George Humphreys was born in Oxford, and studied at Wellington College and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he read Music and studied with David Lowe. He then attended the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying with Mark Wildman and Audrey Hyland.

The 2011-12 season will see Mr. Humphreys join the roster of English National Opera covering the title role in Fiona Shaw’s new production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. He will also make his role debut as Belcore in a new production of Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore with the Vorarlberger Landestheater in Bregenz. Acclaimed for his baroque interpretations, his season includes return engagements with the Bochum Symphony for J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and John Tavener’s “God is with us” under Harry Curtis, and to the London Handel Festival to sing J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion under Laurence Cummings. He also performs J.S. Bach’s Magnificat with the Northern Sinfonia under Simon Halsey, the Messiah with the London Mozart Players, the Fauré Requiem with the Liverpool Philharmonic, and J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor with Musica Saeculorum under Philipp von Steinaecker in Italy.

George Humphreys is a graduate of the International Opera Studio at the Zurich Opera House, where he sang in studio, as well as main stage productions, including Fafner in The Ring for Children, Imperial Commissioner in Madama Butterfly and Leuthold  in Guillaume Tell. In the 2010-11 season he made his debut as Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas with Opera Dijon, directed by Lilo Baur and conducted by Jonathan Cohen. He also sang the part of Christus in J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the London Handel Festival under Laurence Cummings.

His Operatic work has included the roles of Collatinus  in Rape of Lucretia and Balstrode  in Peter Grimes in Cambridge; Colline  in La Boheme with Wedmore Opera; Papageno  in The Magic Flute with the Palestine Mozart Festival; Masetto (Don Giovanni) and Superintendent Budd (Albert Herring) for British Youth Opera; Giove  in La Calisto, Melibeo  in La Fedelta Premiata and the title role in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro directed by John Copley and conducted by Sir Colin Davis for Royal Academy Opera.

Recent Concert highlights include performances of The Messiah with the Bochum Symphony, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and The Hanover Band, Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Singapore, Bach's Christmas Magnificat and Cantata 36 with the English Concert in Valencia, Handel’s Joshua at the London Handel Festival, Bach’s B Minor Mass with Trevor Pinnock, and Handel's L'Allegro under William Christie at the Spitalfields Festival and more recently at the Göttingen Handel Festival, as well as Herod in Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ under Sir Colin Davis.

Mr. Humphreys has also performed a wide repertoire of contemporary music, including Peter Maxwell Davies’ 8 Songs for a Mad King, and Schoenberg’s Serenade under Diego Masson in the South Bank Festival. He is an avid recital performer with recent appearances in the Oxford Lieder Festival, with Opernhaus Zürich, and at the Wigmore Hall.