Martyn Hill BiographyMartyn Hill has a distinguished international career as opera singer, concert and oratorio soloist and recitalist. His wide concert repertoire ranges from
Messiah and the Evangelist in Bach’s
Passions, to Mendelssohn’s
Elijah, Elgar’s
The Dream of Gerontius, Berlioz’s
La damnation de Faust, and the works of Benjamin Britten. Operatic roles include Idomeneo, Alessandro in
II re pastore, Oedipus, Peter Grimes, and Achilles in
King Priam. Sought after as an interpreter of contemporary music his repertoire includes works by Lutoslawski, Holliger, Nono, Birtwistle and Henze.
He created the title rôle in Sandeep Bhagwati’s Ramanujan in Munich and gave the world première of Elliott Carter’s In sleep, in thunder. He has made over a hundred recordings for EMI, Hyperion, Chandos, Harmonia Mundi, Erato Disques, Naxos, Vanguard and Virgin Classics.
August 2004
