CURRICULUM VITAE
POSTAL ADDRESS: 6 Riverside Drive, Mitcham, Surrey. CR4 4BU
EMAIL: [email protected] TELEPHONE No: +44 7973 954 744 (mobile)
Nationality: British Date of birth: 02/02/1969 Height: 5�8" / 1.75m
TRAINING:
1995 to 2001 trained as lyric tenor with Christopher Davies.
1996 & 1997 Meyer Lismann Opera Centre - course on performance, acting & movement in opera.
1998 � 2001 Continued studies with Delia Lindon & at Morley College.
2001 � 2003 Royal Northern College of Music postgraduate in Vocal & Opera Studies
PGDip (vocal tutor - Jeffrey Lawton)
2003 - 2005 retrained as Spinto-Dramatic tenor with Colin Baldy.
Currently working with: Colin Baldy (technique) - London, Nicoletta Conti (repertoire) - Bologna,
Charles Robin Broad (repertoire) - Saarbrucken.
Languages:
Spoken: Italian = good, German & French = competent, Russian = tourist.
Singing Experience in: Italian, English, Russian, French, German & Dutch.
Secondary Skills: Fencing (stage and competition).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
FULL ROLES PERFORMED FULLY STAGED WITH ORCHESTRA:
Puccini - La Boheme - Rodolfo in English for Sevenoaks Opera, April 2004
Caldwell - The Story of Orpheus - World Premiere - Baccante / Thysis for NCO, Oxford, 2004
Verdi - La Traviata - Alfredo in Italian for Harrow Opera, Ickenham Theatre 1999
Verdi - Il Trovatore - Manrico in English for West London Opera, Ealing Town Hall 1999
Gounod - Faust - Faust in Eng/Fre for Chorleywood Opera, Park Opera, Riverside Opera 1999
Verdi - Macbeth - Macduff in Italian for Harrow Opera, Ickenham Theatre 1997
Other Theatrical Performances including Educational Workshops:
Accademia Harmonica di Francesco Esposito - 4 Concerts of Prose and music in Italian
including Alcesti by Euripides - for a festival in Monte Sant' Angelo, Puglia, Italy July 04
Bizet - Carmen - DonJose in English for Q Opera (for schools), South of England 99-00
Mozart - Cos� fan tutte - Ferrando in English for H.M. Prison Canterbury 1997
Solo Performances in Concerts & Oratorios include:
Various concerts of classical music, light music and opera from 1997 to the present day, from Britten to G&S, including recently Handel Messiah and the Bach St. John Passion, both in Rome. Other oratorio performances include: Verdi Requiem, Puccini Messa di Gloria, Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle & Stabat Mater, Haydn Nelson Mass & Paukenmesse, Mozart Requiem & Beethoven Mass in C. Regular concert performances of opera excerpts and oratorios in Umbria, Italy.
TRAINING EXPERIENCE :
RNCM: Several concerts presenting excerpts fully staged and performed in the original language: Faust, Anna Bolena, Macbeth, Lucia di Lammermoor, & Mary Queen of Scots (Musgrave).
FULL ROLES PERFORMED AS PART OF TRAINING EXPERIENCE:
Strauss - Ariadne auf Naxos - Brighella in German, RNCM 2003
Andriessen - De Materie (Uk Premiere)- Gorleus in Dutch Cover cast, RNCM 2002
Tchaikovsky - Queen of Spades - Chorus in English, RNCM 2001
Monteverdi - L�Incoronazione di Poppea - Nero in English for AAC Opera for All, Wembley 1998
Mozart - Cos� fan tutte - Ferrando in Italian for Meyer Lismann Opera Company, Ealing 1997
MUSICAL REFEREES:
Nicoletta Conti email@: [email protected] or telephone:+39 338 932 6081
Colin Baldy email: [email protected] or telephone: 020 7735 7824
