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Colin Murray

Primary Skill:

Baritone

Nationality:

British

Country:

United Kingdom

Languages (fluent):

English

Opera

El Dancaire
Carmen (Bizet)
Scottish Opera
2023
Various Solo roles
Opera Highlights (Various)
Scottish Opera
2023
Starvelling/ Moon
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Britten)
Scottish Opera
2022
Masetto
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Scottish Opera
2022
Maestro
Ainadamar (Golijov)
Scottish Opera
2022
Yushko Velebin
Ivan the Terrible (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Grange Park
2021
Sergente dei Doganieri
La Boheme (Puccini)
Grange Park
2021
Flemish Deputy
Don Carlo (Verdi)
Grange Park Opera Festival
2019
Kaiser Uberall
Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Ullman)
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
2018
Harry Easter
Street Scene (Weill)
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
2018

Operetta/G&S

Phantis
Utopia Ltd (Gilbert and Sullivan)
Scottish Opera
2021
Antonio / Annibale
The Gondoliers (Gilbert and Sullivan)
Scottish Opera
2021

Art Song

Baritone Soloist
A shropshire Lad (Butterworth)
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
2022

Oratorio/Concerts

Soloist
Belshazzar's Feast (Walton)
City of Glasgow Chorus
2018
Priest/Angel of the Agony
Dream of Gerontius (Elgar)
City of Glasgow Chorus
2018

Covered Covered & Performed Scenes Premiere of New Work Concert COVID-cancelled

Competitions

Governor's recital prize for chamber music (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) (2017)

MMus (opera)
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
2016–2018
MMus (Vocal Performance)
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
2014–2016

Colin Murray is a Glasgow based baritone and graduate of the Alexander Gibson Opera School at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where he also attained a Bachelor of Music degree and a Masters in Vocal Performance. He was an Emerging Artist at Scottish Opera in the 22/23 season.

Colin made his main stage debut with Scottish Opera in the role of Masetto in Don Giovanni and subsequently performed the role of Dancaire in Bizet’s Carmen and Maestro in the UK premiere of Golijov’s Ainadamar. He has also covered on Scottish Opera’s productions of G&S’s The Gondoliers, Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Candide covering Antonio, Starveling and Maximilian / Captain respectively. In Spring ’23 he was part of the Scottish Opera ‘Opera Highlights’ tour, delivering a fully staged show of Opera scenes to communities across the country. Colin also made his role debut at the Grange Park Opera Festival singing the role of Yushko Velebin in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Ivan the Terrible. His previous roles include: Kaiser Uberall Kaiser Von Atlantis, Don Alfonso Cosi Fan Tutte, Father Hansel und Gretel and principal roles in all five of Rossini’s Venetian One Act Operas, and covering Belcore in L’elisir d’amore at the inaugural New Generation Festival in Florence.

Colin is an in-demand concert soloist and award-winning ensemble singer. An alumnus of the National Youth Choir of Scotland and a former choral scholar at Paisley Abbey.


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