Guy Cutting

British tenor Guy Cutting is establishing himself as a sought-after interpreter of Bach and other masters of the baroque. He has collaborated with a number of the foremost practitioners on the period performance scene such as Philippe Herreweghe, Nicholas Kraemer, John Butt, Paul McCreesh, Marcus Creed, Jeffrey Thomas and Jos van Veldhoven as well as the new generation of conductors and directors including Jonathan Cohen, Laurence Cummings, Leonardo García Alarcón, Shunske Sato, Robert Howarth, Steven Devine and Reinoud van Mechelen.

Guy Cutting’s engagements have included appearances with The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (including his BBC Proms début singing the Bach’s Mass in B minor), The Academy of Ancient Music, Monteverdi Choir, Collegium Vocale Gent, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic, The Gabrieli Consort, The Dunedin Consort, De Nederlandse Bachvereniging, the English Chamber Orchestra Swedish Baroque Orchestra, Real Filharmonía de Galicia and the American Bach Soloists.

 

He has performed Schubert with Kristian Bezuidenhout (released on OAEPlayer) and has given recitals of Gurney and Butterworth at the Oundle International Music Festival and Britten and Finzi at the Clifton International Festival of Music with pianist Hannah Ely. He has performed Purcell songs with Hirono Tozaki, harpsichord, in Shizuoka, Japan and Purcell, Lawes and Blow with Aileen Henry, baroque harp, at The Music Room, Mayfair. Guy is a member of Damask Vocal Quartet performing the 19th- and 20th-century chamber repertoire as well as commissioning new works for vocal quartet. He has recorded Scarlatti and Handel on the Avie label, Charpentier, Couperin, Blow and Mozart for Novum and Gabriel Jackson Passion for Delphian.

 

Guy was a chorister and later a choral scholar at New College, Oxford where he gained a first-class degree in Music. In 2013 he became the inaugural recipient of the American Bach Soloists’ Jeffrey Thomas Award and was a Rising Star of the Enlightenment.

 

His recent engagements include débuts with The Mozartists, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Britten Sinfonia; a European tour of Bach Christmas Oratorio with the OAE and Masaaki Suzuki, Bach with Collegium Vocale Gent and Philippe Herreweghe, and Mozart with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic. Amongst his plans are recitals of Vaughan Williams, Britten and Gurney with George Ireland, piano, recordings of Bach, Handel, Clérambault and Stravinsky and his opera début as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni.