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Baritone Andrew Conley has wide and varied experience
in Opera and Theatre. A graduate of The Royal College of Music, London,
where
he studied for three years, he was a member of the
prestigious Benjamin Britten International Opera School. He
continues to study with
Russell Smythe, and is based in
London.
His roles at the Royal College of Music included Guglielmo in Cosi Fan Tutte, Junius in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia and Falke in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus. For New Zealand Opera, he has sung Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Guglielmo, Rossini’s Figaro, Mityukha (Boris Godunov), and L’Hotelier in Manon. Other roles include John Shears and Ben Benny for Dartington, Fiorello for Pimlico Opera, as well as Pluto in Orpheus in the Underworld, Slook in La Cambiale di Matrimonio, Mr Kofner in The Consul, and Ben in The Telephone.
He has been fortunate enough to recieve one on one tuition with Dame Kiri te Kanawa, and has particpated in masterclasses with Sir Thomas Allen, Phillip Langridge, Sherrill Milnes, Rosalynd Plowright and Virginia Zeani, among others.
During his time in New Zealand he won both the Auckland Aria and the Wellington Evening Post Aria competitions. In 2002 he was the only male finalist in the Mobil Song Quest and has also been a semi-finalist in the Sydney McDonald’s Aria. More recently, he was a finalist in the 2007 Royal Overseas League SInging Competition and a semi–finalist in the prestigious Kathleen Ferrier Singing Competition at the Wigmore Hall in 2006. He is the recipient of several major New Zealand scholarships, from the Auckland Opera Guild, Tower New Zealand, Auckland Grammar School, The Patricia Pratt Foundation, and Creative New Zealand, and received the Derek Butler Trust Award through the Royal College of Music, London. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and English from the University of Auckland, which he completed while studying privately with New Zealand baritone David Griffiths. Later he studied with Dame Malvina Major during his tenure with the New Zealand Opera Young Artists Programme.
On the concert stage in England he has performed with the London Mozart
Players, and more recently with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa at Blenheim Palace.
He has been a soloist for the New Zealand Festival, Auckland Choral
Society, the Hamilton Civic Choir, and Auckland’s Sky City Starlight
Symphony. He has also been a
He has just completed a tour of England with Neville Holt / Pimlico Opera, performing in the Barber of Seville.
He recently returned to New Zealand at the request of
the Patricia Pratt Foundation for a concert at Te Papa in Future engagements include Lorenzo in I Capuletti e i Montecchi, and a role in Prokofiev's The Gambler, for Grange Park Opera and Pimlico Opera.
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