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Musical Director - Neil Mackenzie

Neil MacKenzie was born in Glasgow. He studied at Clare College, Cambridge,

making his solo debut on London's South Bank with Benjamin Britten's

Winter Words while still an undergraduate. He has a busy and varied concert

schedule, performing regularly in all the major London venues and throughout

the UK. Internationally, he has sung in Aix-en-Provence, Istanbul, Granada and in

North and South America. He also performs frequently at the Proms and has

appeared at the Aldeburgh, Almeida and Covent Garden Festivals.

Neil MacKenzie is equally at home in contemporary and standard repertoire.

Among many first performances of works which he has given are included

Naji Hakim's Saul of Tarsus, Ron Corp's Laudamus and Elis Pehkonen's

The First Coming. He has also had a song-cycle written for him by prize-winning

composer Hugh Collins-Rice: The Pentecost Castle.

Neil is often to be heard on Radio 3, both as a soloist and with the BBC Singers. Most recently, he was the

narrator in Heiner Goebbles's La Jalousie, in one of the series of Hear and Now programmes with the

chamber ensemble Lontano, as well as taking a role in Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades in a concert

performance in Manchester with the BBC Philharmonic under Gian-Andrea Noseda. He has worked regularly

with Boulez, Berio, Tortelier, Atherton, Rattle, Bolton, Eliot Gardiner, Glover and Christophers.

In the Baroque field, Neil received critical acclaim as a soloist in the recording of Monteverdi's Vespers, with

The Sixteen. Other solos on disc include Israel in Egypt, Carl Rutti's Magnificat and Lili Boulanger's

Au fond de l'Abime, with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier.

Neil runs an annual choral workshop - Mattefer Music Week in Southern France Click here for more details