Michael George

Michael George can be an established Uk bass-baritone. He started as a young man vocalist in the chorus of King’s University, Cambridge, carried out by Sir David Willcocks. His advanced schooling was in the Royal University of Music in London, where he received several main prizes. His profession offers included performances with all the current leading orchestras in Britain, and considerable performances with abroad orchestras and in main festivals all over the world. He spent some time working with Sir Neville Marriner, John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Charles Mackerras, Trevor Pinnock, Richard Hickox, Vernon Handley, Kurt Sanderling, Jean-Claude Malgoire, David Zinman, Ricardo Muti, and Kent Nagano. He regularly records, and offers appeared on several main brands. For Decca he made an appearance in Haydn’s Creation. For BMG Conifer, he documented Finzi’s Why don’t we Garlands Bring. His performing in Elgar’s The Imagine Gerontius is definitely within the EMI label. For Chandos, he offers performed in Stainer’s The Crucifixion and Handel’s Dafne, and he is at the original devices recordings of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Ninth Symphony within the Nimbus label. A significant part of his discography is definitely within the Hyperion label, including a overall performance of Handel’s Messiah using the Sixteen. On that label he most regularly sings solo using the King’s Consort; such produces include a main project of the entire tunes, odes, and chapel anthems of Henry Purcell and a lot of Handel operas and oratorios, including Alexander Balus, Periodic Oratorio, Ottone, Deborah, Acis and Galatea, Judas Maccabaeus, and Joshua. George sings on six quantities of Hyperion’s great group of total Schubert track recordings with Graham Johnson, and in Emmanuel Chabrier’s Briséis definitely and Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Lamentations. He’s wedded to soprano Julie Kennard.