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Michael Craddock is a London-based freelance singer, who started his musical education with the choir of Trinity College Cambridge, with whom he sang for four years. Whilst studying Mathematics, he found himself in many university productions, including Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona (Uberto), Milhaud Le Pauvre Matelot (L’Ami) and Bernstein Trouble in Tahiti (Sam), and was invited back to the University in 2014 to sing the title role in Don Giovanni.
His student days now behind him, Michael appears regularly as a soloist, and with choirs such as Polyphony and the Choir of the Enlightenment, and is currently learning with Gary Coward. He is the baritone for the Renaissance consort group The Gesualdo Six, who were St John’s Smith Square young artists in 2015-16, and have a busy concert schedule in the UK and further afield.
In addition to performing with the Gesualdo Six, Michael is a founder member of the consort group Amici Voices, with whom he regularly performs the works of JS Bach one-to-a-part. Amici Voices have also recently recorded a disc commemorating the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, on which he is one of the four singers featured, and the group have this spring given a concert of
Bach’s motets in Poprad, Slovakia.
Recent operatic performances include Walton’s The Bear (Smirnov) for Opera Minima and Opera Anywhere, Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom) in Aldeburgh, sharing the role with Matthew Rose, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale (Dr. Malatesta) for Opera Minima, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (Yamidori) for Opera A La Carte and Verdi’s La Traviata (Marchese) for Regent’s Opera at the Bermuda Festival. He recently sang the dual roles of Alfio/Tonio in Hampstead Garden Opera’s Spring 2016 performances of Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci, and gave the role of Dandini in La Cenerentola for the Bedford Park Festival.
Michael regularly sings with the choir of the London Oratory and in between his vocal engagements he works for a very accommodating barristers’ chambers as an accountant. In his spare time he enjoys moving pictures, hopped beverages and cricket.
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