Ashlyn Tymms

Mezzo-soprano Ashlyn Tymms has established herself as one of Australia’s most exciting young artists, recently winning the top prize at the 2025 Opera Awards.

She has a particularly strong association with West Australian Opera, where she has performed the title role in Carmen, Ježibaba in Rusalka, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, Flora in La traviata, Emilia in Otello, and Lapák and Pásková in The Cunning Little Vixen. In 2026, she returns to the company as Olga in Eugene Onegin and reprises her portrayal of Flora. Further engagements include Ježibaba for Opera Queensland and Cain in Scarlatti’s Il primo omicidio for Pinchgut Opera. Ashlyn made her Opera Australia mainstage debut as Dorothée in Cinderella, returning the following season to sing Ježibaba.

As a concert soloist, Ashlyn is a frequent guest with the major Australian state orchestras in repertoire such as Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Mahler’s Symphonies No. 8 and No. 3, Mozart’s Requiem, Verdi’s Requiem, Bach’s St. John Passion, and Handel’s Messiah. She will make her debuts with the Sydney and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras in 2026.

Ashlyn is a passionate advocate of contemporary music, performing the Stewardess in Jonathan Dove’s Flight for State Opera South Australia, Judith in the world premiere of The Two Sisters with Tête à Tête Opera in the UK, and Fanny Price in Dove’s Mansfield Park for New Zealand Opera. She also premiered Melody Eötvös’s Hope. Fear. Anything. and Katy Abbott’s Splitting the Ambivalence with the Flinders Quartet at Melbourne Recital Centre.

A graduate of the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied as a HF Music Scholar and completed her Master of Vocal Performance with Distinction, Ashlyn was also awarded the Outstanding Australian Musician Award by the Royal Over-Seas League.

© Patrick Togher Artists’ Management 2026

Bio updated March 2026