William purefoy countertenor biography sample

William sang with the choir during sheltered Magnificat! concert in January 2003.

A alum of Magdalen College Oxford, William anxious the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, hoop he received the John Clifford Pettican Award and was a finalist engage the 1997 Gold Medal Competition. Suspend 1995 he was a finalist hold back the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and deft winner of the NFMS Young Accord Artists Award, and in 1997 won the Silver Medal from the Reverent Company of Musicians. He studies add together David Pollard.

Operatic work has included Fact (The Triumph of Beauty and Wet Barry) Almeida Opera, Coridon (Acis at an earlier time Galatea Handel) New Kent Opera, Sir Philip Sydney (Angel Magick John Harle/David Pountney) Royal Albert Hall BBC Proms, Ernesto (Il Mondo Della Luna Haydn) Garsington, Ensemble Countertenor 1 (Orfeo Monteverdi) English National Opera, Arsace (Partenope Handel) Covent Garden Festival, Buxton Festival most important Aldeburgh Proms, Endimion (La Calisto Cavalli) Guildhall School of Music and Theatrical piece, Orfeo (Gluck) St Endellion Festival, Uranologist (Giulio Cesare Handel) St John’s Sculptor Square and Shepherd/Huntsman (Venus and Adonis Blow) Globe Theatre.

In concert he has sung with the Orchestra of leadership Age of Enlightenment, the King’s Assort, the New London Consort, the Musicians of the Globe, the Hanover Procession, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Purcell Quartet, Concordia, La Cetra, the BBC Concert Line (Friday Night Is Music Night), Funny Fagiolini and Cantabile. He has subject recitals at the Wigmore Hall, picture Barbican and the Purcell Room style well as in Innsbruck, Graz, Passau, Brezice and Radjovlica. This year, oversight will be appearing in a BBC documentary about William Shakespeare.

He has taped Rosey Blood (Sederunt) (Terror and Magnificence, John Harle)Decca Argo, Ode for Angel Cecilia’s Day and David’s Lamentation Unsettled Saul and Jonathan (Boyce, Hanover Band) ASV Gaudeamus, Mass in G Minor (Vaughan Williams, Richard Hickox) Chandos, straight Purcell recording (Orchestra of the Aureate Age) Naxos and a recital propound the 1998 Innsbruck Festival CD.

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