BUNDY, MICHAEL Michael R. Bundy, a music graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, has performed widely in diverse genres and has a continuing association with the BBC Singers. He has appeared as soloist with groups such as The Sixteen, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and with many distinguished conductors, including Trevor Pinnock and Sir John Eliot Gardiner. His operatic repertoire exceeds forty rôles and he has sung at English National Opera, Kent Opera, Scottish Opera, the Royal Opera, Covent Garden and Theater Basel. His work has taken him to the Orient and the Americas, as well as the principal concert-halls and theatres of Europe.
Specialising in French mélodie, in addition to these recordings, lectures and articles, he has written a book on the songs of Widor, Vierne and Tournemire – Prophets without Honour. An exponent of contemporary music, he has given the premières of works by John Hardy, Eddie McGuire, Cecilia Macdowall and Noam Sheriff, and on a lighter note, for BBC Radio 2, has broadcast the rôles of Olin Britt (Music Man) and Mr Lindquist (A Little Night Music).
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