Daniel Norman
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 in the St John Passion with Trevor Pinnock, 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 Scenes at the BBC Proms 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 new Glyndebourne production and in Porto, Tanzmeister in concert performances of Ariadne auf Naxos with Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO, Mao in Nixon in China for Opera Boston, 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, and in its Vienna and Boston premieres. 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 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). In December 2007 Daniel also appeared in a new Portuguese opera by Nuno Corte Real, The Bronze Boy, in Porto and Lisbon.
He has made several recordings including 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, Adès Powder Her Face on DVD, 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.
Engagements in 2008 include a R. Strauss & Tchaikovsky Recital at the Wigmore Hall, Mao Nixon in China at the Teatro Filharmonico for Fondazione di Arena di Verona, St John Passion for The King’s Consort, St Matthew Passion for the Sonderjyllands Symfonieorkester in Denmark, Carmina Burana at the Cheltenham Festival, Powder Her Face at the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Bob Boles Peter Grimes at the Endellion Festival, Judas in Birtwistle’s The Last Supper for London Sinfonietta in Italy, Mines of Sulphur at the Wexford Festival, Carmina Burana at the Royal Albert Hall and the release of his debut solo CD: Britten Winter Words and Who Are These Children? with Christopher Gould on BIS records. Subsequent engagements include his Covent Garden debut as Borsa Rigoletto and Martinu’s Mirandolina at the Garsington Festival.
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