Person Open DS/UK/11031 Pearce; Michael (fl 1980s-2010s); English bass-baritone Pearce Michael fl 1980s-2010s English bass-baritone Male

Michael Pearce, bass-baritone, was a choral scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge; he subsequently joined Westminster Abbey Choir, whilst studying singing technique with Otakar Kraus. His concert and opera carer has now encompassed travels to China, Canada, Brazil, Israel and the Philippines. He was the winner of the first English Song Award at the Brighton Festival, rewarded with a critically acclaimed debut recital at the Wigmore Hall. He has given solo performances at many of the major festival venues throughout Europe, including Bruges, Maastricht, Turin, Edinburgh, Windsor, Lille and Brighton. His frequent appearances at the main London concert venues include Handel’s Messiah and Haydn’s Creation at the Barbican, Verdi’s Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall, Brahms’ Requiem and Mahler’s 8th Symphony at the Royal Festival Hall,, and numerous concerts at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Michael’s recordings include Handel’s Coronation Anthems (with Westminster Abbey Choir under Simon Preston) and Bach’s B minor Mass from the Edinburgh Festival. He has recorded the part of Bam in Hollinger’s short opera What Where. He has given numerous radio broadcasts and recitals, both on the BBC and abroad. At the Royal Opera House he has covered roles in Gawain, Tales of Hoffman, and Die Frau ohne Schatten and has given solo performances in Thérèse, Capriccio, Die Meistersinger, and Salome. He has worked with Scottish Opera in Fidelio (Rocco) and he was Dr P in The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat (Music Theatre Wales), Claudius in Handel’s Agrippina with Midsummer Opera, the Herald in Britten’s The Burning Fiery Furnace, and Balstrode in Peter Grimes with Kent Opera, Tonio in I Pagliacci with Pimlico Opera and Lysiart in Weber’s Euryanthe with New Sussex Opera. Recently he sang Seneca in L’Incoronazione di Poppea in Cambridge and currently performs Germont in La Traviata with Opera Brava. Michael’s recent concert performances last year included Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius in Southend, Orff’s Carmina Burana in Bristol, Duruflé’s Requiem in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Verdi’s Requiem in Nottingham and Philip Glass’s Satyagraha at the Royal Festival Hall. Plans for 1998 include a visit to Norway for Beethoven’s Mass in C. He will perform Mendelssohn’s Elijah in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Mozart’s Requiem in the Barbican and give performances of Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, Haydn’s Creation and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia around the country. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHSkeyte 1/10/2014 Rachael.Fragola 3/1/2022 5c712d54-aced-4f39-a09a-f9fdd92996e2