Peter Harvey

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Peter Harvey (* 1958 ) is an English classical singer ( baritone ).

Live and act

Harvey studied at Magdalen College in Oxford and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Baroque music is at the center of his repertoire. He kicked u. a. with Harry Christophers and The Sixteen , Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music , Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists , Gérard Lesne and Il Seminario Musicale , the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment , the Gabrieli Consort and the JS choir and orchestra Bach Foundation under Rudolf Lutz .

He appeared in Bach's St. Matthew and St. John Passions and Schubert's E-flat major Mass as well as numerous Bach cantatas. In the course of Gardiner's Bach Cantata Pilgrimage (2000), he made seventy live performances alone.

Harvey also sings works by contemporary composers. He appeared as St. John in a television performance of John Tavener's The Cry of the Ikon . In 2007 he toured the USA with the Netherlands Bach Society and performed a number of performances of Gabriel Fauré's Requiem with the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne under Michel Corboz in Japan. He performed Schubert's Winterreise with Roger Vignoles at the Cambridge and Lugo festivals .

Harvey has recorded more than 80 albums, including the Bach Passions and many of his cantatas, cantatas by Buxtehude , motets by Lully and Rameau , Faurés and Mozart's Requiem, and sacred music by Monteverdi .

He teaches as visiting professor at the Royal College of Music in London.

Recordings (selection)

DVD

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Product information on the JS Bach Foundation website, accessed on May 16, 2016.
  2. ↑ Product information on the JS Bach Foundation website, accessed on May 16, 2016.
  3. ↑ Booklet on the JS Bach Foundation website, accessed on May 17, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Harvey, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English classical singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH 1958