Colin Campbell, Baritone, studied at the Royal Northern College of Music. He has appeared as a concert soloist throughout the UK, and also in numerous festivals on the continent, the U.S.A. and the Far East. His discography includes recordings on the Hyperion, Decca, Guild, Naxos, Philips and Deutsche Grammaphon labels.

Colin’s operatic rôles include Escamillo, Carmen, Tarquinius, Rape of Lucretia, Marcello, La Bohème, Sharpless, Madame Butterfly and Figaro, Il Barbiere for Opera East, Papageno, Magic Flute and Silvio, I Pagliacci, Surrey Opera, Apollo, Alceste and Berardo, Riccardo Primo, (Handel), English Bach Festival at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Enrico, Lucia di Lammermoor, English Touring Opera, Malatesta, Don Pasquale, The Father, Hansel and Gretel and Don Alfonso, Così fan Tutte, Opera Brava, Count Almaviva, Marriage of Figaro, and Don Giovanni, Kent Opera Education Programme, Noye, Noye’s Fludde, Finchley Children’s Music Group, Germont, La Traviata, Pavilion Opera and the role of Enrico, Lucia di Lammermoor for New Sussex Opera.

Concert engagements include Cold Genius in Purcell’s King Arthur with the Gabrieli Consort and Players; Tavener’s Apocalypse in Athens with the City of London Sinfonia; the arias in Bach’s St John Passion with Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert; Thea Musgrave’s Wild Winter with the viol consort Fretwork and appearances with The King’s Consort in Purcell programmes at the Wigmore Hall and at the BBC Proms. Under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Colin has sung the bass solos in Monteverdi’s Vespers in Cremona and Milan and the Voice of Christ in Tavener’s The World is Burning, recorded by Philips Classics.

He has also performed Messiah in Israel and Poland; Beethoven’s Leonore at the Lincoln Center New York, the Salzburg Festival and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw; Mozart’s Requiem in Santiago de Compostela; Handel’s Atalanta at the Halle Festival; Christus in Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Tampere, Finland; Mendelssohn’s Elijah at the Trondheim Festival, Norway; Brahms’ Requiem at Symphony Hall, Birmingham; Bach’s B Minor Mass in Japan and Korea; Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus in Vilnius, Lithuania with Nicholas McGegan and Telemann, Die Grossmut with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Magdeburg, Germany.

In London he has appeared at the Royal Albert Hall with the Philharmonia Orchestra and King’s College Choir in Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols; at the QEH with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius and at Westminster Cathedral with the Bach Choir and the English Chamber Orchestra in Fauré’s Requiem. He has also performed and recorded the rôles of Saint Denis/La Voix du Christ in Marcel Dupré’s cantata La France au Calvaire to critical acclaim.

Colin created the role of Herod in Nigel Short’s opera The Dream of Herod and subsequently performed the work in Switzerland, Bermuda and the UK.

He has recently performed Don Giovanni, and Germont, Traviata for Opera a la Carte and also revived the role of Herod as well as the role of Renato, Masked Ball for Surrey Opera.