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The English counter-tenor, Robin Blaze, read Music at Magdalen College, Oxford and won a post-graduate scholarship to the Royal College of Music where he trained with assistance from the Countess of Munster Trust, Windsor and now holds an Associate Professorship. He currently studies under Michael Chance and Ashley Stafford.
Now established in the front rank of interpreters of Purcell, Bach and Händel, Robin Blaze's busy schedule has taken him to Europe, South America, North America, Japan and Australia.
Robin Blaze works with most of the distinguished conductors in the early music field – Harry Christophers, Stephen Cleobury, John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Herreweghe, Richard Hickox, Christopher Hogwood, René Jacobs, Robert King, Ton Koopman, Kraemer, Gustav Leonhardt, Paul McCreesh, Nicholas McGegan, Trevor Pinnock, Massaki Suzuki. He has visited festivals in Ambronay, Arolsen, Barossa Valley, Beaune, Boston, Halle, Jerusalem, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Lucerne, Saintes and Utrecht. He regularly appears with The Academy of Ancient Music, Bach Collegium Japan, Collegium Vocale Gent, The English Concert, The Gabrieli Consort, The King’s Consort, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, RIAS Kammerchor and The Sixteen. Other engagements have included La Chapelle Royale, City of London Sinfonia, Collegium Musicum 90, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Northern Sinfonia, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Tafelmusik.
Robin Blaze’s opera engagements have included Bertarido Rodelinda at the Göttingen Händel Festival/Nicholas McGegan and Anfinomo Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria at the Teatro Sao Carlos, Lisbon with The Sixteen/Harry Christophers.
Chamber music is an important part of Robin Blaze’s musical life and he regularly joins forces with Concordia, Fretwork and The Palladian Ensemble. He has given recitals at the Théâtre Grévin in Paris, in Karlsruhe, Göttingen, for BBC Radio 3 and has appeared at The Wigmore Hall with Graham Johnson. His lute song programmes with Elizabeth Kenny are popular throughout Europe and Japan.
With a fast-growing number of acclaimed recordings to his name Robin Blaze continues to enjoy fruitful relationships with BIS and Hyperion records. For BIS he is adding to their Cantata Cycle with Bach Collegium Japan and his recent projects with Hyperion include two recital discs of lute songs with Elizabeth Kenny and Salve Regina, a programme of Italian Cantatas with The Parley of Instruments. Amongst his other recordings are Didymus in Theodora with The Gabrieli Consort/Paul McCreesh for DG Archiv, Vivaldi, Kuhnau and Knüpfer with The King’s Consort, Blow and Gibbons Anthems with the Choir of Winchester Cathedral /David Hill all for Hyperion and Purcell Odes with Collegium Vocale Gent/Herreweghe for Harmonia Mundi.
Robin Blaze will visit the festivals at Göttingen, Innsbruck, Gloucester Three Choirs and Edinburgh this summer. In the 2001-2002 season he sings Bertarido Rodelinda for Glyndebourne Touring Opera and makes debut appearances with the National Symphony Orchestra, Washington and the St Paul Chamber Orchestra. 2002-2003 engagements include USA tours with Bach Collegium Japan and The King's Consort as well as his Royal Opera House debut as Athamas in Semele with Sir Charles MacKerras and Didymus Theodora for Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He will return to Göttingen in 2004 for the title role of Händel's Rinaldo. |
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