Jeremy Ovenden

Jeremy Ovenden studied at The Royal College of Music, London and privately with Nicolai Gedda. His regular Mozart appearances have included Ferrando Così fan tutte for The Royal Opera, Covent Garden and Staatsoper Berlin; Ottavio Don Giovanni at La Scala, Milan and Staatsoper Berlin; Count Belfiore La finta giardiniera at La Monnaie, Brussels; Vogelsang Der Schauspieldirektor with Concerto Köln and Publio Il sogno di Scipione and Ozia Betulia Liberata with Concentus Musicus. Appearances at the Salzburg Festival include Fracasso La finta semplice; Don Asdrubale Lo Sposo Deluso, Biondello L’Oco del Cairo and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor. He has also appeared at Netherlands Opera and in concerts with the London Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestras and Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin.

Conductors with whom Jeremy has collaborated include Sir Colin Davis, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Vladimir Jurowski, Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Christophe Rousset, Ivor Bolton, Jeremie Rhorer, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Paul McCreesh Rene Jacobs, Rinaldo Alessandrini and Giovanni Antonini in repertoire ranging from Monteverdi, Bach and Handel through Mozart and Haydn, to Berlioz, Britten, Szymanowski and Henze. Jeremy’s extensive discography includes Mozart’s Il sogno di Scipione, Betulia Liberata, La finta semplice, L’Oca del Cairo and Lo Sposo Deluso; Bach’s St Mark Passion and St John Passion and Cantatas; Biber’s Missa Salisburgensis; Handel’s Ode for St Cecilia’s Day and Saul; Haydn’s The Seasons and The Creation; Holst’s Morning of the Year and Book VIII of Monteverdi Madrigals.