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Robin Blaze (Counter-tenor) |
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Born: England |
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The English counter-tenor, Robin Blaze, read Music at Magdalen College, Oxford and won a post-graduate scholarship to the Royal College of Music where he trained with assistance from the Countess of Munster Trust, Windsor and now holds an Associate Professorship. He currently studies under Michael Chance and Ashley Stafford.
Now established in the front rank of interpreters of Purcell, J.S. Bach and George Frideric Handel, Robin Blaze's busy schedule has taken him to Europe, South America, North America, Japan and Australia.
Robin Blaze works with most of the distinguished conductors in the early music field - Harry Christophers, Stephen Cleobury, John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Herreweghe, Richard Hickox, Christopher Hogwood, René Jacobs, Robert King, Ton Koopman, Nicholas Kraemer, Gustav Leonhardt, Paul McCreesh, Nicholas McGegan, Trevor Pinnock, Massaki Suzuki. He has visited festivals in Ambronay, Arolsen, Barossa Valley, Beaune, Boston, Halle, Jerusalem, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Lucerne, Saintes and Utrecht. He regularly appears with The Academy of Ancient Music, Bach Collegium Japan (Director: Masaaki Suzuki), Collegium Vocale Gent, The English Concert, The Gabrieli Consort, The King’s Consort, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, RIAS Kammerchor and The Sixteen. Other engagements have included La Chapelle Royale, City of London Sinfonia, Collegium Musicum 90, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Northern Sinfonia, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Tafelmusik.
Robin Blaze’s opera engagements have included Bertarido Rodelinda at the Göttingen Händel Festival/Nicholas McGegan and Anfinomo Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria at the Teatro Sao Carlos, Lisbon with The Sixteen/Harry Christophers.
Chamber music is an important part of Robin Blaze’s musical life and he regularly joins forces with Concordia, Fretwork and The Palladian Ensemble. He has given recitals at the Théâtre Grévin in Paris, in Karlsruhe, Göttingen, for BBC Radio 3 and has appeared at The Wigmore Hall with Graham Johnson. His lute song programmes with Elizabeth Kenny are popular throughout Europe and Japan.
With a fast-growing number of acclaimed recordings to his name Robin Blaze continues to enjoy fruitful relationships with BIS and Hyperion records. For BIS he is adding to their Cantata Cycle with Bach Collegium Japan and his recent projects with Hyperion include two recital discs of lute songs with Elizabeth Kenny and Salve Regina, a programme of Italian Cantatas with The Parley of Instruments. Amongst his other recordings are Didymus in Theodora with The Gabrieli Consort/Paul McCreesh for DG Archiv, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Kuhnau and Sebastian Knüpfer with The King’s Consort, Blow and Gibbons Anthems with the Winchester Cathedral Choir/David Hill all for Hyperion and Purcell's Odes with Collegium Vocale Gent/Philippe Herreweghe for Harmonia Mundi.
Robin Blaze will visit the festivals at Göttingen, Innsbruck, Gloucester Three Choirs and Edinburgh this summer. In the 2001-2002 season he sings Bertarido Rodelinda for Glyndebourne Touring Opera and makes debut appearances with the National Symphony Orchestra, Washington and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. 2002-2003 engagements include USA tours with Bach Collegium Japan (Director: Masaaki Suzuki) and The King's Consort as well as his Royal Opera House debut as Athamas in Semele with Sir Charles MacKerras and Didymus Theodora for Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He will return to Göttingen in 2004 for the title role of G.F. Handel's Rinaldo. Among his pupils: Marcel Jorquera Vinyals (Counter-tenor). |
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Sources:
BIS Records (January 2001)
Caroline Philips Management Website (May 2001)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (April 2001) |
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Robin Blaze : Short Biography | Recordings of Vocal Works under his name | General Discussions |
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Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works |
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Conductor |
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Works |
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Harry Christophers |
Alto |
BWV 79, BWV 102, BWV 233, BWV 235 |
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Harry Christophers |
Alto |
Member of The Sixteen:
V-7 (2013): BWV 235, BWV 102, BWV 233
V-8 (2013): BWV 236, BWV 79, BWV 234 |
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John Eliot Gardiner |
Alto |
BWV 128 [1st], BWV 172
BWV 245 [DVD, 3rd] |
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Philippe Herreweghe |
Alto |
BWV 225-230 [2nd]
V-9 (2010, Video): BWV 244 [4th recording]
V-17 (2012): BWV 244 [5th recording] |
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Robert Hollingworth |
Alto |
Member of w/ I Fagiolini:
Aria from BWV 190 |
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Peter Kooy |
Alto |
BWV 225-230, BWV Anh 159 |
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Gustav Leonhardt |
Alto |
BWV 30a, BWV 207 |
