Dawid Kimberg
Representation: General Management
Dawid was born in Johannesburg and moved to the UK in 2001 to further his studies at the Royal College of Music under the tutelage of Ryland Davies. He subsequently attended the National Opera Studio and between 2009 – 2011 was a member of the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme at Covent Garden. Dawid represented South Africa in the 2009 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.
His many oratorio performances include the major works of Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Dvorak, Vaughan Williams, Tippett, Britten, Orff, Puccini, Duruflé and others. In recital Dawid has appeared at the Wigmore Hall, performed Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin in the Crush Room at the Royal Opera House as well as many other performances of this work and others by Schumann, Wolf, Brahms, Beethoven, Mahler, Finzi, Britten, Vaughan-Williams, Fauré, Duparc throughout the UK. He was the 2004 winner of the Great Elm Vocal Awards and the recipient of the Joaninha Award in 2007.
Operatic roles include Dr.Falke Die Fledermaus for Bolshoi Opera in Moscow, Jokanaan Salome for Singapore Lyric Opera, Moralès Carmen for Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Creonte in Haydn’s L’animo del filosofo in Russia and Adonis Venus and Adonis for Transition Opera at Wilton’s Music Hall. At the Royal Opera House Covent Garden his roles include Flemish Deputy Don Carlo, The Steersman Tristan und Isolde, Potapych The Gambler, Marullo Rigoletto, 2nd Prisoner Fidelio, Moralès Carmen (filmed and broadcast in 3D), Surintendant des Plaisirs Cendrillon (filmed for DVD and broadcast) as well as covering the roles of Forester Cunning Little Vixen, Mr. Astley The Gambler, Malatesta Don Pasquale, Ned Keene Peter Grimes and Figaro Il barbiere di Siviglia. Dawid recently sang Leuthold in Rossini’s Guillaume Tell at the Santa Cecilia in Rome with Maestro Pappano, recorded live for EMI.
Future engagements include Guglielmo Cosi fan tutte for Opera Holland Park, Il Conte Almaviva Le Nozze di Figaro for Glyndebourne Touring Opera and Mr. Gedge Albert Herring for Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse.
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