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Northern Irish Tenor Michael Bell is a recent graduate of the Royal College of Music and the University of Cambridge. Michael has already appeared with major companies in the UK and Ireland, including Irish National Opera, Garsington Opera and Wexford Festival Opera. He has also recently performed with the Lithuanian State Orchestra, the Royal Swedish Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Royal Northern Sinfonia.

This season Michael returns to INO and Garsington and makes his debut with Waterperry Opera. He will give a recital of Irish songs in NI Opera’s Salon Series, sing the role of St John in Elgar’s the Apostles for the final night of the Three Choirs Festival and give recitals at the Wigmore Hall in London and the Salle Cortot in Paris.

Michael is a Samling Artist, a member of the Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange and a Musician’s Company Young Artist.

Academy 2024/2025

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Kathleen Nic Dhiarmada

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David Kennedy

Baritone

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Anna Helena Maclachlan

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Ioana Constantin Pipelea

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Maria Matthews

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Laura Aherne

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Rory Lynch

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Paolo Nevi

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Frasier Hickland

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Marta Pluda

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Rebecca Warren

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Aoife Moran

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Deirdre Arratoon

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Eoin Foran

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Ami Hewitt

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Emily Hogarty

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Corina Ignat

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William Kyle

Baritone

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Peter Lidbetter

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Sarah Luttrell

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Hannah O’Brien

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Leah Redmond

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