Barnaby Smith
Barnaby Smith is artistic director of the vocal chamber ensemble VOCES8, a countertenor, a conductor, an arranger, and an educator as well. His musical interests range from Renaissance music to contemporary pop.
Smith began his musical career as a chorister at Westminster Abbey, where he often appeared as a treble soloist; he performed with the group at the BBC Proms and other nationally prominent events. He went on to Bedford School, where he was a music scholar (performing at school events in return for reduced tuition), and then to a gap year singing with the Winchester Cathedral Choir, performing as a soloist with the Wayneflete Signers, and joining the staff of the Pilgrims' School. Smith earned a Specialist Early Music Performance degree at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where he studied voice with countertenor Andreas Scholl and bass Ulrich Messthaler. He also sang in the Royal School of Church Music's Millennium Youth Choir. A stint in the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme helped launch his varied career, conducting the Voces Cantabiles choir and making solo appearances in Handel's Messiah, HWV 56, Bach's St. John Passion, BWV 245, and a semi-staged production of Handel's dramatic oratorio Saul, HWV 53. Conducting Voces Cantabiles, Smith made his recording debut on the Naxos label in 2007 with an album of works by Robert Parsons.
In 2003, Smith and his brother Paul Smith founded VOCES8. The group took shape as friends from the Millennium Youth Choir continued to gather and sing after they aged out of the group; they traveled to Switzerland on a lark for a competition and ended up winning. VOCES8 is unusual in its composition, with six male singers, including two countertenors (Barnaby Smith being one) and two women. VOCES8 has performed around Britain, the U.S., and continental Europe. Smith continues to serve as artistic director. He maintains his solo career and has performed across Britain and in such prestigious international halls as the Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall. He has led major orchestras as a conductor, including the Philharmonia Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, and the London Philharmonic. Smith has conducted VOCES8 on some 15 recordings and has appeared as a conductor or countertenor on various other projects. He is also in demand as a choir trainer and educator, having been co-curator of the Master's program in singing at Cambridge University. In 2021, Smith led VOCES8 on the Naxos album Infinity.
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15 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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A Choral Christmas
Voces8, VOCES8 Foundation Choir, VOCES8 Foundation Orchestra, Barnaby Smith
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 3 nov. 2023
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The Lost Birds
Christopher Tin, Voces8, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Barnaby Smith
Classique - Paru chez Universal Music Classics le 30 sept. 2022
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The Lost Birds: Choral Edition (Choral Edition)
Christopher Tin, Voces8, Barnaby Smith
Classique - Paru chez Universal Music Classics le 22 sept. 2023
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Barnaby Smith: Handel
Barnaby Smith, The Illyria Consort
Musique vocale (profane et sacrée) - Paru chez VOCES8 Records le 13 août 2021
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Barnaby Smith: Bach
Barnaby Smith, The Illyria Consort
Classique - Paru chez VOCES8 Records le 17 févr. 2023
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PARSONS, R.: First Great Service / Responds for the Dead
Voces Cantabiles, Barnaby Smith
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 11 déc. 2007
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Davis: Magnificat: IV. Deposuit
Voces8, VOCES8 Foundation Choir, VOCES8 Foundation Orchestra, Barnaby Smith
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 29 sept. 2023
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Serse: Ombra Mai Fù (Largo)
Barnaby Smith, The Illyria Consort
Opéra - Paru chez VOCES8 Records le 23 juil. 2021
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Jephtha, HWV 70: These Labours Past
Barnaby Smith, The Illyria Consort, Mary Bevan
Musique vocale (profane et sacrée) - Paru chez VOCES8 Records le 24 sept. 2021
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Rinaldo, HWV 7: Venti, turbini, prestate
Barnaby Smith, The Illyria Consort
Musique vocale (profane et sacrée) - Paru chez VOCES8 Records le 6 août 2021
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Oster-Oratorium, BWV 249: IX. Aria, Saget, saget mir geschwinde
Barnaby Smith, The Illyria Consort
Classique - Paru chez VOCES8 Records le 27 janv. 2023
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A Choral Christmas
Voces8, VOCES8 Foundation Choir, VOCES8 Foundation Orchestra, Barnaby Smith
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 3 nov. 2023
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Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV 248: XIX. Aria, Schlafe, mein Liebster, genieße der Ruh
Barnaby Smith, The Illyria Consort
Classique - Paru chez VOCES8 Records le 9 déc. 2022
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Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041
Thomas Gould, The Senesino Players, Barnaby Smith
Classique - Paru chez VCM Records le 22 févr. 2019
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