Brian Parsons

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Brian Parsons is a Graduate of the Royal College of Music and the RCM Opera School where he studied with Bernard Roberts and Maria Donska (piano) and Frederick Sharp and Lyndon van der Pump (singing). He has also studied privately and in Masterclasses with Eric Vietheer, Eugenie Triguez, Geoffrey Parsons, Gerhardt Husch, Nadia Boulanger, Pierre Bernac, David Pollard and Sir Peter Pears. He was a Finalist in the Richard Tauber Competition, the Royal Overseas League Competition and the National Federation of Music Societies Award for Male Singers. Brian has sung in recital and concerts in festivals both at home and abroad including the Spitalfields, Norwich, Camden, Cuenca, Maggio Musicale and Athens Festivals with conductors including Jean-Claude Malgoire, Christoph Rousset, David Roblou, William Christie and Frantisek Vajnar. He has broadcast for the BBC and French Radio and Television and featured as soloist on many recordings including the cantatas of Bernier and Martinu as well as contemporary works by Berio, Henze and Holliger. Equally at home on the operatic stage, Brian has sung for the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, English National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Wexford Festival Opera, Aix en Provence Festival Opera, Opera 80 (now English Touring Opera) and more recently Venetian Opera and Bampton Classical Opera. He teaches at an international level and is currently Professor of Singing at both the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse, Lyon. Brian has also taught on the Berkshire Choral Union, Summer Music and Seminaire Estival de Musique en Wallonie Summer Schools, and has been a tutor for AIMS since it was founded in 2007 by Neil and Penny Jenkins.