British-Italian baritone Filippo Turkheimer is this year’s ‘Rising Star of Voice’ at the Edinburgh International Festival, performing as a soloist with the Edinburgh Festival Chorus conducted by Sofi Jeannin, and in recital with soprano Louise Alder and pianist James Baillieu in Brahms’s ‘Neue Liebeslieder’.
In 2026 he appears as Nettuno in La liberazione di Ruggiero at the Buxton International Festival with Vache Baroque under Jonathan Darbourne. He also toured L’Orfeo with Lautten Compagney Berlin, performing the roles of Caronte in Bayreuth and Hamburg, and Plutone/Pastore in Salzburg (2025). Further engagements include the title role in Jephté (S. P. de Montclair) with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles and the Mozarteum (2025), Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with the Mozarteum OpernStudio (2024), and the roles of Kappadozier/Fünfter Jude in Salome and Dandini in La Cenerentola at the Immling Festival (2023).
Concert highlights in 2025/26 include performances of Handel’s Messiah (Instruments of Time & Truth) and Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Austria and Germany, alongside collaborations with ensembles including Parnassus Ensemble and Le Nuove Musiche on a tour of Slovakia, as well as a debut recital at the SongEasel Festival with pianist Jocelyn Freeman.
As a soloist, he has worked with conductors including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, György Vashegyi, Jörn Andresen, Vittorio Ghielmi, Howard Arman and Edward Higginbottom. An active Lied recitalist, he has recently collaborated with pianists Pauliina Tukiainen and Anastasia Kulikova, his long-standing duo partner.
He studied singing at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg and read Music at New College Oxford, where he was a Choral Scholar. He is a laureate of the 2025 Gustav Mahler Academy, a Projecto Canção Young Artist (2025), and a Haydeneum Scholarship holder (2025). His current teachers are Robert Dean and David Kempster.
