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The English baritone, Charlie Baigent, sang with many Oxford college choirs, National Youth Choir, National Youth Chamber Choir, and the Oxford Bach Soloists (Director: Tom Hammond-Davies), as well as touring Mexico with Schola Cantorum of Oxford and taking part in The Sixteen's young artists’ programme, Genesis Sixteen. In June 2019, he graduated with the Provost’s Prize from King's College, Cambridge, where had been choral scholar reading Chemical Engineering (He is the first Choral Scholar to read Chemical Engineering, and in fact, the first studying engineering or experimental sciences of any kind). He performed many solos with King's College Choir Cambridge, including for the live broadcast of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, and at the Concertgebouw and Sydney Opera house.
Charlie Baigent performed the Maurice Duruflé, Gabriel Fauré and Johannes Brahms Requiems as guest soloist with the CUMS chorus alumni in King’s Chapel. In March 2019, he won the Clare College Song Competition, and performed his debut London recital at St Martin-in-the-Fields which was the prize for the competition. He recently performed the role of Figaro in a contemporary reworking of W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (November 2019), and covered Leporello in Oxford Alternative Orchestra’s production of W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni (January 2020).
Charlie Baigent studies singing with Russell Smythe and has had consultations with Christopher Purves, Roderick Williams, James Gilchrist, Eamonn Dougan, and Norbert Meyn. He is currently a lay clerk at Magdalen College, Oxford, and is a scholar with the Oxford Bach Soloists. Since 2021, he continues his studies at the Royal College of Music in London. |
