PETER HARVEY - baritone


"Peter Harvey’s is one of those voices which makes you imagine that if there were to be a voice of God, this is what it would sound like: his mellow, consoling tone, his superb phrasing and his fluency with taxing melodic lines are surely what Bach would have wanted" *

Peter Harvey is an international baritone soloist who has become one of the UK's best known singers of baroque music, and the oratorio repertoire generally. He is in demand for concert appearances all over Europe and North America and has sung with most of the leading ensembles in the field, regularly appearing with The Gabrieli Consort, The Monteverdi Choir, The King's Consort, The Purcell Quartet, The Netherlands Bach Society and Le Concert Spirituel amongst many others. He has appeared many times at the Wigmore Hall in London, most often in the music of Purcell and Bach, composers with whose music he has become especially associated, and he is also a sought-after exponent of music from the French Baroque. He is not exclusively an "Early Music" singer, however, as he sings a vast range of oratorio and other concert music from the time of Monteverdi to the present day, and in the field of song, from Lute Songs to Lieder, and is at home singing the great works of Bach in widely differing performance styles, from one-voice-per-part on the one hand, to singing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on the other. Peter Harvey On this site you will find:
* MusicWeb review: J.S. Bach, Weimar Cantatas: The Purcell Quartet: Emma Kirkby (soprano) Michael Chance (countertenor) Peter Harvey (bass) Wigmore Hall, London, 20 .5 2007.