British tenor, Guy Cutting is quickly establishing himself as one of Europe’s most sought-after young tenors. He is in particular demand for his interpretations of Bach and other masters of the baroque.
He has collaborated with many of the foremost practitioners on the period performance scene such as Philippe Herreweghe, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Maasaki Suzuki, John Butt, Paul McCreesh, Jos van Veldhoven, Nicholas Kraemer, Andrew Parrott and Marcus Creed, as well as the new generation of conductors and directors including Jonathan Cohen, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Peter Whelan, Laurence Cummings, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Stephan MacLeod, David Bates, Daniel Reuss, Risto Joost, Kristian Bezuidenhout and Reinoud van Mechelen. He was a Rising Star with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for the 2019-2021 season, and also the inaugural recipient of the American Bach Soloists' Jeffrey Thomas Award. Highlights of the recent seasons include: Guy’s BBC Proms debut at London’s Royal Albert Hall with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & John Butt; recordings of Bach cantatas with Philippe Herreweghe, Hans-Christoph Rademann and Shunske Sato. Handel’s Acis & Galatea with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Leonardo Garcia Alarcon; Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge with Britten Sinfonia in London & Norwich; and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the OAE & Maasaki Suzuki, alongside his brother Hugh. |
Recent collaborators include the English Chamber Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Gli Angeli Geneve, Dunedin Consort, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, The Academy of Ancient Music, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Arcangelo, the Orchestra of the 18th Century, The Gabrieli Consort, La Nuova Musica, Swedish Baroque Orchestra, The Netherlands Bach Society, The Orchestra of Tokyo University, Voces Tallinn, the American Bach Soloists, Real Filharmonia de Galicia, and Le Concert Lorrain.
Guy has recorded Bach with Philippe Herreweghe on Outhere Music ; Mozart, Charpentier, Couperin and Blow with Edward Higginbottom on Novum; Gabriel Jackson's Passion on Delphian with Merton College Choir, Oxford; and Bononcini with The Academy of Ancient Music on Signum Classics; and Scarlatti and Handel with the Brook Street Band on Avie. Guy has frequently recorded and filmed with Netherlands Bach Society for their All of Bach channel; with Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe for Evil Penguin ; and with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for their OAE Player. Also with the OAE, Guy filmed Schubert's Trout with Kristian Bezuidenhout, and Telemann with Steven Devine. Recital appearances have included Gurney and Butterworth at the Oundle International Music Festival; Britten and Finzi at the Clifton International Festival of Music; Bach and Handel for the Haapsalu Early Music Festival in Estonia, and also for the Festival Musikdorf Ernen in Switzerland; and Haydn Canzonettas with Steven Devine at the Wiltshire Music Centre. He has also given recitals in Shizuoka, Japan (Purcell), and with baroque harpist, Aileen Henry (Purcell) at The Music Room, London. Guy is a member of Damask Vocal Quartet - an ensemble specialising in the 19th and 20th century chamber repertoire. With this quartet, he has enjoyed exploring the majority of the romantic repertoire for voice and piano. He is also an experienced ensemble singer, having worked with many of the UK's leading groups at the start of his career including The Tallis Scholars, The Monteverdi Choir, Marian Consort, The Sixteen, Tenebrae, Alamire, The Taverner Choir, Contrapunctus, Magnificat, and the Cambridge Singers. With these groups, Guy has recorded extensively and toured to Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia. Guy's upcoming projects include a Messiah recording with Irish Baroque Orchestra & Peter Whelan in Dublin; a Stravinsky recording with the Noord Nederland Orkest & Daniel Reuss in Holland; an English song recital for Collegium Vocale’s Crete Senesi festival in Tuscany with pianist George Ireland; Bach’s St. Matthew Passion (Evangelist) at the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart with Hans-Christoph Rademann; European tours of Bach’s B minor mass with Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe; Handel with Capella Mediterranea & Leonardo Garcia Alarcon in Belgium and France; Bach cantatas with Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen in the UK; Bach’s B minor mass with Gli Angeli Geneve & Stephan MacLeod; and Mozart’s Requiem with the Orchestra of the 18th Century & Daniel Reuss in The Netherlands. |