Tamsin Collison

Tamsin Collison is a librettist. Her commissions for English National Opera include ‘Pierrot: a Biography’ and ‘For the Public Good’, with composer Orlando Gough; children’s operas‘Lionhunt’, (for Year 2), and ‘The Ballad of Slippery Jack’ (for Year 5), with John Webb; and ‘Mr. Purcell: His Ground’, with David Knotts. She has also contributed to two works for vocal group The Shout - ‘Stand’ , which was also performed at the BBC Proms in 2006, and ‘Open Port: We Turned on the Light’, a large-scale choral piece commissioned to mark the end of Stavanger’s year as City of Culture in 2008. Tamsin is a graduate of ENO’s performance course ’The Knack’ and ROH’s writing course ‘The Singing Word’ and is a current member of the London songwriters’ workshop ‘Book, Music and Lyrics’.