British bass-baritone Neal Davies studied at King’s College, London and the Royal Academy of Music, and won the Lieder Prize at the 1991 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. Highlight this season include concerts of Saul with Jonathan Cohen and the Handel & Haydn Society. Notable concerts last season included Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ at the Festival Berlioz La Côte Saint André with Paul McCreesh and the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic, Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D minor with Bernard Labadie and the Kansas City Symphony, Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius with Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and joined Jonathan Cohen and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra for Bach’s St Matthew Passion. Neal also sang Dr Bartolo in the English National Opera’s production of The Marriage of Figaro.
His wide discography includes the highly acclaimed Handel’s Serse with The English Concert and Harry Bicket, Acis and Galatea under Christian Curnyn (BBC Music Magazine Award, 2019) Messiah, Theodora, Saul and Creation (Gramophone Award, 2008) under McCreesh, and Billy Budd with Daniel Harding (Grammy Award, 2010).
