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Born in Northern Ireland, Brian McAlea graduated from Oxford University in 2015 where he read Music and sang with the Choir of New College under both Professor Edward Higginbottom and Professor Robert Quinney. He is currently studying for a postgraduate degree in Vocal Studies with Robert Dean at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama for which he is kindly supported by The Peter Nutting Charitable Trust, The George Heim Memorial Trust, The John S Cohen Foundation, The Michael James Music Trust and The John Wates Charitable Trust.
Solo highlights include Handel’s Israel in Egypt at this year’s Oxford Early Music Festival alongside Emma Kirkby and Robin Blaze; Handel’s Messiah with the Instruments of Time and Truth in the Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona, conducted by Edward Higginbottom; the same work with Bristol Choral Society alongside Mark Padmore, and MacMillan’s Seven Last Words from the Cross with the Britten Sinfonia, conducted by Eamonn Dougan in the Barbican.
Opera highlights include Aeneas in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with Sestina; Dr. P in Nyman’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat with New Chamber Opera, and chorus in both Verdi’s Rigoletto and Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love for Nevill Holt Opera earlier this year.
Future highlights include a selection of Brahms Duets for Suzi Digby, Haydn’s The Creation with Oxford Orpheus, a selection of concerts as a member of the Choir of the Age of Enlightenment and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with New College Choir. Brian will also be travelling to Spain, just before Christmas, to sing Handel’s Messiah as one of the Gabrieli Consort.
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