Stephen Varcoe

Baritone

Stephen Varcoe is one of Britain’s most distinguished baritones and has made about 150 recordings of baroque, classical and 20th Century repertoire as well as several acclaimed recital discs, from the romantic and sensuous French songs of Hahn, Chabrier and Fauré with Graham Johnson to the quintessentially English Finzi, Gurney, Parry, Stanford and Armstrong Gibbs with Clifford Benson and Roger Vignoles.

On the concert platform, in a career spanning more than three decades, Stephen has appeared with orchestras all over the world. Highlights include Stravinsky with Robert Craft and Rozhdestvensky, Holst with Hickox, C P E Bach with Christie, Bach with Rifkin, Haydn with Brüggen, Handel with Minkowski and Fauré with Tortelier. He has regularly appeared in recital with some of our finest accompanists, particularly Graham Johnson, Iain Burnside, Julius Drake and Roger Vignoles.

His operatic appearances have taken him to Antwerp, Lisbon, Aix, Lyon, Drottningholm and Japan. Stephen was a member of the original cast for Jonathan Miller’s ground-breaking staging of Bach’s St Matthew Passion and its subsequent television production.

Representation: Worldwide