Peter Harvey Baritone

Peter Harvey arrived at Magdalen College, His return to the Song repertoire has taken him Oxford to study French and German, and though to European festivals, performing Schubert's he soon afterwards changed course to music, his Winterreise with Roger Vignoles; he also love of languages has always remained at the recorded it with fortepianist Gary Cooper for heart of his singing. He went on to study at the Linn Records, as well as Beethoven settings of Guildhall School of Music London, where he won Scottish folksongs with Jérôme Hantaï's prizes in a number of international singing fortepiano trio for Naïve. competitions, including the Walther Grüner International Lieder Competition, English Song Recent releases include Bach Cantatas with Award, and Peter Pears Award. He has made Gächinger Cantorey and Hans-Christoph well over a hundred recordings in repertoire Rademann (Accentus), Bach’s St Matthew spanning eight centuries, with an emphasis on Passion with the York Baroque Soloists music from the High Baroque. (Signum) and Kammerchor Stuttgart (Carus), Mass in B minor with Concerto Copenhagen With the English Baroque Soloists and the (CPO), Handel’s Israel in Egypt with Le concert Monteverdi Choir, directed by Sir John Eliot Lorrain (Etcetera) and L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed Gardiner, he was a key participant in the Bach il Moderato with the Gabrieli Consort (Signum), Cantata Pilgrimage, recordings of which include a work which he performed on tour last season the celebrated solo cantata Ich habe genug. with Bach-Stiftung St. Gallen, and a disc “Bach More recently he sang Christus St John Passion Cantatas: Recreation for the Soul”, with the with them at the BBC Proms. A long-standing Magdalena Consort, which Peter founded and soloist with Paul McCreesh's Gabrieli Consort, directs and which focuses on the vocal music of he sang Adam in their recording of Haydn The J.S. Bach. They have given concerts in Spain, Creation (winner of a 'Grammy' Award) and has Germany and in the UK at the Cheltenham appeared in their recordings of St Matthew Festival. Passion, Solomon and the Monteverdi Vespers (Deutsche Grammophon) as well as numerous Peter has recently added the operatic roles of concerts at major concert halls worldwide. Sprecher Die Zauberflöte (Budapest Festival Other groups he regularly performs and records Orchestra under Iván Fischer, where he has with include The King’s Consort, Purcell Quartet recently returned for L'incoronazione di with Emma Kirkby (early Bach for Chandos) and Poppea) and Papageno (Carmel Bach Festival London Baroque (Rameau for BIS), as well as with Paul Goodwin) to his repertoire, and “ appearances with The Sixteen, Retrospect appeared in Purcell’s Fairy Queen at Royal Harvey’s performance bristles Ensemble, Purcell Singers, Orchestra of the Age Danish Opera. Further current collaborations with musical intelligence, of Enlightenment, BBC National Orchestra of include the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Oslo Wales BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish Philharmonic, Akademie of Alte Musik Berlin, historical sensibility and National Orchestra and Academy of Ancient Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wroclaw Music. Baroque, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Mahler linguistic expertise” Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel, A fluent French speaker, he works and records Concertgebouw Orkest, Rotterdam The Observer with the Chapelle Royale and Collegium Vocale Philharmonic, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Israel Ghent (Philippe Herreweghe), Les Talens Camerata, Capella Cracoviensis, Holland Lyriques (Christophe Rousset), Le Concert Baroque, Swedish Chamber Orchestra Dunedin Spirituel (Hervé Niquet), Arsys Bourgogne, Consort, and, in North America, Tafelmusik Ensemble Vocal Lausanne and Jean-Claude Baroque Toronto, Orchestre Symphonique de Malgoire. Montréal, Early Music Vancouver, Oregon Bach Festival and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. His long association with the conductor Michel . Corboz, has taken him throughout France, Switzerland and Japan and produced various recordings, including two versions of the Fauré Valid for use until 1 February 2022 Requiem, the latest of which won a Choc de For updated versions please contact l'année. In Japan he also performed with [email protected] Masaaki Suzuki.

For the Netherlands Bach Society he has recorded Mozart Requiem, Bach Christmas Oratorio and B minor Mass. With Ton Koopman he has performed Bach in the Musikverein Vienna, Théâtre des Champs Elysées Paris, in Verona and Rome. In Germany he sings with Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, La Stagione Frankfurt, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Bach Akademie Stuttgart, and with Frieder Bernius' Stuttgart Chamber Choir.

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