Tom Butler read Music at St John’s College, Cambridge, and is currently studying in the Royal Academy Opera School at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studies under Mark Wildman and Iain Ledingham.

Tom’s operatic engagements include performing various roles in an Opera Gala at Château de Panloy, France with Westminster Opera Company (2024), and at Ryedale Festival where he sang Adonis in Blow’s Venus and Adonis. In 2025, Tom performed as Escamillo in the Royal Academy of Music’s production of Bizet’s Carmen. In Royal Academy of Music opera scenes, his roles have included Wozzeck in Berg’s Wozzeck, Marcello in Puccini’s La Bohème, and the Count in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. Other appearances include Eisenstein (Strauss, Die Fledermaus) with the Cambridge University Opera Society (CUOS), Figaro (Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro) and Achilla (Handel, Giulio Cesare) with the Trinity College Music Society, and the Twin Brothers (Schubert, Die Zwillingsbrüder) with CUOS.

Tom presented a recital of Brahms songs and duets at Ryedale Festival in 2024 accompanied by Christopher Glynn and singing with Caroline Blair. A keen performer of contemporary music, Tom gave the world premiere of a new song cycle by composer Tim Watts at the Our Place in Space Festival. Tom has been the recipient of various awards, including the Michael Head Song Prize (2025), the Postgraduate Vocal Prize at the Royal Academy of Music (2024), the Donald Wort Prize at Cambridge (2021), and First Prize in the Clare College Song Competition (2021). Both the Postgraduate Vocal Prize and Donald Wort Prize were awarded for attaining the highest final recital mark in his year at each institution respectively. He was also a finalist in the Richard Lewis Competition (2024).

His concert work includes recent performances as a soloist with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Bruckner Choir in Bach’s Mass in B Minor at St John’s Smith Square (2025), Haydn’s The Creation at the same venue (2024), Handel’s Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music at Westminster Abbey (2023), and Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at Christchurch Priory (2023). He has also appeared as a soloist with the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. 

Tom’s notable performances at Cambridge include his role as a soloist on Magnificat 3 with St John’s College Choir, and on the recording of Chesnokov’s All-Night Vigil with St John’s Voices. He has also appeared as a soloist with St John’s College Choir on BBC Radio 3 and 4 broadcasts.

Tom is a Lay Vicar in the choir of Westminster Abbey, where he performed for the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III.