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Male Classical VocalistMicheal was a fellow vocal tutor at the Chichester University where Chip taught. He quite simply has one of the most beautiful voices we have ever heard! His tone is rich and warm, he is also magnificently handsome, always a bonus on stage!
A choral scholar at St. John’s College, Cambridge, he subsequently joined Westminster Abbey Choir, studying singing with Otakar Kraus. His concert and opera career has since encompassed travels to China, Canada, Brazil and the Philippines. He was the winner of the first English Song Award at the Brighton Festival, rewarded with a critically acclaimed debut recital in the Wigmore Hall.
He has given solo performances at most of the major festivals throughout Europe, and his numerous London appearances include Handel’s Messiah and Haydn’s Creation at the Barbican, Verdi’s Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall, Brahms’ Requiem and Mahler’s 8th Symphony at the Royal Festival Hall and many concerts at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Michael’s commercial recordings include Handel’s Coronation Anthem (Westminster Abbey Choir; conductor Simon Preston) and Bach’s B minor Mass (live recording: Edinburgh Festival 1990). He has also recorded the part of Bam in Holliger’s short opera What Where. He has given numerous radio broadcasts and recitals, both on the BBC and abroad, whilst his TV appear-ances include Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast at the RTE Irish proms.
At the Royal Opera House he has given solo performances in Thérèse, Cappricio, Die Meistersinger (Ortel) and Salome. Elsewhere he was Dr P in The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat (Music Theatre Wales tour), Claudius in Agrippina with Midsummer Opera, Herald (The Burning Fiery Furnace) and Balstrode (Peter Grimes) – both with Kent Opera, Becket (Assassinio nella Cattedrale) with Oper Bergen, Tonio in I Pagliacci with Pimlico Opera, Lysiart in Euryanthe (Weber) with New Sussex Opera, Germont (La Traviata) with Opera Brava and Count Almaviva (Marriage of Figaro) with Kentish Opera. He sang Malcolm in Andrew Gant’s newly commissioned opera for the Lichfield International Festival, May we borrow your husband, and in his debut at Scottish Opera he created the role of Dundas (Horne: Friend of the People: world premiere 1999).
Michael’s concert performances this season include Mendelssohn’s Elijah at Guildford at Canterbury Cathedrals, Vaughan-Williams’ Sea Symphony at Farnham and Snape, Bach’s St John Passion at Oundle, Rossini’s Messe Solenelle in Cranleigh, a series of recitals in Southern England and Handel’s Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall.
Options: Micheal sings with either Piano or Organ accompaniment.
