Edward Grint

Engagements in 2021/2022 of British bass Edward Grint include Was frag ich nach der Welt with Theater Heidelberg for the Schwetzingen Winter Festival, a tour of Book 6 of Gesualdo’s madrigals with Les Arts Florissants, performances of Book 5 of Gesualdo’s madrigals with Collegium Vocale Gent, POLYPHEMUS in Handel’s Acis and Galatea with Irish Baroque Orchestra, and the Early Music  Company at the Buxton Festival, and performances of Handel’s Messiah for the London Handel Festival. 

Past concert projects included concerts with Les Arts Florissants on tour, Acis & Galatea and Acteon with the Early Opera Company, Messiah with the Irish Baroque Orchestra and The Hanover Band, a programme of Baroque music at the Wigmore Hall for La Nuova Musica, Missa Solemnis with the  Oxford Bach Choir, St John Passion with Les Musiciens du Louvre in Gdansk and Aix-en-Provence  and JUPITER Castor et Pollux for the Early Opera Company at the Opéra de Tours. 

Important past operatic engagements have included POLYPHEMUS Acis and Galatea Opéra de  Avignon, ARCAS Iphigenie en Aulide Theater an der Wien, ADONIS Venus and Adonis, AENEAS Dido and Aeneas Innsbruck Festival, FATHER AKITA in Neige by Catherine Kontz Grand Théâtre de  Luxembourg and TEOBALDO Faramondo by Handel Göttingen Händel Festival.  

Edward Grint is a sought-after concert performer of the baroque repertoire and works with leading orchestras and ensembles such as The King’s Consort, London Mozart Players, Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, City of London  Sinfonia, Royal Choral Society, City of London Choir, Gabrieli consort, and Dunedin Consort. Venues have included Salzburger Festspiele, Cadogan Hall, Halle Händel-Festspiele and Three Choirs festival.  

Edward studied at King’s College, Cambridge and at the Royal College of Music. He is a prizewinner of the Cesti Competition Innsbruck and the London Handel Competition and won the Clermont Ferrand competition in France.