Musical Director

Michael Roderick Earle began singing as a chorister in Winchester Cathedral before reading music and singing as a Choral Scholar in the renowned St. John’s College Choir, Cambridge under George Guest.

He went on to sing with the BBC Singers, the London Sinfonietta and in the Monteverdi Choir before starting a career in opera. He was a principal baritone with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden for twenty-one years singing over sixty solo roles and has sung in opera and concerts all over the world.

In autumn 2010 Roderick created the role of King Lear in Alexander Goehr's Promised End at the Royal Opera House and in spring 2011 at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires he sang Nekrotzar in Ligeti's Grand Macabre. He is also a part-time singing professor at The Royal College of Music, London.