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Alexander trained as a chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral, London under John Scott and later at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester under Colin Iveson and Anthony Roden. He studied further at the Ferrandou Summer School in France with David Wilson Johnson, at the Georg Solti Accademia di Bel Canto in Italy with Kiri Te Kanawa, Frederica von Stade and Corradina Caporello and studied privately in Switzerland with Nicolai Gedda and in Italy with Susanna Rigacci. He currently studies in Sweden with dramatic tenor Sten Sjöstedt. He has also undertaken many masterclasses from emi- nent artists including Anne Howells, Geoffrey Shovelton, Nigel Douglas, Martin Isepp, Rafael Rojas, Joseph Ward, Sir Thomas Allen, David Lloyd-Jones, Bruno Rigacci, Robin Stapleton and Francesca Patané and received specialist coaching from artists such as Jean Mallandaine, Jim Holmes, Paul Grif- fiths, Chris Squires, Adele Leigh, John Cameron and Dale Fundling. Alexander has performed over 50 operatic / operetta roles, and is also in demand on the concert platform having performed the ma- jority of the oratorio repertoire and given recitals and galas in festivals and tours covering the length and breadth of the UK. Internationally he has been heard as far as the Manaus Opera House in Brazil and in Tokyo, Japan. Amongst others, he has performed under the batons of Sir George Solti, Kent Negano, Simon Halsey, Sir Edward Downes, Sir David Wilcocks, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Edward Gardner, Noel Davis, Tobias Ringborg and Daniel Harding. He is now considered to be one of the most versatile tenors to emerge from the UK in recent years.
Although primarily a lyrico-spinto tenor, Alexander has a broad operatic repertoire and experience from buffo roles to leading men. Over the course of his career he has received consistent critical acclaim from the broadsheets and magazines: the press hailed his pro- fessional debut in 2003 as Peter Quint in Britten’s Turn of the Screw as a “triumph”. Recent career highlights include his Swiss debut in Die Zauberflöte under Daniel Harding at the Lucerne Festival; his Finnish debut as Don Ramiro under the baton of Pier Giorgio Morandi with the National Finnish Opera in a revival of the 1988 Michael Hampe production of La Cenerentola; his Swedish debut receiving acclaim for his interpretation of Gabriele in Foroni’s revived bel canto opera Cristina Regina di Svezia for Vadstena Akade- mien under Tobias Ringborg; Don Ramiro, La Cenerentola for Malmö Opera under Brad Cohen; cover for Metropolitan tenor Stuart Neill as Don José in Bizet’s Carmen under Marcello Mottadelli at Opera På Skäret. His Count Danilo in Lehar’s The Merry Widow for Scottish Opera was described as “the Danilo of one’s dreams” (Opera Magazine). Other highlights include the roles of Le Nos, Pytor and Yarishkin in Le Nos (Shostakovich) at Royal Opera House 2, Trio, Trouble In Tahiti (Bernstein) and Charlie, Mahagonny Songspeil (Weill) all under the directorship of the Royal Opera’s associate director, John Fulljames for The Opera Group; Pierrot, Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Ullmann) under Edward Gardner and the Hallé Orchestra which he reprised for Upfront Opera; and Lupo with Hans Werner Henze as conductor on his children’s opera Pollicino. Other roles include Bajazet, Tamerlano; Hippolyte, Hippolyte et Aricie (Lully) and Telemachus Il Ritorno d’UIisse in Patria (Monteverdi) for Yorke Trust Opera; Count Almaviva, Il Barbiere di Sivi- glia for Göteborgs Operan; Pedrillo, Il Seraglio for Scottish Opera; Count von Zedlau, Wiener Blut and Eisenstein, Die Fledermaus for Clonter Opera; Chinese Man, The Fairy Queen for Armonico Consort; Dottore, The Jewel Box (Mozart) for Bampton Classical Opera; Fenton, Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor (Nicolai) for Cumbria Opera; Mercury, Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach) for British Youth Opera; Borsa Rigoletto (Verdi) for Mid Wales Opera; Remendado, Carmen (Bizet) for Opera På Skäret and Stowe Op- era, Ralph Rackstraw HMS Pinafore (Sullivan) for Phoenix Opera; Colonel Fairfax Yeomen of the Guard (Sullivan) for West Cum- berland Opera; Rapunzel’s Prince Into The Woods (Sondheim), Dr Caius Falstaff (Verdi), Chekalinsky Pique Dame (Tchaikovsky), Monsieur Taupe Capriccio (Strauss), Oronte Alcina (Handel), Egisto L’Egisto all for the RNCM.
Due to his training, one of Alexander’s strengths is repertoire in the English language. Alexander has created 10 roles in world premiere British operas with leading British composers and librettists. In world premieres for Scottish Opera’s innovative Five:15: Gesualdo collaborating with crime novelist Ian Rankin and composer Craig Armstrong; Dream Angus (Stephen Deazley) with poet and novelist Alexander McCall Smith; Steve in Lyell Creswell’s and Ron Butlin’s Money Man; Ghost in Paul Mealor and Peter Stoll- ery’s 74 Degrees North; Vitya, The Letter (Bernard Maclaverty + V Khodosh). For The Opera Group, Faceless Suit, Walking Not Driving (Tim Coker); Dean, Anything Money Can Buy (Laura Bowler); Wilson Out of the Ordinary (David Bruce); For Yorke Trust Opera: Lord Nelson, The Sailor’s Tale (Rupert Bawden) which was recorded on the NMC Record Label. Other roles in English in- clude Ben The Telephone and La Théière L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Ravel.
In competition, Alexander is a multi-award winner, most recently becoming the male winner of the BBC Kiri Prize 2010, recorded for the BBC with the BBC Concert Orchestra on BBC Radio 2 and televised for BBC’s Last Night of the Proms. Other competition wins include the Anne Ziegler Competition and 2nd prize in the Frederic Cox Award.
On the oratorio and concert platforms, recent highlights include the tenor cantata Rinaldo (Brahms) with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra in Sweden; appearing with soprano Louise Sjöstedt at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in Salzburg and at Berwaldhallen, Stockholm; and at the Hackney Empire, London in A Tribute to Mario Lanza recorded live for BBC Radio 2. Alexander’s performed repertoire covers the majority of the major works and his performances have been heard in many of the major venues and cathedrals in the UK. Just a few of the conductors and orchestras he has worked under include Sir David Willcocks (Royal Festival Hall, Lon- don Symphony Orchestra - Fauré); Simon Halsey and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at the Birmingham Symphony Hall (Beethoven 9th Symphony, Messiah); Kent Negano (L’Enfant du Christ: Bridgewater Hall); Wyn Davies and the Northern Sinfo- nia (Viennese Operetta at The Sage, Gateshead); David Lloyd-Jones (Rossini Petite Messe Solenelle / Mozart Mass in Cmin); BBC Concert Orchestra (Roderick Dunk / Martyn Yates); Edward Gardner and the Hallé Orchestra (Der Kaiser von Atlantis - Imperial War Museum North); St John Smith’s Square (The Jewel Box, Mozart). Other conductors and venues include Leo Hussain, Mark Shana- han, Stephen Barlow (Verdi), Manchester Camerata (Messiah - Royal Hall, Harrogate) and Sir Edward Downes (Otello). World pre- mieres include A Song for St Stephen (John Joubert) with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Simon Halsey.
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Other career highlights include performing a private performance for President Bush Snr at the White House, Washington; as a soloist with José Carreras under Sir Georg Solti at the Royal Festival Hall, London; the Queen Mother’s 90th Birthday at Horseguards Pa- rade, London; Jim Henson’s Memorial Service; and as a soloist with Harry Secombe on “Highway” (ITV).
Recording credits include the world premiere of Bawden’s The Sailor’s Tale on the NMC label in which he created the role of Lord Nelson; a world premiere for Independent Ballet Wales of Turner’s Bride of Flowers; the soundtrack of James Horner, Stephen Spiel- berg and George Lucas’s animated movie The Land Before Time at Abbey Road Studios, London and the inaugural UK Häagen-Daas advert also at Abbey Road Studios, London. Alexander is also featured on multiple Hyperion recordings as a chorister.
On the commercial platform, Alexander has toured the UK and Ireland’s largest venues, performing to capacity crowds of over 60,000 in one week and over 250,000 in one month in venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Manchester Evening News Arena and the O2 Millennium Dome, London, with artists such as Beardyman, Alexandra Burke, Lee Ryan, Mystique and Beverley Knight. Alexander has also been seen in straight acting roles in many UK television series including Clocking Off, Brookside, Coronation Street and Hollyoaks.

