Incorporating Summer Music"Hitting all the right notes" "There is not any music of instruments whatsoever comparable to that which is made of the voices of men". "Since singing is so good a thing I wish all men would learn to sing" William Byrd 1588 |
Richard trained at King's College Cambridge and the Guildhall School of Music
and Drama. He has sung opera for ENO, Opera North, Glyndebourne, Almeida Opera
and the Monnaie in Brussels. He is a founder-member of the Songmakers'
Almanac. He has worked with the piano-accompanists Gerald Moore, Geoffrey
Parsons, Roger Vignoles and Graham Johnson.
His concert appearances have taken him to festivals in Edinburgh and Aldeburgh, and abroad to the USA, Hong Kong, Germany, Spain etc. He collaborated with Jonathan Miller in the staging of Bach’s St Matthew Passion; with Rostropovich in Eugene Onegin; and with Gian-Carlo Menotti in his opera Maria Golovin. Richard has made numerous TV, radio and CD recordings. He is a Professor at GSMD, RAM and TCM, and takes master classes in Australia. He has been a member of the Jury for the Kathleen Ferrier Awards, and in 2007 will tour with ETO, and teach at Summer Schools in Islay and Dublin. |
