Jake Arditti

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Jake Arditti is a British counter tenor .

Life

The son of the founder of the Arditti Quartet , Irvine Arditti , and the stepson of the Mexican composer Hilda Paredes , has already performed as a boy soprano at the English National Opera and at the Glyndebourne Festival - as Yniold in Pelléas et Mélisande . He also sang as a boy in the TV series Gormenghast . He completed his vocal studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at the Opera School of the Royal College of Music in London with Andrew Watts and Russell Smythe . He has received grants from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Josephine Baker Trust and the Drapers Company, as well as the Baroness de Turckheim Scholarship. In 2012 he was a finalist at the Antonio Cesti Competition for Baroque Opera in Innsbruck and won a special prize.

On stage

Georg Friedrich Handel , renaissance and baroque music on the one hand, modern music on the other, are the main focuses of Arditti. His career began on theaters at the Royal National Theater , where he appeared and sang in The Revenger's Tragedy and Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage , and in Laurie Sansom's production of The Duchess of Malfi at The Royal and Derngate Theater in Northampton .

The singer achieved his breakthrough in 2013 as Othniel in Handel's Joshua at the Opera North of Leeds, the reviews were exuberant and the audience enthusiastic. Arditti has appeared with the English Touring Opera and the English National Opera , at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music and the Vienna Chamber Opera , in Lille and Lisbon, and at the Handel Festival in Göttingen and London. Step by step he works out a broad repertoire.

In the concert hall

Arditti performed with his father's Arditti Quartet at the Heidelberg Spring 2009, where he sang the Canciones Lunaticas of his mother, Hilda Paredes , and Respighi's Il Tramonto . He also presented the Canciones Lunaticas in 2011 at the Wigmore Hall in London, at the Wien Modern and Festival d'Automne Paris, in Edenkoben and Edinburgh , at the Palacio de Bellas Artes and at the Festival Cervantino in Mexico and in Tokyo. With his father's quartet he also interpreted works by the Renaissance composers Robert Dowland and Carlo Gesualdo . He returned to Heidelberg with the Turkish ensemble and the Soul to Soul program ("See what love made of me") and then interpreted the same program in the Cologne Philharmonic .

In 2013 he sang Benjamin Britten in Tony Britten's drama documentary : Peace and Conflict , which was dedicated to the British composer's pacifism .

Roles (selection)

In operas and oratorios by Georg Friedrich Handel

In operas by other composers

Award

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Outstanding" ( The Guardian and The Independent ), "A rising star countertenor" ( The Observer ) and "Noted for his Show-stealing riches of vocal color and stage presence" ( The Telegraph )
  2. ^ Opera North , Audience Voices, accessed December 7, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Arditti, Jake
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British countertenor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century