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The French baritone, Victor Sicard, studied at Conservatoire de région d'Angers (Class of 2007). He arrived in London in 2007 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD) to study with Professor David Pollard, his current teacher. In 2010 he obtained a First Class Honours Bachelor of Music, being awarded the Concert Recital Prize and a Masters with Distinction. He studied in the Opera Course in the GSMD (2010-2012) with full scholarship.
While finishing his studies, Victor Sicard was employed by the Glyndebourne Festival Opera for the summer festival 2012. He was a trainee at the National Opera Studio supported by the Royal Opera House in 2012-2013. He also took part in the international tour of the Jardin des Voix, accompanied by the orchestra of Les Arts Florissants under the direction of William Christie in 2013. His collaboration with this ensemble continued with an international tour with French Actor Denis Podalydes in 2016. He also works regularly as a soloist with Le Concert d'Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm, Le Concert Spirituel and Hervé Niquet, Ensemble Aedes and Mathieu Romano, Le Poème Harmonique and Vincent Dumestre, Dunedin Consort and John Butt, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie and Jérémie Rhorer, Ensemble Matheus and Jean-Christophe Spinosi and Vox Luminis and Lionel Meunier.
His operatic repertoire includes the roles of Adario in les Indes Galantes (Rameau) in Washington and New York, Tisiphone in Amour et Psyché (Mondonville) at the opera houses of Dijon, Lille, Luxembourg and Caen, Apollon in La descente d'Orphée aux enfers (Charpentier) and Pan in Amor vince ogni cosa (Charpentier) with Le Concert d'Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm for the opera houses of Lille and Dijon, Yamadori in Madama Butterfly (Puccini) at the opera houses of opera houses of Limoges and Rouen, Dr Falke in Die Fledermaus for the National Theatre in Linz (Austria), Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie, Clock and Cat in L'Enfant et les sortilèges for Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Enfant fantôme in Coraline (Turnage) in the opera house of Lille, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Benjamin Britten) at the Barbican Theatre, Povero in Lo Spedale for the Aldeburgh Festival ; extracts of Pélléas et Mélisande (Pélléas), Don Pasquale (Malatesta), Lucia di Lamermoor (Enrico), Elisir d'amore (Belcore), W.A. Mozart's Cosi fan tutte (Guglielmo), B. Britten's The Rape of Lucretia (Junius), W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Falstaff (Ford), Traviata (Germont).
Recently, Victor Sicard won the First male prize, the Young singer prize and the Best French interpret prize at the 24th international Competition in Marmande (France). He has also won the 1st prize at the Mozart Singing Competition 2011, the 1st prize at the 23rd International competition FLAME in Paris, the 1st prize at the 23rd International competition Paper de Musica in Barcelona with pianist Anna Cardona, and the 1st prize at the International Mirabent i Magrans Competition 2011, the 2nd prize at the Jackdaws Vocal Awards 2010 and the 2nd prize winner with Anna Cardona in the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform. This award includes a series of sponsored recitals across the UK next year. He was also finalist of the Guildhall Gold Medal in May 2011 in the Barbican Hall and of the Kathleen Ferrier Awards in April 2011 in the Wigmore Hall.
His baritone soloist Oratorio repertoire includes Requiem de Mozart at the Royal Albert Hall, Dixit Dominus by Handel and the Magnificat by Bach for an international tour with the orchestra of the Frankfurt and the le concert d'Astrée both conducted by d'Emmanuelle Haïm, St John's Passion as Jesus and as a baritone soloist with Aedes and les Surprises conducted by Mathieu Romano, Requiem by Fauré at Saint Martin in the Fields, La Petite Messe solennelle by Rossini at the opera houses of Caen and Massy, Cantatas 4, 18, 106, 150, 161 at Music et Mémoire Festival, Requiem by Duruflé at St Albans Cathedral, Carmina Burana by Orff and the Belshazzar’s feast by Walton for the Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra, Ein Deutsches Requiem by Brahms, Requiem by Fauré, Dixit Dominus by Vivaldi, Theresa Mass by Haydn and the Mass in E flat Major by Schubert for the Orchestra of the West of France, La Petite Messe solennelle by Rossini for the Conques Oratorio Festival, Magnificat in D (BWV 243) and St Matthew’s Passion (BWV 244) by J.S. Bach for the Southampton Choral Society.
Victor was awarded a scholarship from the Lionel Anthony charitable trust, an award from SAFRAN, an INDEPENDENT OPERA Vocal Scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2011 and an award from the TANA Charitable trust to study next year at the National Opera Studio. He is also very grateful for the support of the Guildhall School Trust, the Vandervell Foundation, the Music Students' Hostel Trust, Karl Grossfield and would like to thank Anna Cardona for her unimaginable help. He currently livers in Vincennes, France. |
