ANDREW KENNEDY Andrew Kennedy studied at King’s College, Cambridge, and the Royal College of Music in London. He was a member of the Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where he performed many solo principal rôles. In 2005 he won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Rosenblatt Recital Prize. He is a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award winner and won the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artists’ Award in 2006. He was also a member of BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme.
A busy international artist, he has worked with conductors that include Sir Mark Elder, Sir Colin Davis, Gianandrea Noseda, Sir Roger Norrington, Vladimir Jurowski and Ed Gardner. He gives numerous recitals in Europe and the United Kingdom and appears regularly with the pianists Julius Drake, Roger Vignoles, Iain Burnside and Malcolm Martineau. He made his La Scala début as Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress. Other operatic rôles include Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte and Tito in La clemenza di Tito.
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