Andrew Sparling

Voice Type :
Baritone

E-mail Address :
sparling@highway57.co.uk

ANDREW SPARLING - BARITONE

EDUCATION
1980-3: Open Scholarship in Music and Choral Exhibition to Clare College, Cambridge; M.A. in Music.
1983-4: Guildhall School of Music & Drama (Post-Diploma Orchestral Training).
1984-5: Countess of Munster Trust Award for private clarinet studies.

PROFESSIONAL DETAILS
Voice work:
Presentation for BBC Radio 3 programmes 'Hear and Now' (1995-8) and 'Iconoclassics' (1997), also features for the Young Artists' Forum (1994-5).

Instrumental performance:
Orchestral, ensemble and solo work, including contemporary music and period instrument performance. Opera companies include Almeida (1994 - present), Covent Garden (Linbury 2000 / 7 and main stage 2007), The Opera Group (Young Vic / Buxton), New Kent Opera, Broomhill Opera, Tete-a-Tete, Classical Opera Company, Armonico Consort.

Acting Work:
BBC2 TV series "The Genius of Mozart" and "Beethoven". Sound recordings and filmed scenes of chamber and orchestral music in rehearsal and performance, also speaking role of Anton Stadler.

Vocal studies:
Private tuition with Alison Wells and Graham Titus.
Tuition with Jenny Miller and Penny Randall-Davis on 2007 Complete Singer course, with staged scenes as Count in The Marriage of Figaro, Acts I, III and IV.

Vocal Performance:
Lavender Hill Opera, March 2009 - Ben The Telephone and staged extracts from Mozart: Count Almaviva, Guglielmo, Don Giovanni, Leporello, Papageno.
Charity recital for Homestart Kingston, Kingston Grammar School, September 2008. Programme including Britten, Scott, Warlock, Woodforde-Finden, Donizetti, Rakhmaninov, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky.
Eygalieres Summer Festival, Provence, August 2008. Songs with small ensemble by Prokofiev and Adams.
Charity recital for Homestart Kingston, Kingston Grammar School, September 2008. Programme including Britten, Scott, Warlock, Woodforde-Finden, Donizetti, Rakhmaninov, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky.