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The English Concert is an outstanding orchestra: exceptional, in the world-renowned quality, ambition and variety of its live and recorded output; unique, in the zeal of its players for working and performing together; unwavering, in its desire to connect with its audience throughout the world.
Under the artistic direction of Harry Bicket and principal guest Kristian Bezuidenhout, The English Concert has earned a reputation for combining urgency, passion and fire with precision, delicacy and beauty.
The artistic partners we collaborate with reflect and enhance our pursuit for new ways to bring our music to life. Joyce DiDonato, Dame Sarah Connolly, Iestyn Davies, Alison Balsom, Trevor Pinnock, Dominic Dromgoole, Tom Morris and many more have not only brought their extraordinary skills to individual projects but continue to help us to shape the way we perform.
One cornerstone of the orchestra’s annual cycle is its international Handel Opera tour. Blossoming from an ongoing relationship with Carnegie Hall, the itinerary now regularly takes in the Theater an der Wien, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Elbphilharmonie and Barbican Hall, and the roster of great halls continues to grow. Meanwhile, our regular London series allows us to explore a radically different path, presenting programmes to our home audience that challenge and inspire us.
In 2023, The English Concert launched their ambitious Handel for All project, which aims to film and make freely available all of Handel’s works online.
The English Concert
Harry Bicket Artistic Director and Conductor
Internationally renowned as an opera and concert conductor of distinction, Harry Bicket is especially noted for his interpretation of baroque and classical repertoire. Since 2007 he has been Artistic Director of The English Concert, one of Europe’s finest period orchestras, with whom he recently embarked on a project to film every piece of Handel to create an on-line resource for all. He is Music Director of the Santa Fe Opera where his productions include Orfeo, Carmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Le nozze di Figaro, Fidelio, La Finta Giardiniera, Cosi fan tutte, Romeo et Juliette, Alcina, Candide and Pelleas et Melisande.
Elsewhere in the U.S., he is a regular guest at the Metropolitan Opera where in 2022 he conducted Rodelinda and Le nozze di Figaro. This season he returns to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for a special collaboration with the Joffrey Ballet.
He appears frequently in Europe, making his Paris Opera debut last season with Ariodante and returning this season for Giulio Cesare. At the Bavarian State Opera, Munich, he has conducted Rinaldo, Ariodante, Serse, Orlando, Orfeo ed Euridice, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Die Entfuehrung aus dem Serail and Die Zauberfloete. In Barcelona at the Liceu, he was awarded the Opera Critics Prize for best conductor for Giulio Cesare.
A regular guest in the UK, he made his Glyndebourne Festival debut in 1996 in Peter Sellars’s landmark production of Theodora, and has made numerous appearances at the English National Opera, Scottish Opera and Welsh National Opera. His Theodora at the Royal Opera House in 2022 was nominated for an Olivier Award for best new production.
Born in Liverpool, he studied at the Royal College of Music and Oxford University, where he was organ scholar at Christ Church. He was appointed Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in 2018.
Lucy Crowe Soprano
Born in Staffordshire, Lucy Crowe studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where she is a Fellow. She was made an OBE in the 2023 King’s Birthday Honours.
In recital she has appeared at the Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Mostly Mozart and Salzburg Festivals and the BBC Proms. Lucy has a vast discography. Her debut disc for Linn records featuring Berg, Strauss, and Schoenberg was released in the summer of 2021. Lucy received a Grammy nomination in 2021 for Best Opera Recording for Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen with the London Symphony Orchestra/ Sir Simon Rattle.
Iestyn Davies Countertenor
Iestyn Davies is a British countertenor widely recognised as one of the world’s finest singers celebrated for the beauty and technical dexterity of his voice and intelligent musicianship. Critical recognition of Iestyn’s work can be seen in two Gramophone Awards, a Grammy Award, a RPS Award for Young Singer of the Year, the Critics’ Circle Award and recently an Olivier Award Nomination. He was appointed MBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours List 2017 for services to music.
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen Countertenor
Acclaimed as a “young star” and “complete artist” by the New York Times, American countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen is one of the classical vocal world's most promising rising stars.
He has been awarded by many major competitions, including 2023 George and Nora London Foundation Award. His first commercial recording project - the world premiere recording of Kenneth Fuchs' Poems of Life with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by JoAnn Falletta - was honored with a 2019 GRAMMY® Award in the Best Classical Compendium category, which recognizes albums with multiple soloists and multiple works.
Eric Ferring Tenor
Eric Ferring’s recent engagements have included Tamino The Magic Flute, Arturo Lucia di Lammermoor, Pong Turandot and Royal Herald Don Carlo for the Metropolitan Opera, New York; Lurcanio Ariodante for the Opéra national de Paris and the Lyric Opera of Chicago; Lysander A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Opéra de Rouen Normandie; Fenton Falstaff in Santa Fe and Tamino for the Opéra national du Rhin.
In the 2023/24 season Eric returns to the Opéra de Rouen Normandie as Don Ottavio Don Giovanni, makes his debut with the Opéra de Lille in the same role and sings Grimoaldo Rodelinda in an international concert tour with The English Concert and Harry Bicket. He gives recitals at The Florentine Opera and in Las Palmas and, in concert, he appears with the Tampa Oratorio Singers under Nancy Callahan and with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra under William Intriligator.
Christine Rice Mezzo Soprano
Christine Rice is one of the leading British mezzo sopranos of her generation, and was appointed MBE in 2023 New Year Honours for services to opera.
Christine Rice’s operatic appearances have taken her to the Metropolitan Opera, New York; the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; the Opéra national de Paris; Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; Deutsche Oper, Berlin; Madrid’s Teatro Real; the Opernhaus Zürich and the Glyndebourne and Salzburg Festivals.
Brandon Cedel Bass-baritone
American Bass-baritone Brandon Cedel is a recent graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, and was an ensemble member of Oper Frankfurt from 2016-2019.
Highlights in his 2023/24 season include a return to the Metropolitan Opera as Dan Brown in a revival of Kevin Puts’ The Hours; a return to the Boston Lyric Opera as Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola, his debut for the Komische Oper, Berlin in the title role of a new production of Hercules, his debut for Des Moines Metro Opera as Goulaud in Pelleas et Mélisande and Garibado in an international concert tour of Rodelinda with The English Concert/Harry Bicket.
