Photo: Debbie Scanlon & Ben Cole
Ashley Riches
Representation: General Management
Ashley Riches is a Hazard Chase Young Associate Artist.
Ashley Riches studies on the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He holds a scholarship from the Guildhall, a Sybil Tutton Award administrated by the Musicians Benevolent Fund, an award from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Myra Verney Recital Prize from the Worshipful Company of Musicians and the John Hosier Award. In 2009 he received an Ian Fleming award from the Musicians Benevolent Fund and was the winner of the Guildhall School Aria Competition. Previously, he studied English at Cambridge University, where he was a member of the King's College Chapel Choir under Stephen Cleobury.
In concert he has given performances of Mozart Requiem with David Hill and the Bach Choir in the Royal Festival Hall, Britten War Requiem with Jan Latham-Koenig and Novaya Opera, Moscow and also with David Hill, Beethoven 9th Symphony and Brahms German Requiem with Stephen Cleobury, Fauré Requiem with Sir David Willcocks and Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs with John Rutter. He has given song recitals at Barbican Hall, the City of London Festival, Chelsea Schubert Festival and Ludlow Festival.
His operatic appearances include the title role in Don Giovanni, Marcello La Bohème, Sid Albert Herring, Aeneas Dido and Aeneas, Father Hansel and Gretel and King Mark in Frank Martin’s Le Vin Herbé.
Recent engagements include Haydn’s The Seasons in Winchester Cathedral, Brahms Requiem, Ibn-Hakia in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta at the Guildhall School, Bach Cantatas with the AAM and Richard Egarr at the Wigmore Hall and Handel's Israel in Egypt at Dartington with Jonathan Cohen.
Subsequent engagements are Mozart Requiem and Elgar The Dream of Gerontius with David Temple in London's Barbican Hall, Mozart Requiem with Stephen Cleobury and the Choir of King's College, Cambridge at King's Place, Faure Requiem King’s College Cambridge. Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia for BYO, Ford in Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the GSMD. Ashley is a Hazard Chase Young Associate Artist.
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Email: Lucie Davienne
