Daniel Norman
Representation: General Management
Daniel Norman was a choral scholar at New College Oxford, where he read Engineering. He went on to study in the US and Canada and at the Royal Academy of Music. In his first year out of college he made his debuts at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with Trevor Pinnock (St John Passion), the Royal Festival Hall with David Atherton, the Wigmore Hall with Graham Johnson, Almeida Opera and the Aldeburgh Festival with David Parry and at the Barbican with Richard Hickox.
Since then, concert performances have included Britten War Requiem in Warsaw, Schumann Lieder with Julius Drake at the Wigmore Hall, Wozzeck with Daniel Harding and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Evangelist in Bach St John Passion at the Festival Hall, Tippett A Child of Our Time with the CBSO and the Northern Sinfonia, Britten Les Illuminations and Mozart Requiem with Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic, Die schöne Müllerin at the Holywell Music Room in Oxford, Britten Nocturne with Edward Gardner at St John’s Smith Square, Britten Serenade and Schubert Die schöne Müllerin in Tel Aviv, Britten St Nicolas at the Gulbenkian in Porto, Stravinsky Les Noces with Martha Argerich, Bach St Matthew Passion at the Concertgebouw, Beethoven 9th Symphony for Minnesota Orchestra and for the RPO, Holst Savitri with the Nash Ensemble, the role of Sam Kaplan in Weill’s Street Scene at the BBC Proms, a R. Strauss & Tchaikovsky Recital at the Wigmore Hall, St John Passion for The King’s Consort, St Matthew Passion for the Sønderjyllands Symfonieorkester in Denmark, Carmina Burana at the Cheltenham Festival and regular appearances at the Three Choirs, Cheltenham, Chelsea, Lichfield and Endellion Festivals.
Opera credits have included Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw in the Glyndebourne production and in Porto, Dr Blind Die Fledermaus for Glyndebourne on Tour, Tanzmeister in concert performances of Ariadne auf Naxos with Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO, Mao in Nixon in China for Opera Boston and at the Teatro Filharmonico for Fondazione di Arena di Verona, Scaramuccio in Ariadne auf Naxos for L’Opéra National de Paris and Tanzmeister in Ariadne at Garsington, Elemer in Arabella for Garsington Opera and the Electrician in Thomas Adès’s Powder Her Face both in David Alden’s Almeida/Aldeburgh production, made into a film for Channel 4, in its Vienna and Boston premieres, and at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg. With the Early Opera Company he played the title role in Thomas Arne’s Alfred at the Covent Garden Festival, Acis in Acis and Galatea and Oronte in Alcina. He played Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro for Opera Zuid, Hermes in Tippett’s King Priam with the Nationale Reis Opera (both in the Netherlands), Eurimaco in Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria and Valetto in L’Incoronazione di Poppea for the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich and New Israeli Opera and, to critical acclaim, performed the first official staging of all five Britten Canticles in Westminster Abbey with Streetwise Opera (working with London’s homeless). Recent engagements include a new Portuguese opera by Nuno Corte Real, The Bronze Boy, in Porto and Lisbon and Bob Boles Peter Grimes at the Endellion Festival.
Recordings include four volumes of the Hyperion Schubert Edition with Graham Johnson, Beethoven 9th Symphony with the Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä (Gramophone Editor’s Choice and nominated for a Grammy in Dec 2007), Maintop in Billy Budd with Richard Hickox and the London Symphony Orchestra, Slender in Sir John in Love by Vaughan Williams with Hickox and the Northern Sinfonia, Janacek Sedmdesat Tisic with the New London Chamber Choir, Orff’s Carmina Burana (Meridian), Brett Dean’s Winter Songs with the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (BIS) and Hugh Wood’s Comus with the BBCSO and Sir Andrew Davies.
Recent engagements include Judas in Birtwistle’s The Last Supper for London Sinfonietta in Italy, Fenney/Hugo Mines of Sulphur and Carmina Burana at the Wexford Festival and the release of his debut solo CD: Britten Winter Words and Who Are These Children? with Christopher Gould on BIS records, Argento’s Jonah & the Whale in Boston, Messiah at the Royal Festival Hall, Beethoven 9th Symphony at the Barbican Hall, Mozart Requiem at St Johns Smith Square and Britten St Nicolas with BBC Concert Orchestra. Engagements in 2009 include his Covent Garden debut as Borsa Rigoletto, Delius Mass of Life with the BBC Philharmonic, Mime Das Rheingold in Oxford, Haydn Stabat Mater with Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi, Stravinsky In Memoriam Dylan Thomas for CBSO, Martinu’s Mirandolina at the Garsington Festival, Maxwell Davies Taverner for BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven 9th Symphony with the RPO and Messiah for the Minnesota Orchestra & Chorale. Subsequent engagements include Basilio Le Nozze di Figaro for Garsington Opera.
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