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Paul McCreesh |
Alto |
BWV 243, BWV 249 |
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Purcell Quartet |
Alto |
BWV 234, BWV 235 |
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Graham Ross |
Alto |
C-1 (2017): BWV 80, BWV 79 |
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Shunske Sato |
Alto |
[AB-81] (2017, Video): BWV 81
[AB-83] (2017, Video], BWV 83 |
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Masaaki Suzuki |
Alto |
BWV 6, BWV 7, BWV 8, BWV 9, BWV 13, BWV 16, BWV 17, BWV 20, BWV 24, BWV 26, BWV 27, BWV 28, BWV 29, BWV 30 [2nd recording], BWV 33, BWV 34, BWV 35, BWV 36, BWV 37, BWV 39, BWV 40, BWV 41, BWV 42, BWV 43, BWV 45, BWV 48, BWV 53, BWV 60, BWV 62, BWV 66, BWV 67, BWV 69, BWV 70, BWV 72, BWV 74, BWV 76, BWV 79, BWV 85, BWV 86, BWV 87, BWV 88, BWV 89, BWV 90, BWV 91, BWV 92, BWV 94, BWV 97, BWV 98, BWV 101, BWV 102, BWV 103, BWV 104, BWV 105, BWV 108, BWV 109, BWV 110, BWV 111, BWV 112, BWV 113, BWV 116, BWV 117, BWV 120, BWV 121, BWV 123, BWV 124, BWV 125, BWV 126, BWV 128, BWV 129, BWV 130, BWV 133, BWV 134, BWV 137, BWV 139, BWV 144, BWV 146, BWV 147, BWV 148, BWV 149, BWV 151, BWV 153, BWV 154, BWV 156, BWV 158: Chorale, BWV 159, BWV 164, BWV 166, BWV 167, BWV 168, BWV 169, BWV 170, BWV 171, BWV 174, BWV 175, BWV 176, BWV 177, BWV 181, BWV 183, BWV 186, BWV 187, BWV 188, BWV 190, BWV 198, BWV 200, BWV 205, BWV 207, BWV 213, BWV 214
Secular Cantatas Vol. 9 (2016): BWV 201, BWV 207a
Secular Cantatas Vol. 10 (2017): BWV 30a
CV-1 (2011, Video): BWV 29 [1st recording], BWV 120 [2nd recording], BWV 30 [1st recording]
BWV 232, BWV 234, BWV 235, BWV 236, BWV 244, BWV 245 [DVD], BWV 1083
F. Durante-J.S. Bach: BWV Anh 26/BWV 242 |
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Masaaki Suzuki |
Alto |
Member of Bach Collegium Japan:
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 9: BWV 24, BWV 76, BWV 167
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 14: BWV 48, BWV 89, BWV 109, BWV 148
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 15: BWV 40, BWV 60, BWV 70, BWV 90
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 17: BWV 153, BWV 154, BWV 73, BWV 144, BWV 181
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 18: BWV 66, BWV 134, BWV 67
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 19: BWV 86, BWV 37, BWV 104, BWV 166
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 21: BWV 65, BWV 81, BWV 83, BWV 190
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 22: BWV 7, BWV 20, BWV 94
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 24: BWV 8, BWV 33, BWV 113
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 28: BWV 26, BWV 62, BWV 116, BWV 139
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 31: BWV 91, BWV 101, BWV 121, BWV 133
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 32: BWV 111, BWV 123, BWV 124, BWV 125
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 35: BWV 74, BWV 87, BWV 128, BWV 176
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 36: BWV 42, BWV 103, BWV 108, BWV 6
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 38 (2006): BWV 52, BWV 55
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 39: BWV 28, BWV 68, BWV 85, BWV 175, BWV 183
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 40: BWV 79, BWV 137, BWV 164, BWV 168
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 42: BWV 13, BWV 16, BWV 32, BWV 72
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 43: BWV 110, BWV 57, BWV 151
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 44: BWV 43, BWV 88, BWV 146
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 45: BWV 39, BWV 129, BWV 187
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 46: BWV 102, BWV 45, BWV 17, BWV 19
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 47: BWV 36, BWV 47, BWV 27
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 48: BWV 34, BWV 98, BWV 117, BWV 120
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 49: BWV 188, BWV 156, BWV 159, BWV 171
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 50 (2011): BWV 49, BWV 145, BWV 149, BWV 174
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 52: BWV 29, BWV 112, BWV 140
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 53: BWV 9, BWV 97, BWV 177
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 55: BWV 30, BWV 69, BWV 191
Secular Cantatas Vol. 4: BWV 205, BWV 207
Secular Cantatas Vol. 5: BWV 213, BWV 214
Secular Cantatas Vol. 6: BWV 198
Secular Cantatas Vol. 9 (2016): BWV 201, BWV 207a
Secular Cantatas Vol. 10 (2017): BWV 30a
Lutheran Masses Vol. 1 (2013/2014): BWV 235, BWV 236, BWV 240, BWV 241, F. Durante-J.S. Bach: BWV Anh 26, BWV 242, BWV 238, BWV 237
Lutheran Masses Vol. 2 (2014/2015): BWV 234, BWV 233, M.G. Peranda: Missa in A minor |
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David Temple |
Alto |
V-1 (2016): BWV 245 [sung in English] |
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Winfried Toll |
Alto |
[VV-5] (2012, Video): BWV 248/1+6 |
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Links to other Sites |
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Robin Blaze - Countertenor (Rayfield Artists)
Robin Blaze (The Trebles)
Robin Blaze (Hyperion)
Robin Blaze - A Countertenor Virtuoso (Music & Vision)
Sonnerie with Robin Blaze - Wigmore Hall May 19th 2000
Robon Blaze - Countertenor (AAM)
About Robin Blaze (John Pierce)
Robin Blaze (The Boy Choir & Soloist Directory) |
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