Biography - Andrew Mayor (Baritone)
Andrew Mayor was born in Manchester, he first qualified as a solicitor and then won a postgraduate scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music to study singing. During his studies he sang Borilée in Rameau’s Les Borèades, conducted by Roger Norrington. At the 2002 Osterfestpiele in Salzburg Andrew was a soloist in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia at the Grossesfestspielhaus with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado.
Other rôles include Silvio (I Pagliacci) for Castleward Opera, The Vicar (Albert Herring), Masetto (Don Giovanni) and Ford (Falstaff), for English Touring Opera, the Count (Le Nozze di Figaro), Rigoletto, Eugene Onegin and Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera all at the Holland Park Festival.
Internationally, Andrew took part in a nationwide tour of the USA performing Danilo (Die lustige Witwe) for Columbia Artists. Other recent international engagements have occured in Kuala Lumpur (Germont, La Traviata), Penang (Escamillo, Carmen), concerts in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, a tour throughout Europe singing the title rôle in Rigoletto for Compagnia d’ Opera Italiana di Milano and a tour throughout the UK singing the Count in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro.
Other rôles include Silvio (I Pagliacci) for Castleward Opera, The Vicar (Albert Herring), Masetto (Don Giovanni) and Ford (Falstaff), for English Touring Opera, the Count (Le Nozze di Figaro), Rigoletto, Eugene Onegin and Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera all at the Holland Park Festival.
Internationally, Andrew took part in a nationwide tour of the USA performing Danilo (Die lustige Witwe) for Columbia Artists. Other recent international engagements have occured in Kuala Lumpur (Germont, La Traviata), Penang (Escamillo, Carmen), concerts in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, a tour throughout Europe singing the title rôle in Rigoletto for Compagnia d’ Opera Italiana di Milano and a tour throughout the UK singing the Count in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro.