Richard Edgar-Wilson has worked as a tenor concert soloist around the world, collaborating with many of our best conductors including François-Xavier Roth, Mark Minkowski, Edward Gardner, Sir Roger Norrington, Trevor Pinnock, Vladimir Jurowski, Philipe Herreweghe, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Jeffrey Tate, Thierry Fischer and Sir Charles Mackerras. His many recitals include numerous performances at London’s Wigmore Hall and for the BBC, including concerts with Graham Johnson, Malcolm Martineau, Roger Vignoles and Eugene Asti. On the opera stage he has appeared at Garsington, Norwegian Opera, Scottish Opera and Covent Garden and sung Tamino in Portugal and New Zealand, Acisin Toronto and London, and Death in Venice for ENO and in Amsterdam, Brussels, Luxembourg and at La Scala, Milan. He has made over fifty solo recordings including Messiah, Mozart Requiem, Stradella San Giovanni Battista (winner of a Gramophone Award), Schubert Die Schöne Müllerin, Britten Winter Words, Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge, and works by Arne, Monteverdi (with the Consort of Musicke), Purcell, Boyce, Eric Coates, Howard Blake and Bernard Herrmann amongst many others.
Richard’s was the very first voice to be heard at Grange Park Opera House and he appeared as Radames in the Oscar-nominated Scandinavian feature film Suffløsen and Beauty in Gerald Barry’s The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit for Channel 4 TV. In recent years he has sung on numerous Hollywood movies with London Voices including the final Harry Potter and Hobbit films, James Bond Spectre, Mission Impossible, The Grand Budapest Hotel and the Fantastic Beasts films.
Much in demand as a singing teacher, vocal coach, adjudicator and conductor, Richard has given master classes in Austria, America and Singapore, and at the Britten-Pears School, Dartington and Benslow. He writes reviews and articles for a variety of musical publications and for four years was Treasurer of the multi-disciplinary British Voice Association. He gave the Fifth Annual Wolsey Lecture at the University of Suffolk, and was presented with an Honorary Doctorate from the same university in 2017.