Michael Bell

Northern Irish Tenor Michael Bell is currently studying at the Royal College of Music with Russell Smythe having previously held a choral scholarship at St. John’s College, Cambridge. He has a wide concert repertoire and has evangelised Bach’s St. John Passion and Christmas Oratorio. Also a keen recitalist, he has sung at the Lewes Festival of Song, the London Song Festival and the Drogheda Classical Music Festival. Michael’s operatic roles have included Tamino, Nemorino and the Madwoman, a role he sang in the Moscow premiere of Curlew River.

Michael’s upcoming engagements include Bach, Finzi and MacMillan at the St Endellion Easter Festival, the Witch in the RCM’s Hänsel und Gretel and der Sänger in Schreker’s Flammen with the Lithuania State Orchestra.