Artists

Concert plans this season and beyond include tenor soloist for Handel Messiah with the Ulster Orchestra and Ruben Jais, the Huddersfield Choral Society and Jane Glover, and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Richard Egarr; Handel Dixit Dominus with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Laurence Cummings; Beethoven Missa Solemnis with Ex Cathedra and the CBSO under Jeffrey Skidmore; and Mozart C Minor Mass with Orchestre National de Lille and Jan Willem de Vriend. Forthcoming Bach performances include St Matthew Passion (tenor arias) with the Antwerp Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne; St John Passion (Evangelist) with the Academy of Ancient Music at King’s College, Cambridge; and Christmas Oratorio with the Dunedin Consort. He will make a return to the Royal Opera, Covent Garden in the new production by David McVicar of Death in Venice, conducted by Sir Mark Elder.

Recent highlights include Kudrjas in the new production by Richard Jones of Katya Kabanova, conducted by Edward Gardner at the Royal Opera House (winner of the Best New Opera Production at Olivier Awards 2019). Other appearances at the Royal Opera House include The Spirit of the Masque in Britten Gloriana, Simpleton Boris Godunov and Eurimaco Il RItorno d’Ulisse in Patria. He has also sung Peter Quint The Turn of the Screw for Lyon Opera; Bach Christmas Oratorio staged at the Theater an der Wien; Novice Billy Budd, Janek The Makropulos Case and Lurcanio Ariodante for Dutch National Opera; David Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg for Welsh National Opera; and Lucano Poppea and the tenor arias in Bach St Matthew Passion for Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

On the concert platform he has sung Horatio in Berlioz Lélio with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Beethoven Choral Fantasy at the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival; Mozart Requiem with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the LSO and Sir Colin Davis; Britten Les Illuminations with the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra and Ivor Bolton; Haydn Paukenmesse with the BBC SSO and Bernard Labadie; Haydn Nelson Mass with the Bach Choir and David Hill; Monteverdi L’Orfeo and Vespers at L’Opéra Royal de Versailles with the Monteverdi Choir and Sir John Eliot Gardiner; Acis in Handel Acis and Galatea with Academy of Ancient Music and Richard Egarr and Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with both the AAM and Aarhus Symphony Orchestra.

Andrew’s regular Bach appearances include Mass in B Minor and Magnificat with the SCO and Richard Egarr, and Mass in B Minor with the Dunedin Consort and John Butt; St Matthew Passion on a European tour with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Mark Padmore; Christmas Oratorio with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; Cantatas with Les Violons du Roy and Jonathan Cohen; and Evangelist and arias in St John Passion with Sir John Eliot Gardner, and with the Dunedin Consort at the 2017 BBC Proms.