The tenor Robert Murray studied at the Royal College of Music and National Opera Studio and won second prize in the Kathleen Ferrier Awards in 2003. He was a Jette Parker Young Artist at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden where he has sung Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Borsa (Rigoletto), Gastone (La traviata), Harry (La fanciulla del West), Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Agenore (Il re pastore), Belfiore (La finta giardiniera), Jacquino (Fidelio), and Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni). At English National Opera he has appeared as Simpleton (Boris Godunov), Tamino, Toni Reischmann (Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers), Idamante (Idomeneo), Don Ottavio, and Steuermann (Der fliegende Holländer). He has also performed at Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Garsington Opera, Staatsoper Hamburg, Den Norske Opera, and Glyndebourne on Tour. He has appeared in concert and recital at the Wigmore Hall, the Newbury, Two Moors, Brighton, Aldeburgh, and Edinburgh International festivals, and with the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar under Gustavo Dudamel, Handel and Haydn Society under Harry Christophers, and Mahler Chamber Orchestra under Alan Gilbert. During the 2016 / 17 season Robert Murray will appear in productions of Handel’s Partenope at English National Opera, Handel’s Semele at Garsington Opera, and Peter Grimes at the Edinburgh Festival, and perform in concert with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra under Simone Young, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra under Edward Gardner, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Nicholas Collon, and Konzerthausorchester Berlin under Paul McCreesh.