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The English bass-baritone, Dingle Yandell, studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Brian Parsons (2001-2005), graduating with Bachelor of Music degree with Honors. He now studies singing independently with Jessica Cash. He is an alumni of the National Opera Studio, London (2015-2016) and is the grateful recipient of a Sybil Tutton Opera Award administered by Help Musicians UK.
Recent operatic roles include the title role in Don Pasquale for Rye Arts Festival, Don Alfonso and Figaro from scenes of the W.A. Mozart's Da Ponte Operas at Opera North conducted by Aleksandar Markovic, Talbot from Maria Stuarda and Collatinus from Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia at Welsh National Opera directed by Elaine Kidd, Mel from scenes of The Knot Garden at Sadlers Wells directed by Graham Vick, The Jester from The Remarkable Rocket by the Waste Paper Opera company for the Tête a Tête Festival in London and Plutone in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in Germany for Christina Pluhar and L'Arpeggiata.
Dingle Yandell has recently given a recital of operatic arias for Rhinegold Live at the Conway Hall, a recital of German Lieder with Ian Burnside and a recital of English Song with Susan Bullock. Recent solo work includes A venetian coronation with the Gabrieli Consort under Paul McCreesh at the Lincoln Centre in New York and a tour with Holland Baroque. Future roles will be Colliné (cover) from La Boheme with Scottish Opera (January 2018) and Seneca from Monteverdi's Poppea with Bach Collegium Japan in Tokyo. Dingle Yandell will also be joining the Alvarez Young Artist Program at Garsington Opera in 2017 singing the role of the Doctor Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande.
Dingle Yandell joined Voces Cantabiles Music in 2005, and was a founder member of the award-winning British ensemble Voces8 with whom he toured internationally for ten years. Notable performances include Tokyo Opera City and Oji Hall, Tokyo, The Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, St Petersburg, Moscow International House of Music, National Centre for Performing Arts, Beijing, National Concert Hall, Taipei, The Rheingau Festival, Germany, Köln Cathedral, The Minneapolis Basilica, The Wigmore Hall, Cité de la Musique, Paris, and Tel Aviv Opera House. He has also appeared regularly on BBC Radio, Classic FM and MPR and made many recordings for Signum Records and Decca Classics.
Solo concert engagements have included J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) and George Frideric Handel's Messiah at Hitomi Hall, Tokyo, and with the Orchestra of Opera North, J.S. Bach's Wachet Auf and Erfreut Euch at Dijon Opera House, Ralph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music directed by John Wilson at The Royal Festival Hall, R.Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on Christmas Carols at Isumi Hall, Osaka, 'The Cold Song' from Purcell's King Arthur with Les Inventions, Purcell's O Sing Unto the Lord with Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort, Phoebus in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with Christina Pluhar and L'Arpeggiata at The Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht. L.v. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 at Colston Hall in Bristol, G.F. Handel's Theodora with Basingstoke Choral Society, Dvorak's Stabat Mater at Winchester Cathedral, Rossini's Stabat Mater for the Rossini Society.
In 2013, Dingle Yandell composed and performed the Bass-Baritone role for part-improvised opera The Lingerer by Max Perryment, one of ENO's shortlisted mini-operas. |
