institute, The Choir Association of St. John’s College, Cambridge, The Aylesford Family Charitable Trust and Marc Feigen. Tom is also supported by The Josephine Baker Trust, and is represented by Ann Ferrier.