Stephen Gadd (3)

For the English vocalist with 1970's London (UK) Rock Band Stray, use Stephen Gadd. For the American session drummer, use Steve Gadd. English baritone Stephen Gadd won the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship and was a finalist in the inaugural Plácido Domingo Operalia Competition. A boy chorister at Coventry Cathedral, he was a choral scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge, and studied singing at the Royal Northern College of Music with Patrick McGuigan. His UK operatic engagements have included performances for Buxton Festival Opera, Chelsea Opera Group, English National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne On Tour, Grange Park Opera, Opera Holland Park, Opera North, the Royal Opera, London, Scottish Opera and Welsh National Opera, in repertoire including Filippo Beatrice di Tenda, Escamillo Carmen, Mr Redburn Billy Budd, Balstrode Peter Grimes, Gellner La Wally, Alphonse La Favorite, Enrico Lucia di Lammermoor, De Siriex Fedora, Father Hänsel und Gretel, Tonio Pagliacci, Priest Grigoris The Greek Passion, David L’Amico Fritz, Alfio Cavalleria Rusticana, Speaker Die Zauberflöte, Jack Rance La Fanciulla del West, Sharpless Madama Butterfly, Michele Il tabarro, Ping Turandot, Guglielmo Le Villi, The Music Master Ariadne auf Naxos, Storch Intermezzo, Yeletsky The Queen of Spades, Renato Un ballo in maschera, the title roles in Macbeth and Rigoletto, Giorgio Germont La traviata, Conte di Luna Il trovatore, Kurwenal and Melot Tristan und Isolde and Lysiart Euryanthe. He sang Mr Redburn Billy Budd for Glyndebourne Festival Opera at the Brooklyn Academy of Arts and Music, and his international engagements have further included Riccardo I Puritani, Enrico Lucia di Lammermoor and Yeletsky The Queen of Spades for the Angers-Nantes Opéra; Ferryman Curlew River for Opéra de Rouen; Balstrode Peter Grimes for the Opéra national de Montpellier; Valentin Faust for the Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg; Chief of Military Police Cadillac for the Opéra national de Paris; Tonio Pagliacci and Marcello La bohème for Finnish National Opera, the title role in Don Giovanni for Opéra de Metz and Opéra de Rennes; Count Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro for the Salzburg Festival tour to Japan; Rangoni Boris Godunov for the New Israeli Opera; Sonora La Fanciulla del West for the Netherlands Opera; Scarpia Tosca with the Xi’an Symphony in China; Paolo Die Gezeichneten at the Salzburg Festival; Giorgio Germont La traviata for Den Norske Opera; and Melot Tristan und Isolde at the Baden Baden Festival and for Dallas Opera. Concert engagements have included performances with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Manchester Camerata, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Symphony Orchestra, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and the Ulster Orchestra under conductors including Stephen Barlow, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Brad Cohen, Ben Gernon, Daniel Harding, Vladimir Jurowski, Hannu Lintu, Lorin Maazel, Gianluca Marcianò, Andris Nelsons, Jonathan Nott, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jan Schultsz, Stuart Stratford, Walter Weller, John Wilson and David Zinman. His recordings and broadcasts include Beethoven Der glorreiche Augenblick with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Hilary Davan Wetton (Naxos), Richard Blackford Not In Our Time and Pietà with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Gavin Carr (Nimbus), Britten War Requiem with the Southern Sinfonia conducted by Simon Over (Classic FM), Mahler Symphony No. 8 with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel (Signum), Mahler Das Lied von der Erde with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Nott (Tudor SACD), Mozart Coronation Mass and Vesperae solemnes de confessore and Dioclesian with The English Concert conducted by Trevor Pinnock (DGG), Ivanhoe and The Beauty Stone with BBC NOW conducted by David Lloyd-Jones and Rory Macdonald respectively (Chandos), Vaughan Williams Hodie and Fantasia on Christmas Carols with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Hilary Davan Wetton (Naxos) and Euryanthe from the Beethoven Easter Festival, Warsaw, with the Orchestra of Polish Radio conducted by Łukasz Borowicz, which was nominated for a 2012 International Classical Music Award in the Opera Category (PRCD). He also appeared in La traviata: Love, Death and Divas (BBC 2 TV) whilst appearances on DVD include a Cardillac (Bel Air Classiques); La Fanciulla del West (Opus Arte), Die Gezeichneten (Euro Arts) and Tristan und Isolde (Opus Arte). Most recently released is Richard Blackford’s Vision of a Garden with The Bach Choir and the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by David Hill on Lyrita CD, which was Gramophone Editor’s Choice for September 2022. Recent and current engagements include Guglielmo Le Villi for Opera Holland Park, Giorgio Germont La traviata for Opera North, Blackford Pietà with Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Verdi Requiem with the New London Orchestra.