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Kieran Rayner

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Kieran is a London-based New Zealand operatic baritone. A Royal College of Music graduate, he recently debuted at the Royal Opera House.
Singer (baritone)
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Kieran Rayner is a London-based New Zealand operatic baritone, recently graduated with an Artist Diploma and a Masters of Performance (Distinction) from the Royal College of Music International Opera School, studying with Russell Smythe. He graduated from the New Zealand School of Music in 2011 with Distinction in a Postgraduate Diploma of Music and a BA in English Literature. He was a Garsington Opera Alvarez Young Artist 2018 & 2019, Verbier Festival Atélier Lyrique Artist 2018, Samling Artist, Britten Pears Young Artist, a Internationale Meistersinger Akademie artist 2017, and a 2012-13 Freemasons Dame Malvina Major Emerging Artist with New Zealand Opera. He is currently supported by an Independent Opera Voice Fellowship, the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation and Help Musicians UK. Since arriving in Britain in late 2014, Kieran has has performed with The Royal Opera House, Garsington Opera, Longborough Festival Opera, English Touring Opera, British Youth Opera, Park Opera, and Saffron Hall, among others. He played eight principal roles in Royal College of Music International Opera School productions, and has sung oratorio solos across the UK. His operatic engagements include core repertoire such as Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Guglielmo in Così Fan Tutte, as well as baroque roles including Melisso in Alcina and Gustavo in Faramondo, and contemporary works like David Sawer’s The Skating Rink for Garsington Opera and Philip Sunderland’s The Glass Knight (world premieres). He has a flair for the comedic (Le Mari in Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus), and dramatic (The Forester in The Cunning Little Vixen, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream). Concert highlights include Hannah Conway’s Dare to Dream at the Royal Albert Hall (world premiere), Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music with John Wilson at Buckingham Palace, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with Vladimir Jurowsky, Bach’s Matthäus-Passion at Southwark Cathedral (singing Christus and Choir I arias), Haydn’s Creation at Chichester Cathedral, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen at the Wellington Opera House NZ, and Gounod’s St Cecilia Mass in Nouméa, New Caledonia. He was a Wigmore Hall International Song Competition semifinalist 2019, won the Garsington Opera Simon Sandbach Award 2019, the Royal Over-Seas League Philip Crawshaw Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Musician from Overseas 2018, the Emmy Destinn Czech song prize 2017, and 2nd prize in both the 2017 Brooks Van-der-Pump and 2016 AESS Patricia Routledge English Song competitions. He has an eclectic range of other skills, from period dance to Shakespearean theatre and modern tap dance. In 2014 he narrated several stories for ‘Shortz: Stories from Kapiti’, an audio collection of New Zealand writing for children.

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Kieran's Reviews

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George B
9 months ago
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5 out of 5

Fantastic opera singer with captivating lyric baritone voice.

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Nate G
10 months ago
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5 out of 5

Thanks for everything. Kieran was amazing.

Reply from Kieran
10 months ago

Cheers Nate, it was a pleasure!

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Classical S
9 years ago

Following on from his fine Forester in British Youth Opera’ s The Cunning Little Vixen, Kieran Rayner made an excellent, funny Von Eisenstein.

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Philip M
9 years ago

Threaded right through it was Kieran Rayner as Figaro who brought enormous presence, energy and maturity to his central role in the plot …his singing effortless and powerful; diction wonderful. He fully occupied this larger-than-life, supremely confident character with apparent ease, zest and enjoyment, connecting directly with the audience, who responded to him with the most warm, loud and energetic applause all the way through.

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