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The English bass-baritone and German-English translator, William Burn, trained as a choral scholar at King's College London, where obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language and Literature with 1st class Honors (1998-2001). He studies with Lynne Wayman. He lived in Nürnberg, Germany before moving to Nottingham to perform and teach. He was Head of English at Epsom College (March 2014-June 2018).
As a bass-baritone, William Burn is in demand as a performer of oratorio and consort music from the Middle Ages to contemporary music. He has performed many oratorio roles, including the J.S. Bach's Passions, George Frideric Handel's Messiah & Judas Maccabeus; J. Haydn's The Creation (most recently for Sir Nicholas McGegan at Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall), Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah, Ralph Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs, Dvorak's Stabat Mater, Edward Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle and Stabat Mater and the Requiems of Verdi, W.A. Mozart, Gabriel Fauré and Maurice Duruflé. Staged operatic performances include Dido and Aeneas, Acis and Galatea, W.A. Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne, and Lampe's The Dragon of Wantley as part of the Ross-on-Wye International Festival.
A particular area of interest for song and Lieder, with recent programmes including F. Schubert's Winterreise, Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Opus 24 and 39 cycles, Richard Rodney Bennett’s Songs Before Sleep, Wolf’s Michaelangelolieder and Quilter’s Seven Elizabethan Lyrics, along with Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad at Southwell Minster and Dichterliebe in Derby Cathedral. William is the artistic director of The Nottingham Baroque Soloists, whose repertoire includes cantatas by J.S. Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle.
William Burn also works as a translator and subtitler from German (since June 2018), specialising in academia and the social sciences. His recent work includes reports to the United Nations Human Rights Council and reports on human rights issues in Germany. He also provides English-language translations for the German Federal Government Press Agency. As a subtitler he specialises in documentaries for Arte, including work on arts, culture and human rights. |
