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Robin Blaze Countertenor Robin Blaze Countertenor Established in the front rank of interpreters of discs of lute songs with Elizabeth Kenny, Byrd Purcell, Bach and Handel, Robin Blaze's busy Consort Songs and Salve Regina, a programme schedule has taken him to Europe, South of Italian Cantatas with The Parley of America, North America, Japan and Australia. Instruments. Amongst his other recordings are He read Music at Magdalen College, Oxford and Didymus in Theodora with The Gabrieli Consort won a post-graduate scholarship to the Royal and McCreesh for DG Archiv, Vivaldi, Kuhnau College of Music where he trained with and Knüpfer with The King's Consort, all for assistance from the Countess of Munster Trust Hyperion, and Purcell’s Odes with Collegium and is now a Professor of Vocal Studies. Vocale Gent and Herreweghe for Harmonia Mundi. He also recorded Thomas Adès’ The He has worked with most of the distinguished Lover in Winter for EMI. His disc of solo Bach conductors in the early music field - Cantatas with Masaaki Suzuki was released at Christophers, Cleobury, Gardiner, Herreweghe, the beginning of 2007 on the BIS label. Hogwood, Jacobs, King, Koopman, Kraemer, Leonhardt, McCreesh, McGegan, Mackerras, Other notable engagements include Umana Pinnock and Suzuki. He has visited festivals in fragilitá Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria for The Ambronay, Beaune, Boston, Edinburgh, Halle, Grange Festival, Didymus Theodora at the Iceland, Jerusalem, Innsbruck, Karlsruhe, Göttingen Handel Festival, Medoro Orlando Leipzig, Lucerne, Saintes and Utrecht. He has with Welsh National Opera, Handel’s Messiah appeared regularly with The Academy of with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia, the Ancient Music, Bach Collegium Japan, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Handel Collegium Vocale, The English Concert, The and Haydn Society, a tour of Bach’s Christmas Gabrieli Consort, The Dunedin Consort, The Oratorio with the Orchestra of the Age of King’s Consort, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, performances of Bach Cantatas Enlightenment, RIAS Kammerchor and The with the Nederlandse Bach Vereniging, Bach’s St Sixteen. Other engagements have included the Matthew Passion with the Bach Collegium National Symphony Orchestra, Washington, the Japan, and a recital at the Jacqueline du Pré St Paul Chamber Orchestra, La Chapelle Royale, Music Building. City of London Sinfonia, Netherlands Radio “Robin Blaze just shines literally Philharmonic, Royal Flanders Philharmonic, Recent and future highlights include Handel’s BBC Philharmonic, The Hallé Orchestra, Royal Esther with The King’s Consort, Bach’s throughout this disc...Blaze is an Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Northern Christmas Oratorio with the Minnesota extraordinary interpreter when Sinfonia, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra and the Copenhagen Philharmonic Tafelmusik, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, the Orchestra, Purcell Odes at the Berlioz Festival it comes to sensitivity to text. I Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and with The King’s Consort, Bach’s B Minor Mass the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. with The Bach Choir, Handel’s Messiah with the don't think I've ever heard such Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Robin’s opera engagements have included Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Bach’s a seductive, limpid beauty of Athamas Semele at The Royal Opera House; Magnificat with La Chapelle Harmonique, tone that has so much emotion Didymus Theodora for Glyndebourne Festival performances of Bach Cantatas and Pergolesi’s Opera; Arsamenes Xerxes, Athamas Semele, Salve Regina with Florilegium at Wigmore Hall, behind it.” Hamor Jephtha and Oberon A Midsummer a recital with world-renowned lutenist Elizabeth Night's Dream for English National Opera; Kenny at Carnegie Hall, and Robin also BBC Radio 3 Hamor Jephtha for Welsh National Opera; continues his collaboration with the BCJ with Arcane in Handel’s Teseo at the Göttingen concerts in Japan and in Europe. Handel Festival, and Bertarido Rodelinda for Glyndebourne Touring Opera and at the Göttingen Handel Festival. Valid for use until 1 February 2022 Chamber music is an important part of his For updated versions please contact musical life and Robin regularly joins forces [email protected] with Concordia, Fretwork, Florilegium and The Palladian Ensemble. He has given recitals in Tenerife, at the Théâtre Grévin in Paris, in Karlsruhe, Innsbruck, Göttingen, at the York Early Music, West Cork International Chamber Music, Sherbourne and Gloucester Three Choirs Festivals, for BBC Radio 3 and at The Wigmore Hall. With a fast-growing number of acclaimed recordings to his name Robin continues to enjoy fruitful relationships with BIS and Hyperion records. For BIS he is adding to their Cantata Cycle with Bach Collegium Japan and joined Carolyn Sampson for a disc of Handel Oratorio Duets with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Nicholas Kraemer. His projects with Hyperion have included recital Rayfield Allied Member of the International Artist 9-12 The Stableyard Managers’ Association Broomgrove Road London, SW9 9TL, UK Rayfield Allied acts as agent only and can www.rayfieldallied.com accept no responsibility as principal E-mail [email protected] Telephone +44 (0) 20 3176 5500 Facsimile +44 (0) 700 602 4143 .
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