For more information please visit www.alexandergrove.me.

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If he wanted to, Jonas Kaufmann could easily fill his calendar with Verdi and Wagner, Puccini and Massenet, but, however much he loves opera, he cannot live without lieder. For the German tenor, interpreting the classical lieder repertory is “the haute école of singing”. It demands far more detailed work than any other vocal discipline, more colour, more nuances, a greater range of dynamics and a more subtle approach to the music and words.

And if there is an acid test for any lieder singer, it is undoubtedly Schubert’s Winterreise, a cycle of twenty-four settings of poems by Wilhelm Müller that is generally regarded as the pinnacle of lieder singing, a sequence of songs as thrilling for listeners as it is for the performer.

“Against the background of all the horror stories that bombard us today, we are undoubtedly rather more hardened than Schubert’s contemporaries, and yet even today’s listeners can still find this cycle affecting,” Kaufmann describes his experience of the work. “Even as interpreters we always find ourselves sucked into the emotional undertow of these songs, although we know perfectly well what to expect. I think that Winterreise has the same sort of cathartic effect as a Greek drama: the emotional experience purges the soul. On me, the work has an almost meditative effect because Schubert expressed these emotional depths with clarity and simplicity that I ultimately find consoling and that allows me to regain my own inner balance.”

After working together closely for many years and giving a number of recitals of Schubert’s great song cycles, Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch have now made their first recording of Winterreise. The recording was made in October last year in the August Everding Hall in Grünwald in Munich and documents the current state of a very special partnership that began many years ago at the Munich Academy of Music and Theatre. Over the years the initial teacher-pupil relationship has been transformed into a wonderful example of artistic communication that has found expression not only in the recording studio but also at countless song recitals, most notably at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 30 October 2011, the first solo recital heard at the Met since Luciano Pavarotti’s recital in 1994. The performance was greeted with the sort of acclaim that is normally reserved for a major operatic concert.


After innumerable international successes in Italian, German and French operas, Jonas Kaufmann is now universally acclaimed as the “King of Tenors”. He sings at all the major international opera houses from the Met and La Scala to the Vienna State Opera, the Paris Opéra and London’s Royal Opera House. He also appears annually at the Salzburg Festival and reaches an audience of millions through his opera broadcasts in the cinema and on television. He is also in international demand as a concert artist and lieder recitalist. His regular accompanist is Helmut Deutsch, with whom he has worked ever since he was a student in Munich. In 2011 he won the Opera News Award in New York and was appointed a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. Specialist journals such as Opernwelt, Diapason and Musical America as well as the ECHO Klassik jury have named him Singer of the Year, a title additionally bestowed on him at the first International Opera Awards in London in April 2013, when he also received the Readers’ Award.


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