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Don Giovanni

Andrew Kennedy

Andrew Kennedy studied at King's College, Cambridge and the Royal College of Music in London. He was a member of the Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Andrew has won numerous prizes and awards including the 2005 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Rosenblatt Recital Prize.

Operatic roles include Tamino The Magic Flute (ENO); Flute A Midsummer Night's Dream (ROH); Jaquino Fidelio (Glyndebourne Festival); Ferrando Così fan tutte (Glyndebourne Touring Opera); Nemorino L'elisir d'amore (Opera North); Tom Rakewell The Rake's Progress (La Monnaie and Opéra de Lyon); Vere Billy Budd (Houston Grand Opera), Tito La Clemenza di Tito (Opéra de Lyon) and his La Scala debut of Tom Rakewell.

Concert engagements include Jaquino Fidelio, Francesco Benvenuto Cellini and Mozart Requiem (LSO); Novice Billy Budd (LSO); Tom Rakewell The Rake's Progress (Stresa Festival), Orfeo in Haydn Orfeo e Euridice (Boston Handel and Haydn Society); Tobia Il Ritorna di Tobia (OAE); Mozart Requiem and Young Man in Korngold's Das Wunder der Heliane (LPO); Finzi Intimations of Immortality (BBCSO); Mozart Mass in C Minor (Hallé Orchestra); St. Matthew Passion (Netherlands Philharmonic) and Elgar Spirit of England at the 2007 Last Night of the BBC Proms.

Performances of Britten include Nocturne (BBC NOW), Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (CBSO, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC NOW and at the BBC Proms with the Nash Ensemble) and Les Illuminations (Edinburgh International Festival/Scottish Ensemble and with the Orchestre de Picardie).

Andrew gives numerous recitals in Europe and the UK and appears regularly with the pianists Julius Drake, Roger Vignoles Iain Burnside and Malcolm Martineau.

Andrew's fast growing discography includes four solo albums and two shared recital discs. Andrew will record his first orchestral album of Gluck, Berlioz and Mozart arias later on this year.

Future engagements include Shepherd Tristan und Isolde Glyndebourne Festival Opera, BBC Philharmonic and Gianandrea Noseda, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa Pekka Salonen, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Daniele Gatti, and Wigmore Hall recitals with Malcolm Martineau and Roger Vignoles. Andrew will also sing major roles in Houston Grand Opera, WNO, Opéra National de Lyon and Grange Park Opera.