Robert Rice

Baritone

Robert Rice was a choral scholar at King's College, Cambridge and a postgraduate at the Royal Academy of Music in London, under Mark Wildman. He continued his studies with Richard Smart and Sheila Barnes.

Robert is in great demand as a concert artist throughout the British Isles and abroad. He sings regularly with the major choral societies, including, most recently, those of Hereford, Worcester, and Wokingham. He has appeared at Three Choirs Festival in Hereford, the Windsor Festival, the St David's Festival and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, among others. During a busy season in early 2003 he will perform Elijah for Henley Choral Society, Bach's Mass in B minor with the Northern Sinfonia, and Mozart's Mass in C minor with the CBSO at Birmingham Symphony Hall.

On stage Robert has a growing reputation for demanding twentieth-century roles. He has appeared in Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King, at the South Bank, and his The Martyrdom of Saint Magnus for the Opera Group, as well as Ligeti's Aventures/Nouvelles Aventures at the Bonn Chance Festival, and Arcane, by Paul Clark, for Opera Circus at the Cardiff International Festival of Musical Theatre last October. Further credits include the Vicar in Albert Herring for Opera East Productions and the Sailor in Dido and Aeneas for the Gabrieli Consort at the Théatre du Chatelet, Paris.

Robert has been featured regularly on television and radio, most recently singing music by Richard Terry live on Christmas Day on BBC1, and appearing on BBC Masterclass with Barbara Bonney. He is also increasingly in demand as an arranger of vocal music, and is published by Novello.