British countertenor Andrew Radley specialises in the great opera roles written for the alto castrato voice by Handel and other leading composers of the 17th and 18th Centuries. He read Music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a Choral Scholar, before receiving scholarships to the postgraduate and opera courses at the Royal Academy of Music.
He has worked as a soloist with many of the leading conductors of the repertoire such as René Jacobs, Christian Curnyn, Konrad Junghänel, Richard Egarr, Laurence Cummings, Nicholas Cleobury, Pierre Cao, Nicholas McGegan, Paul Goodwin, Graeme Jenkins, Ian Page and Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
His recent operatic engagements have included Handel’s Giulio Cesare (Opera North), Orlando (Scottish Opera), Jephtha (Royal Danish Opera), Belshazzar (Berlin Staatsoper), Flavio and Susanna (Early Opera Company), Admeto and Poro (Göttingen Handel Festival), Tamerlano and Agrippina (Cambridge Handel Opera). Recent concert engagments have included Handel’s Giulio Cesare with the Freiburger Barockorchester with René Jacobs, Bach’s St John Passion with Il Fondamento, Arne’s Alfred with the Classical Opera Company and Handel’s Theodora in the London Handel Festival.
His first solo CD Conversazioni with Sounds Baroque has recently been released on Avie Records to great critical acclaim.
Future plans include Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and his debut for Welsh National Opera in Handel’s Jephtha.