Toluwani Idowu

Toluwani is a mezzo-soprano from Dundee and a recent music graduate of the University of Manchester. She was a Diocese of Manchester Choral Scholar for the past two years under Andrew Earis, the musical director at St Martin in the Fields, London and is currently Alto Lay Clerk at Blackburn Cathedral.

She was a member of the thirteenth cohort of Genesis Sixteen working under Harry Christophers and Eamonn Dougan. She has sung for groups such as the BBC Daily Service Singers and under composers such as Karl Jenkins. She is a founding member of the Mancunium Consort, a growing early vocal ensemble based in Manchester. In her time at the University, she was the the first 1st year soloist to sing alongside the orchestra in the University’s history, performing the alto solo in Tippet’s A Child of our Time. She played the part of Roxie, a principal role in the University’s production of Mrs President by Victoria Bond in her second year of study and has worked as an alto soloist in an array of choral society’s across the UK.