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Neil started singing at an early age enjoying a musical family
background in Hastings. He has performed throughout UK and in Europe and is proving to be a very popular artist specialising
in serenading audiences at many diverse events with a mixture of classical italian songs, operatic arias and popular songs.
His repertoire ranges from Italian romantic songs, operatic arias and arie antiche to Gershwin, Cole Porter, popular music
theatre songs, “Rat Pack” and “Crooner” songs. Neil's lyric tenor vocal skills have
been recognised by a number of opera companies including London Opera Players, Candlelight Opera, Opera Live, Opera Box, London
Opera Productions, Operatique, City of Birmingham Opera, Chorleywood Opera, Opera School Wales and St.Albans Chamber Opera.
He has appeared as Ferrando in 'Cosi Fan Tutte' (Mozart) including a recent tour to France and in the
UK, Leicester in Maria Stuarda (Donizetti), Spoletta in Tosca (Puccini), Borsa in Rigoletto (Verdi), Gastone in 'La Traviata'
(Verdi), Remendado in 'Carmen'( Bizet), The Squire in ‘Thomas & Sally’ (Arne), Capt. Silvio in 'Dr
Miracle' (Bizet), King Caspar in 'Amahl and the Night Visitors' (Menotti) and Tamino in 'The Magic Flute’
(Mozart). Operettas include Eisenstein in 'Die Fledermaus' (Strauss).
Neil's concert work has included working with London Opera Productions, Candlelight Opera, Qopera and Opera
Live! in such venues as Polesden Lacey NT, Loseley House, Penshurst Place, Victoria Embankment Gardens, Covent Garden Piazza
and Hitchin Priory.
Neil has also performed as a tenor in concert
with Guitarists Carlos Bonell, Timothy Walker and Amanda Cook covering a wide range of repertoire from English Lute song to
Spanish and South American songs. He has performed with the Dillington Festival guitar ensemble in songs by Villa Lobos at
the Dillington Guitar Festival, and at the Purcell rooms on the South Bank. Neil studied and is currently coached by Marie
Mclaughlin. He has also worked with a number of eminent musicians such as Adrian Thompson, Sue McCulloch, Peter Crockford,
John Mitchinson, Nina Walker, Carlos Bonell, Tim Walker and Eleftheria Kotzia.
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