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The Australian baritone, David Greco, studied singing at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Australia, where he obtained his Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance in 2003. He first appeared as a soloist with Dame Emma Kirkby in her Australian concert tour 2006. He was soon invited as the soloist with many distinguished Australian and New Zealand ensembles, including the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and The Australian Haydn Ensemble & Auckland Choral.
David Greco has established himself as a fine interpreter of oratorio and opera throughout Australia and Europe. He has worked on the cutting edge of the early music movement in Europe, performing with ensembles such as the Freiburger Barockorchester, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (Director: Ton Koopman), Nederlandse Bachvereniging (Director: Jos van Veldhoven) and Luthers Bach Ensemble (Director: Tymen Jan Bronda). He has sung in some of the world’s finest concert halls, from the Theatre des Champs-Elyséto the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam,and appeared as a soloist at the world’s most exciting festivals, in productions such as Gluck’s Alceste in the Aix-en-Provence Festival and Purcell’s The Fairy Queen for Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
David Greco is equally at home on stage, and in 2010 he made his Italian debut at Teatro Comunale Modena in George Frideric Handel’s Agrippina in the role of Pallante. The following year he made his debut with Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, France, in Alceste, in the role of Oracle with the Freiburger Barockorchester, under Ivor Bolton. His engagements in opera have spread widely across Australia, from first appearing in Die Zauberflöte, as Papageno, to performing in La Rondine with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Gianluigi Gelmetti. David became a company member of Opera Australia in 2007-2008. He performs regularly with Australian Baroque opera company Pinchgut Opera, in productions such as Dardanus by Rameau, David et Jonothan by Charpentier and L’Orfeo by Monteverdi. David recently made his role debut with for the company as Orestes in Cavalli’s Giasone.
David Greco moved to the Netherlands in 2009 to continue studies at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague (Koninklijk Conservatorium), with bass Peter Kooy and counter-tenor Michael Chance. He obtained there his Bachelor of Early Music degree in 2011. In Holland he performed regularly with Ton Koopman's Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir. He made his debut at the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra msterdam in 2010, in a recital of Monteverdi's Madrigali Guerrieri et Amorosi with Dutch Ensemble Le Nuove Musiche.
David Greco was based in the UK for two years (2012-2014), during which time he was engaged as a bass in Westminster Abbey Choir. He appeared at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in The Fairy Queen by Purcell under Laurence Cummings. He was invited to tour the UK and France in Messiah with The Academy of Ancient Music, under Richard Egarr. In 2014 he was appointed to a position with the Sistine Chapel Choir in the Vatican.
2015 engagements include Aeneas in Purcell's Dido & Aeneas for Brisbane Baroque Festival, the Coffee Cantata (BWV 211) of J.S. Bach for the Canberra International Music Festival, and the role of Lopez in Gretry’s Lamant Jaloux for Pinchgut Opera in December. The 2016 season saw David Greco's debut as a principal artist with Opera Australia in The Love for Three Oranges and The Eighth Wonder. He performed the role of Wagner in Charles Gounod's Faust in a co-production with Lyric Opera Chicago and the Macau International Music Festival.
In 2017 David Greco was a soloist for the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s tour of G.F. Handel's Messiah and performed J.S. Bach's cantata Ich habe genug (BWV 82) in Helpmann Award-winning concerts with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, as well as featuring in performances of Messiah and J.S. Bach's St Matthew Passion (BWV 244) for Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. He also appeared as Seneca in Pinchgut Opera’s production of The Coronation of Poppea and in the title role in Monteverdi’s L'Orfeo with the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music under Erin Helyard. Engagements in 2018 include the role of Abner in G.F. Handel's Athalia for Pinchgut Opera, a program with the Australian Haydn Ensemble featuring the orchestrated songs of Schubert, and concerts with Latitude 37.
David Greco has an impressive catalogue of solo recordings spread across a variety of recording labels, including "Poems of Love and War", featuring arias by New Zealand composer Jack Body, on the Naxos Label, and a recently released Winterreise with Erin Helyard on period instruments on the ABC Classics label.
David Greco was Vocal Coach at Fine Arts and Music at Melbourne - VCA & Conservatorium. Currently, he is Vocal Coach/ Lecturer at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney. Among the singers who have studied with him and/or attended his master-classes: Gabriel Desiderio (Baritone), Thomas Hallworth (Tenor), Aidan O'Donnell (Bass-Baritone).*** |
