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Michael George
Michael George is firmly established as one of Britain's most versatile bass-baritones. He started his musical training as a chorister at King's College, Cambridge under Sir David Willcocks, and later went on to study at the Royal College of Music, where he was a major prize-winner. He has appeared with all the leading UK orchestras and ensembles, has sung throughout Britain at all the major festivals and venues and has performed extensively abroad.
Michael has worked widely as a recording artist, and releases include Schubert's Mass in Ab with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with the RLPO and Vernon Handley, Haydn’s The Creation with the Academy of Ancient Music and Christopher Hogwood, Boyce Odes with the Hanover Band, Bach Cantatas and Masses with King's College Cambridge and Stephen Cleobury, Handel’s Samson, Esther, Alexander’s Feast and Chandos Anthems with Harry Christophers and The Sixteen, Handel’s Joshua, Acis and Galatea, Judas Maccabeus and Ottone as well as the complete Purcell series with Robert King and The King's Consort, and over twenty discs with Philip Pickett and the New London Consort, including Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers and Orfeo.
Notable performances have included Bach's St Matthew Passion with David Hill and the Bach Choir, Purcell's Faerie Queen in The Netherlands, Schubert Mass in A flat with Riccardo Muti, Elgar's The Apostles at the Three Choirs Festival, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Hallé and Mark Elder, Beethoven's 9th Symphony with Sir Neville Marriner in Brisbane and major tours of Handel's Messiah with Harry Christophers and The Sixteen in Europe and Japan. He has sung Mozart's Requiem with the Vienna Philharmonic and also with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Bach's St John Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the LPO.
Further engagements have included Cadmus and Somnus in Handel’s Semele and Don Fernando in Beethoven’s Fidelio for Scottish Opera, Verdi's Requiem and L'enfance du Christ in Odense, performances of Orfeo for Philip Pickett, Handel’s Messiah in Aarhus, Paris and with the RLPO, Haydn's The Seasons with St Louis Symphony Orchestra, Mozart's Requiem with the Bach Choir, Saul in Kroningen, St John Passion with the Irish Baroque Orchestra, Riccardo Primo for Kammerorchester Basel, Brahms Requiem at the Istanbul Festival and Dream of Gerontius at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge.
Engagements in 2007/2008 include Messiah with the Halle Orchestra and with the RSNO, Christmas Oratorio for the Three Choirs Festival, Mass in B Minor at Bridgewater Hall and concerts throughout Europe with Philip Picket.
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