Andrew Mayor

Baritone Andrew Mayor was born in Manchester and having studied law and qualified as a solicitor went on to win a postgraduate scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music where he received various prizes. Andrew was the baritone soloist at the Osterfestpiele in Salzburg in two performances at the Grossesfestspielhaus of Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia with Maurizio Pollini and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado.

Andrew has enjoyed oratorio and concert appearances with choral societies and groups around the UK.  Appearances include Acis and Galatea with the City of London Sinfonia at St John’s, Smith Square, Sea Symphony in Sherbourn Abbey,  Carmina Burana and L’Enfance du Christ  in the De Montfort Hall, Leicester with the Leicester Philharmonic Choir, Petite Messe Solonelle in Rippon Cathedral, Missa Solemnis in Wells Cathederal,  Fauré’s Requiem and A Child of our Time in St James, Piccadilly, London, Brahms’ Requiem in Ely and Birmingham Cathedrals, Purcell’s Come ye sons of Art at the Queen Elizabeth Hall London, Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall and the title role in Elijah in the Dukes Hall at his alma mater: the Royal Academy of Music.

Rôles in Opera in the UK include Silvio I Pagliacci for Castleward Opera, The Vicar Albert Herring, Masetto Don Giovanni and Ford Falstaff, for English Touring Opera, the Count Le Nozze di Figaro, Rigoletto, Eugene Onegin and Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera all at the Holland Park Festival, Don Giovanni for Mid Wales Opera, Starveling A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Linbury Theatre for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden conducted by Richard Hickox, Nabucco at the Richmond Theatre, the Music Master in a concert performance of Ariadne auf Naxos at the Windsor Festival, Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Edinburgh. He also sang Matthieu Andrea Chenier in the Queen Elizabeth Hall. So far Andrew has sung 12 leading rôles in Verdi operas including Miller in Luisa Miller and Don Carlo in La forza del destino.

Conductors with whom Andrew has worked include Sir David Willcocks, Hilary Davan Wetton, Fabrizio Ventura, Mark Shanahan, Andrew Phillips, Nicholas Kraemer, Christopher Green OBE, Sir Roger Norrington and Ivor Bolton.

Internationally Andrew has taken part in a nationwide tour of the USA performing Danilo Die lustige Witwe for Columbia Artists and toured throughout Europe singing Sharpless Madama Butterfly for Compagnia d’ Opera Italiana di Milano. Other international engagements include Prospero in Berio’s Un Re In Ascolto at the Städtische Bühnen Münster, Man 1 in Harrison Birtwhistle’s The IO Passion at the Konzerthaus, Berlin, Gianni Schicchi in the Teatro Communale Monteleone di Spoleto, Germont, La Traviata and Escamillo, Carmen for the Arts Council of Penang in in Kuala Lumpur and Penang and recitals in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto.

Recently Andrew sang Donner, Das Rheingold and Gunther, Götterdämmerung in Regents Opera’s critically acclaimed Der Ring des Nibelungen in London, of which Opera Magazine said: – “Andrew Mayor was superb as the slippery Gunther”.

Future plans include the title roles in Verdi’s masterpieces, Simon Boccanegra and Nabucco.

May 2025

www.andrewmayor.com

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