Howard Milner (Tenor) - Short Biography

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Howard Milner (Tenor)
Born: England
The English tenor, Howard Milner, was trained as clarinettist and was active as jazz musician from 1977 to 1980. Then, from 1983 to 1985 he studied singing with Rudolf Piernay in London, later with Janice Chapman in London. Since 1985 Howard Milner sang with the Glyndebourne Touring Opera, with which he also made guest appearance in 1986 in Hong Kong in Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten and in Capriccio by Richard Strauss. With the Kent Opera he could be heard in the title role of the Rossini’s Le Comte Ory, as Jacquino in Fidelio and as Eumete in Monteverdi’s Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria. For the Early Opera Society Project he sang in performances of Incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi; and also as Monostatos in Zauberflöte, with the Scottish Opera Glasgow in 1987 as Pedrillo in Entführung aus dem Serail and as Camille in Lehár’s Lustiger Witwe. In the 1990-1991 season he could be heard at the Covent Garden Opera London in Wagner’s Meistersingern and again in Capriccio, with the English National Opera London in 1988 as Squeak in Billy Budd by B. Britten. With Aix-en-Provence Chamber Opera he appeared as a guest in Haydn’s Lo Speziale, with the Opera Factory London as Don Curzio in Le Nozze di Figaro. In Europe as in North America Howard Milner could be characterised as concert singers in an extensive repertoire. Since 1988 he has worked with the London Promenade Concerts. Recordings: DGG (Mass in B minor (BWV 232) by J.S. Bach, Orfeo by Monteverdi), Naxos (Ascanio in Alba by Mozart), EMI (Choral Fantasy by Beethoven); EMI Video (Billy Budd).

Source: Operissimo Website, English translation by Aryeh Oron (April 2004) Contributed by Aryeh Oron (April 2004)
Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works
Conductor	As	Works
John Eliot Gardiner	Tenor	BWV 232
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