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"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make." - Truman Capote

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 where he performed many solo principal roles. Andrew has won numerous prizes and awards including the 2005 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Rosenblatt Recital Prize. He is a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award winner and won the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artists’ Award in 2006. He was also a member of BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme. Operatic roles include Tamino The Magic Flute (English National Opera); Flute A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Opera Covent Garden); Jaquino Fidelio (Glyndebourne Festival) and Ferrando Così fan tutte (Glyndebourne Touring Opera); Nemorino L’elisir d’amore (Opera North) and Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Progress (La Scala). Concert engagements include Jaquino Fidelio, Francesco Benvenuto Cellini and Mozart Requiem for the LSO/Sir Colin Davis (all recorded for the LSO Live CD label) and Novice Billy Budd (LSO/Harding, recorded on EMI/Virgin Classics). Equally passionate about song repertoire, 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 (‘Strauss Songs’ with Roger Vignoles for Hyperion; ‘On Wenlock Edge’ with the Dante Quartet/Simon Crawford Philips for Signum Classics; ‘The Dark Pastoral’ with Julius Drake and Simon Russell Beale for Altara Classics and ‘The Curlew’ with Simon Lepper for Landor Records) and two shared recital discs (‘On Buying A Horse’ and a recording of Liszt songs both with Iain Burnside for Signum Classics). Andrew has recently released his first orchestral album of Gluck, Berlioz and Mozart arias for Signum Classics

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Apollo et Hyacinthus
The Mozartists
Ian Venables
At Midnight
Andrew Kennedy
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hector Berlioz, Christoph Willibald von Gluck
Kennedy sings arias by Mozart, Gluck, Berlioz
Andrew Kennedy
John Stainer
The Crucifixion
Andrew Kennedy / Neal Davies / Darius Battiwalla
Franz Liszt
Abroad
Rebecca Evans / Andrew Kennedy / Matthew Rose / Iain Burnside
Vaughan Williams, Ian Venables, Ivor Gurney
On Wenlock Edge
Andrew Kennedy
Judith Weir
On Buying a Horse
Susan Bickley / Andrew Kennedy / Ailish Tynan / Iain Burnside