Stephen Varcoe has established a reputation as one of Britain’s most versatile baritones. He has made over 125 recordings including works by Hahn, Chabrier, Finzi, Gurney, Stanford, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Schubert, Nigel Osborne and Thea Musgrave and John Tavener, and has joined Richard Hickox for numerous releases of Haydn, Beethoven, Vaughan-Williams, Grainger and Britten on Chandos. On the concert platform, Stephen has appeared with orchestras in the UK, Scandinavia, Europe, Japan and North America, working with conductors including Brüggen, Christie, Herreweghe, Knussen, Leonhardt, Norrington, Rifkin, Kuijken, Marriner and Malgoire. He has regularly taken part in the BBC Proms and festivals throughout the world and appears in recital with Roger Vignoles, Graham Johnson, Julius Drake and Ian Burnside. Stephen Varcoe’s opera engagements have taken him to Antwerp, Lisbon, Drottningholm (Stockholm) and Tokyo where he has appeared in works by Monteverdi, Haydn, Debussy, Holst, Britten and Taverner.