James Oldfield (bass-baritone)

Born in Ipswich, James was a Chorister at Leicester Cathedral. He was then a Choral Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read Geography, and a Lay Clerk at St John’s College, Cambridge. James then held a variety of scholarships at the Royal College of Music and the RCM International Opera School, studying with Ashley Stafford and Graeme Broadbent.

Highlights of James’ concert appearances include Mendelssohn Elijah with the London Symphony Orchestra and Kurt Masur, Orff Carmina Burana with the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra and Gerhard Markson, Rossini Stabat Mater with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in Dublin, Handel Samson with the Irish Baroque Orchestra, Haydn Nelson Mass with the Manchester Camerata and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Purcell The Fairy-Queen in the Wigmore Hall, Handel Messiah with the Huddersfield Choral Society (recorded live), and Mozart Mass in c minor in Gdansk for Polish radio. 

His operatic engagements include Achilla in Handel Giulio Cesare for Opera North, Ludd in Ludd and Isis for Royal Opera House, Figaro in Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro for Garsington Opera, and Nick Shadow in Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress for Gothenburg Opera. He was a recipient of the Leonard Ingrams Award from Garsington Opera.

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