ROBERT MURRAY
Robert Murray, tenor, was born in Essex in 1976, and began his musical training as a chorister at Brentwood Cathedral. In 1997 he graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, with a BA Hons in Music.
Robert studied at the Royal College of Music and the National Opera Studio. He won second prize in the Kathleen Ferrier awards 2003. He is currently a Jette Parker Young Artist at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Operatic roles at the Royal Opera House include Tamino ('Die Zauberflote'), Borsa ('Rigoletto'), Gastone ('La Traviata') and Harry ( 'La fanciulla del West'). Future roles at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden include Lysander ('A Midsummer Night’s Dream'), Pong ('Turandot'), Agenore ('Il re Pastore'), Jacquino ('Fidelio') and Don Ottavio ('Don Giovanni'). He will also sing the title role in Albert Herring for Glyndebourne Touring Opera..
He has sung in concert with many of the leading early music specialists including Haydn Nelson Mass at the BBC proms at the Royal Albert Hall with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Handel’s Messiah with Harry Christophers and The Sixteen in Japan. He also performed Britten’s War Requiem with Simone Young at Snape Maltings in the Aldeburgh festival. Future concert engagements include Mozart’s C Minor Mass with Emmanuelle Haim and Le Concert d’astree and Evangelist in Bach’s St John Passion in the London Handel Festival at St John’s, Smith Square.
In recital he has performed Die Schone Mullerin extensively with Malcolm Martineau and recently recorded a recital for Voices on BBC Radio 3 of Brahms Poulenc and Barber with Simon Lepper.
