Harry Bicket
Harpsichordist, Conductor
1961 –
Who is Harry Bicket?
Harry Bicket is a British conductor, harpsichordist and organist. He is particularly associated with the baroque and classical repertoire.
Bicket was educated at Radley College, Christ Church, Oxford, where he was organ scholar, and the Royal College of Music. Before Oxford he was organ scholar at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and afterwards he was sub-organist at Westminster Abbey, during which time he performed at the wedding of Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew.
As a conductor, Bicket became known when he stood in as a replacement to conduct Peter Sellars' production of Handel's opera Theodora with Dawn Upshaw, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and David Daniels, at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1996. In 2003, Bicket made his Covent Garden debut conducting Handel's Orlando with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. In 2004, Bicket first guest-conducted at the Metropolitan Opera in a production of Rodelinda with Renée Fleming.
In October 2006, Bicket was named music director of The English Concert, and formally assumed the post in September 2007, his first orchestral directorship. He first worked with The English Concert as a harpsichordist in 1984. Bicket has conducted commercial recordings with The English Concert for harmonia mundi.
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- Born
- 1961
Liverpool - Spouses
- Children
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Christ Church, Oxford
- Royal College of Music
- Radley College
- Lived in
- Liverpool
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on July 23, 2013
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