BARRY GERALD WEBB
TENOR – COMPOSER –
SINGER SONGWRITER –
VOICE TEACHER – CONDUCTOR
Barry Gerald Webb
is a British tenor whose musical life began in Headington, Oxford, singing folk songs as a boy. He won the Morris Motors Folk Song Competition at the age of eleven with The Cuckoo, making a private recording of the song at Acorn Records. Those early years formed the beginnings of a career that would eventually reach some of Europe’s great musical stages.
After his studies in Cambridge, Manchester then Glasgow, Barry moved into the world of opera, singing with Scottish Opera, the Edinburgh Festival, and performing on BBC Radio Scotland. His London years brought solo roles including Don Ramiro in Cenerentola, Tamino in Magic Flute, Count Ory in the title role, and Lenski in Eugene Onegin. He has performed in opera gala evenings, notably on the magnificent ship the QE2 on her passage to New York, and in Monte Carlo.
He has sung with the Royal Opera House Chorus, the Bayreuth Festival Chorus, and the La Scala and Frankfurt Opera choruses. Barry has made extensive soundtrack recordings with London Voices — including Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings at Abbey Road.
Barry then spent significant time in Prague, where he taught himself composition and developed his chamber opera Nepomuk, inspired by his experiences in the Czech Republic and the city of Nepomuk. The work was performed in Liverpool in 2018 with support from Arts Council England.
Today, Barry is entering a new creative chapter. After a lifetime in classical music, he is preparing to announce a renewed artistic direction as a singer‑songwriter — drawing on the honesty of lived experience, and the belief that it is never too late to begin something new. This new direction will be shared soon, alongside a refreshed Patreon platform.