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The English-born bass-baritone, Hugh Davies, started his singing career as a boy chorister at St. Albans Abbey under the direction of Peter Hurford and Simon Preston. While a student at Cambridge University, he was a Choral Scholar at King's College, where the director of music was David Willcocks.
As a professional singer based in London, Hugh Davies appeared with Glyndebourne Opera and the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and performed as a soloist with leading choirs and orchestras throughout Europe. He was a member of the Monteverdi Choir (Director: John Eliot Gardiner), Schütz Choir and John Alldis Choir, and made many recordings and broadcasts on television and radio. After teaching music in Australia for two years, he moved to California in 1986.
Hugh Davies now sings, mostly in the San Francisco area, both as a soloist and as a member of several professional ensembles, and has appeared with groups such as Theatre of Voices, American Bach Soloists (Director: Jeffrey Thomas), California Bach Society, Magnificat, Albany Consort, San Francisco Bach Choir, Santa Rosa Symphony, Sonoma County Bach Choir and Symphony Silicon Valley. He has also appeared with Boston-based Cut Circle and, in Southern California, with Pacific Chorale and Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra. He is also President of ACFEA Tour Consultants, an organization that arranges international tours for amateur performing arts ensembles, and serves on the boards of American Bach Soloists and Chorus America. |
