NEIL SIMON TENOR AND CLASSICAL GUITARIST

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Neil Simon Tenor and Classical Guitarist - 07739 475 935

OPERA
Neil's lyric tenor vocal skills have been recognised by a number of opera companies including London Opera Players, Candlelight Opera, Opera Live, Opera Box, London Opera Productions, City of Birmingham Opera, Chorleywood Opera, Opera School Wales and St.Albans Chamber Opera.

He has appeared as Ferrando in 'Cosi Fan Tutte' (Mozart) including a recent tour to France and in the UK, Spoletta in Tosca (Puccini), Borsa in Rigoletto (Verdi), Gastone in 'La Traviata' (Verdi), Remendado in 'Carmen'( Bizet), The Squire in ‘Thomas & Sally’ (Arne), Capt. Silvio in 'Dr Miracle' (Bizet), King Caspar in 'Amahl and the Night Visitors' (Menotti) and Tamino in 'The Magic Flute’ (Mozart). Operettas include Eisenstein in 'Die Fledermaus' (Strauss), and as a noble in 'Mikado' (Gilbert and Sullivan).


ORATORIO
An Oratorio singer in much demand Neil recently sang the Evangelist in Shutz’s Weinacht Historie, in Handel's Dettingen te Deum, in Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Haydn’s Nelson Mass. Other works he has sung include Duphy’s The Kingdom of God , Haydn’s Creation , Gounod’s Messe Solenelle and Handel’s Messiah with the Birmingham Festival Choral Society, Welwyn Choral, Farnborough College singers, the Stour singers and Ampthill Choral Society.

CONCERTS
Neil's concert work has included working with London Opera Productions, Candlelight Opera, Qopera and Opera Live! in such venues as Polesden Lacey NT, Loseley House, Penshurst Place, Victoria Embankment Gardens, Covent Garden Piazza and Hitchin Priory. He recently performed at the Ampthill Festival in an operetta evening with soprano Susan Heaton-Wright.


Neil has also performed as a tenor in concert with Guitarists Carlos Bonell, Timothy Walker and Amanda Cook covering a wide range of repertoire from English Lute song to Spanish and South American songs. He has performed with the Dillington Festival guitar ensemble in songs by Villa Lobos at the Dillington Guitar Festival, and at the Kendal midday concert club. He recently performed these again at the Purcell rooms on the South Bank and will be appeared again at Dillington with songs by Jobim and Bacharach.

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