ANDREW KING
ANDREW KING, tenor, studied at St John’s College, Durham and King’s College Cambridge. He is acknowledged as a leading interpreter of Renaissance and Baroque music, and is much in demand as an oratorio singer, particularly for the Bach Passions which he has performed throughout England, in France, Germany, Holland, Italy and Northern Ireland. His love of chamber music is exemplified with the Consort of Musicke, Musicians of the Globe, New London Consort and Pro Cantione Antiqua. He is the director of the Renaissance Ensemble, which recently gave three highly successful performances of a Monteverdi programme in Boxgrove Priory, London and Oxford. He has also performed many works by contemporary composers, including world premieres by Judith Bingham, John Joubert and Mark-Antony Turnage.
On the operatic stage he has appeared in masques and operas, including Monteverdi’s Orfeo in Oslo, Peri’s Eurideca at the Drottningholms Slottsteater in Sweden; last year he played the part of The Chamberlain in Locke & Gibbons’ Cupid and Death and the part of The Sailor in Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations at the Royal Festival Hall.
He travels extensively around the word, has appeared on television, is often broadcast on radio, and has made numerous recordings for ASV, Decca, Etcetera, Hyperion, Musica Oscura, Philips and Virgin Classics. He has been invited to teach in Israel, Italy, Poland, Sweden and in England where he is teaching at the Birmingham Conservatoire.
