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Iestyn Davies

Praised as having ‘one of the most glorious counter-tenor voices in the world today’ by the Independent and called ‘superb’ by the New York Times, Iestyn Davies confirmed his status as one of the world’s rising stars of the international music scene in winning the Young Artist prize at the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards in 2010.

A versatile countertenor equally at home on both the opera and concert stage, Iestyn has performed at Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Zürich Opera,  Glyndebourne Festival Opera, New York City Opera, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and The Metropolitan Opera, New York.

Performing across the world, he has performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan with Gustavo Dudamel, the Concertgebouw and Tonhalle with Ton Koopman and appeared at the Barbican, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Lincoln Centre and at the BBC Proms.

His recordings include Handel's Messiah for Naxos, Handel's Chandos Anthems for Hyperion, Handel’s Flavio for Chandos with The Early Opera Company and Christian Curnyn, his debut solo recording Live at the Wigmore Hall with his own Ensemble Guadagni, a disc of Porpora Cantatas with Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo, disc of Guadagni arias both for Hyperion and most recently ‘Your Tuneful Voice – Handel Oratorio Arias’ with The Kings Consort and Robert King for VIVAT.

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