CCMS • Ian Bostridge and Vadym Kholodenko

Ian Bostridgeʼs international recital career takes him to the foremost concert halls of Europe, Southeast Asia, and North America. His operatic appearances have included Aschenbach (Death in Venice) for the Deutsche Oper, Peter Quint (The Turn of the Screw) for the Teatro alla Scala, Handel’s Jeptha for Opéra National de Paris, Nerone (LʼIncoronazione di Poppea) and Tom Rakewell for the Bayerische Staatsoper, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) for the Wiener Staatsoper, Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) and Jupiter (Semele) for the English National Opera and Caliban (The Tempest) for the Royal Opera House.

Ian appears this season as Renaud (Armide) for Opéra Comique and undertakes a tour of St Matthew Passion with Les Talens Lyriques, both conducted by C. Rousset. His multitude of concert performances include Zender’s Winterreise with Pappano at La Monnaie, War Requiem with San Francisco Symphony conducted by P. Jordan and with Sinfonica di Milano under the baton of R. Trevino; Les Illuminations at the MITO festival, Des Knaben Wunderhorn for the Sinfonica di Milano and and M. Mariotti, a performance of Mustonen’s Taivaanvalot with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra and the composer himself, Les nuits dʼété with Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and T. Zehetmair, Das Paradies und das Peri with Capella Cracoviensis and J. T. Adamus, Winterreise with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and V. Kholodenko, Britten Serenade with the Hallé Orchestra and City of Birmingham Orchestra, Folly of Desire with Brad Mehldau at the Wiener Konzerthaus and Bozar, performances of English chamber music at the Muziekcentrum Biljoke and Schleswig-Holstein Musikfest with Oxalys, a performance at Wigmore with Capella Neapolitana, as well as performances with the Oberon Trio. He also undertakes a Korean recital tour of Winterreise with Julius Drake, and a European concert tour with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Additionally, Ian sings recitals with Magnus Svensson at the Stockholm Concert Hall, and long-time collaborators Saskia Giorgini at the Concertgebouw and Sociedad Filarmonica de Zaragoza and Julius Drake at the Pierre Boulez Saal and Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical in Madrid.

His many recordings have won all the major international record prizes and been nominated for 15 Grammys. His recording for Pentatone of Schubert’s Winterreise with Thomas Adès won the Vocal Recording of the Year 2020 in the International Classical Music Awards. Recent recordings include Respighi Songs and Die schöne Mullerin with Saskia Giorgini for Pentatone, Shakespeare songs (Grammy Award, 2017) and Requiem: The Pity of War with Pappano for Warner Classics.

His book Schubertʼs Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession was published by Faber and Faber in the UK and Knopf in the USA in 2014. He was made a CBE in the 2004 New Year’s Honours.