Gerald Finley Bass-Baritone

This Canadian baritone has become one of the leading singers and dramatic interpreters of his generation, with award-winning performances and recordings on CD and DVD with major labels and performing at the world’s major opera and concert venues in a wide variety of repertoire. His recent awards include Best Solo Vocal Recording 2009 for Schumann's Dichterliebe and other Heine Settings and in 2008, for his disc of Songs by Samuel Barber, both at the Classic FM Gramophone Awards. This follows the Editor’s Choice Award at the 2006 Classic FM Gramophone Awards. His active relationship with leading conductors including Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Simon Rattle, Bernard Haitink, Alan Gilbert and Antonio Pappano has been part of a flourishing career.

This season, Mr Finley will return to the Metropolitan Opera as Marcello in La Boheme and as Don Giovanni in a new production at Glyndebourne, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. He will also perform Iago with Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony in concert.

Concert highlights this season include the BBC Symphony in works by Mahler and Mussorgsky, Brahms Requiem with the Berlin Philharmoniker, Lieberson Songs with the Boston Symphony and Beethoven 9 with Jansons in Munich. In recital, he will perform in Berlin, Madrid, Brusssels, The Hague and in North America in Toronto, Vancouver, Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta and at Cargenie Hall. Great successes this summer at the Schwetzingen Festival and the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg have confirmed Mr Finley’s reputation as one of the foremost recitalists today.

Mr Finley’s recent CD albums of Barber and Ives songs, in continuing partnership with Julius Drake on the Hyperion label, have been critically acclaimed. Songs by Samuel Barber won the Best Solo Vocal Recording category of the 2008 Classic FM Gramophone Awards, and the Charles Ives Songs Romanzo di Central Park was nominated in the same category. In 2006 and 2008, he was nominated “Artist of the Year”. At the 2008 Canadian Juno Awards he received two nominations in the 'Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral Performance' category, in a nod to his contribution to the CD Schubert Among Friends (Marquis Classics) along with Songs by Samuel Barber. His disk of Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel (CBC Records) with pianist Stephen Ralls won the 1997 Juno Award.

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