Robert Macdonald

Robert Macdonald

Robert Macdonald began his musical career as a chorister at Hereford Cathedral and then as a choral scholar at Christ Church, Oxford where he read biochemistry and music. After a brief period of study at the Royal Academy of Music, Robert has developed a busy and varied career as both a soloist and as a consort singer. In the latter capacity he sings with most of the major period vocal ensembles of this country and is a founder member of two of the younger Gramophone Award-winning vocal groups to have emerged from Oxford in recent years: namely, The Cardinall’s Musick and The Clerks’ Group, whilst as a soloist he has sung with The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall; with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner and with the choir of St Paul’s Cathedral, London. His operatic roles include The Abbot in Britten’s Curlew River, Il Tempo in Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno de Ulysse and The Commendatore in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. He was the soloist in the TONUS PEREGRINUS recording of Arvo Pärt's Passio.