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The Irish tenor, Peter Harris, studied Music at the University of Oxford where he held a choral scholarship at The Queen's College. Following university Peter Harris was awarded a place on the Monteverdi Choir Apprenticeship Scheme. After completing an MA in vocal performance at the Royal Academy of Music, he is on the Royal Academy Opera School and is supported by Help Musicians UK, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Leverhulme Trust and Josephine Baker Trust.
Peter Harris won the 2017 Oxford Lieder Young Artist Programme final with his duo partner, Hamish Brown. He also won Northern Ireland Opera Festival of Voice 2017. He is a Britten Pears Young Artist and a member of the Royal Academy of Music Song Circle.
Recent solo engagements with the Monteverdi Choir include W.A. Mozart's Requiem at the Salzburg Festpielhaus. Other recent solo highlights include J.S. Bach's St Matthew Passion (BWV 244) with Dunedin Consort (Director: John Butt), Septimius in George Frideric Handel's Theodora with Irish Baroque Orchestra/Mark Chambers, Ferrando (cover) in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte with Northern Ireland Opera and solo recitals at St John Smith Square and the Oxford Lieder Festival. |
