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The English tenor, Richard Butler, is a 2013 Gramophone award-winning artist as principal soloist for the Gabrieli Consort (Director: Paul McCreesh) (A New Venetian Coronation, 1595),. He currently lives in Sydney, Australia.
Richard Butler made his debut with West Australian Symphony Orchestra. (WASO), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO) in 2014 singing George Frideric Handel's Messiah. He was also soloist for the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra's 25th anniversary series and Monteverdi's Orfeo, performed in the Canberra International Festival singing various J.S. Bach cantatas and G.F. Handel's Israel in Egypt and was Evangelist and aria soloist in J.S. Bach's St John Passion (BWV 245) at St James', Sydney with the Australian Haydn Ensemble. At University of Western Australia (UWA), he was the tenor soloist in Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. He also sang the role of Pilate in Arvo Pärt's Passio for Carl Crossin and the Adelaide Chamber Singers as well as for Song Company in Sydney and was Evangelist in J.S. Bach's St Matthew Passion (BWV 244) at Elder Hall, Adelaide.
Recently Richard Butler sang Messiah for Trinity College, Melbourne at MRC, G.F. Handel's Judas Maccabaeus and Monteverdi Vespers at St George's Cathedral, Perth, St John Passion (BWV 245) for WASO, St Matthew Passion (BWV 244) for Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and B. Britten's St Nicolas for Brett Weymark and Sydney Chamber Choir. He also performed with the Gabrieli Consort at the Met in New York.
Next year Richard Buler will be returning to WASO and MSO singing G.F. Handel and J.S. Bach as well as Haydn's Creation for Nicholas Bannan in WA and will be Evangelist in the first ever performance of J.S. Bach's St John Passion (BWV 245) in Bogotá, Colombia with Dr Carlos Alvarado. He is a founding member of Bach Akademie Australia (Director: Madeleine Easton) and Principal Lay Clerk at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney. He sang as the tenor in Pinchgut Opera's first concert J.S. Bach/Georg Philipp Telemann in 2019. |
