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Ian Bostridge
Ian Bostridge's recital career includes the world's major concert halls and the Edinburgh, Munich, Vienna, Aldeburgh and Schubertiade festivals, including artistic residencies at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, his own Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall and this series at London's Barbican.
In opera he has sung Tamino, Jupiter (Semele) and Aschenbach (Death in Venice) at English National Oepra; Quint (the Thurn of the Screw), Vasek (The Bartered Bride), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) and Caliban (the Tempest) for the Royal Opera, Don Ottavio in Vienna and Nerone (L'Incoronazione di Poppea), Thom Rakewell (The Rake's Progress) and Male Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia) in Munich.
His recordings include Schubert's 'Di schone mullerin' with Graham Johnson (Grammophone Award 1996); Tom Rakewell with Eliot Gardner (Grammy Award 1999); Belmonte with Christie; Idomeneo with Mackerras; Schubert Lieder, Schmann Lieder (Grammophone Award 1998); English song and Henze Lieder with Julius Drake, Janacek with Thomas Ades, Schubert with Leif Ove Andsnes, Noel Coward with Jeffrey Tate, Britten Orchestral cycles with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Rattle, Wolf with Antonio Pappano, Bach Cantatas, Britten Canticles, The Turn of the Screw (Grammophone Award 2003) and Handel arias with Harry Bicket.
His concert engagements include the Berliner Philharmoniker, Vienna Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, New York Philharmonic, and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras under Rattle, Colin Davis, Ozawa, Muti, Rostropovich, Barenboim, Harding, Runnicles and Pappano.
In 2001 he was elected an honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and in 2003 he was made an Honorary Doctor of Music by the University of St Andrew's. He was created a CBE in the 2004 New Year's Honours. He is married to the author and literary critic Lucasta Miller. They live in London with their two children.
For biographies of other artists taking part in the festival please see individual concert pages.
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