EAMONN DOUGAN

Eamonn Dougan read Music at New College, Oxford, where he was a choral scholar, before studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. As a consort and ensemble singer, he has appeared on disc and on concert platforms throughout the world with many of the leading British ensembles (The Sixteen, I Fagiolini, Gabrieli Consort, Ex Cathedra, The Cardinall’s Musick and The Monteverdi Choir). As a soloist he has sung with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Hanover Band, the Parley of Instruments and the Academy of Ancient Music. He has an established reputation on the operatic stage where his many rôles include Papageno (Magic Flute), Masetto (Don Giovanni), Marullo (Rigoletto) and Mr. Gedge (Albert Herring) at Longborough; Jupiter (Peleus & Thetis), Lion (Pyramus & Thisbe) and Gozanes (Teraminta) for Opera Restor’d. He has performed with Graham Johnson’s Young Songmakers Almanac, and has given numerous solo recitals; of special interest is his reading of Schubert’s Die Winterreise with fortepianist Gary Cooper.

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