Martyn Hill

Martyn Hill studied voice in Cambridge and London. He started his career in 1967 as a founding member of the Early Music Consort, an ensemble that specialized in medieval and Renaissance music. The 1976 death of another of its founders, David Munrow, meant the end of the Early Music Consort; Hill now focused on Baroque music, also appearing in concert performances of Händel operas. Next, he added Schubert to his repertory. He was successful not only in the UK, but all over Europe and North America.

Only in the mid-1980s, he ventured into staged opera, and sang Idomeneo (in Zürich under Nikolaus Harnoncourt and in Glyndebourne), Tom Rakewell (New Hampshire Opera), Flamand (Capriccio, Metz), Mozart (Mozart i Salieri by Rimskij-Korsakov, London, both Festival and Barbican Hall), Ferrando (Metz), Belmonte (Glyndebourne), Quint (The turn of the screw, Glasgow) or Eumete (Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino).

Reference 1: Kutsch & Riemens; reference 2
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