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 ROBIN BLAZE
Countertenor
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"[Robin Blaze] just shines literally throughout this disc...Blaze is an extraordinary interpreter when it comes to sensitivity to text. I don't think I've ever heard such a seductive, limpid beauty of tone that has so much emotion behind it."
- BBC Radio 3 CD Review, April 08
Robin Blaze is now established in the front rank of interpreters of Purcell, Bach and Handel, and his career has taken him to concert halls and festivals in Europe, North and South America, Japan and Australia. He studied music at Magdalen College, Oxford and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music where he is now a professor of vocal studies. He works with many distinguished conductors in the early music field: Harry Christophers, Emmanuelle Haďm, Philippe Herreweghe, Richard Hickox, Christopher Hogwood, Ton Koopman, Paul Goodwin, Gustav Leonhardt, Robert King, Nicholas Kraemer, Sir Charles Mackerras, Trevor Pinnock and Sir John Eliot Gardiner. His work with Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan has been particularly praised by critics: the two latest CD releases, Bach's B Minor Mass and the three solo countertenor cantatas, have been described as "heart-stopping" in Gramophone.
Robin Blaze's opera engagements have included Athamas Semele at Covent Garden and English National Opera; Didymus Theodora for Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Arsamenes Xerxes, Oberon A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamor Jephtha for English National Opera; and Bertarido Rodelinda for Glyndebourne Touring Opera and at the Göttingen Handel Festival.
Concerts this season include Handel's Belshazzar with Manchester Camerata and Nicholas Kraemer, Bach's St Matthew Passion with Collegium Vocale Gent and Philippe Herreweghe, a Pergolesi recording and concerts all over Europe with Florilegium, Bach at the Wigmore Hall with the Retrospect Ensemble, Bach's Mass in B minor with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Thierry Fischer, and Robin also continues his collaboration with Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki.
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