IanBostridge CBE

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Nicholas Moloney

Nicholas Moloney

Senior Artist Manager
Megan Steller

Megan Steller

Associate Artist Manager

Representation

General management with Askonas Holt

Partner managers:
Italy: Mario Ingrassia
Switzerland: Sarperi Artists Management (Aya Yoshigoe)
North America: Étude Arts (Bill Palant)

About Ian

Ian Bostridge CBE’s extraordinary international career has taken him to the foremost concert halls, orchestras and opera houses in the world. Synonymous with the works of Schubert and Britten, his recital career has taken him to the Salzburg, Edinburgh, Munich, Vienna, Aldeburgh, and Schwarzenberg Schubertiade festivals and to the main stages of Carnegie Hall, the Bayerische Staatsoper, La Monnaie and Teatro alla Scala. In opera, Ian has received particular praise for his interpretation of Aschenbach (Death in Venice) at the Deutsche Oper and Peter Quint (The Turn of the Screw) for Teatro alla Scala. His recordings have won all the major international record prizes and have been nominated for 15 Grammys.

Highlights of the 24/25 season include a return to the Concertgebouw, a tour across mainland China alongside conductor Daniel Harding, recitals with Piotr Andreweski in Paris and Krakow, and a US tour with Julius Drake taking in the 92nd Street Y, Montreal’s Bourgie Hall and Baltimore’s Shriver Hall. The season will also see Ian continue his artistic collaboration with director Deborah Warner in staged performances of Winterreise at the Ustinov Studio at Theatre Royal Bath. Ian will revisit beloved concert repertoire including Bach’s St Matthew Passion and Britten’s War Requiem on multiple stages across Europeand the US.

Ian has held artistic residencies at the Vienna Konzerthaus and Schwarzenberg Schubertiade, the Barbican, the Luxembourg Philharmonie, the Wigmore Hall and Hamburg Laeiszhalle. Ian has also participated in a Carte-Blanche series with Thomas Quasthoff at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, a Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall, and the inaugural Artistic Residency with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. Ian has worked with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Chicago, Boston, London and BBC Symphony orchestras, the London, New York, Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras, the Rotterdam Philharmonisch Orkest, Accademia di Santa Cecilia and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Andrew Davis, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Antonio Pappano, Riccardo Muti, Mstislav Rostropovich, Daniel Barenboim, Daniel Harding and Donald Runnicles.

A prolific recording artist, Ian’s recent Pentatone recording of Schubert’s Winterreise with Thomas Adès won the Vocal Recording of the Year 2020 in the International Classical Music Awards. Other recordings include Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with Graham Johnson (Gramophone Award 1996), Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Progress with Sir John Eliot Gardiner (Grammy Award, 1999), and Belmonte Die Entführung aus dem Serail with William Christie.

An internationally celebrated author and academic, Ian Bostridge’s Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession was published by Faber and Faber in the UK and Knopf in the USA in 2014, and his most recent book Song and Self was published in 2023. He was made a CBE in the 2004 New Year’s Honours.

Ian is based in London

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Representation

General management with Askonas Holt

Partner managers:
Italy: Mario Ingrassia
Switzerland: Sarperi Artists Management (Aya Yoshigoe)
North America: Étude Arts (Bill Palant)

Season Highlights

Jan 2023
Sapporo Concert Hall; Suntory Hall, Tokyo
Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31 Bruckner Symphony No.6 Matthias Bamert (conductor) Ian Bostridge (tenor) Alessio Allegrini (horn) Sapporo Symphony Orchestra
May 2023
Wigmore Hall, London
Works by Wolf & Schubert Ian Bostridge (tenor) Imogen Cooper (piano)
Oct 2023
Église Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, Ottawa; Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
Schubert Winterreise Ian Bostridge (tenor) Wenwen Du (piano)

Selected Repertoire

Adams arr. DebussyLe Livre de Baudelaire
BarberKnoxville Summer of 1915, Op. 24
BerliozLes nuits d'été
BrittenNocturne   •   Les Illuminations   •   Serenade   •   Our Hunting Fathers   •   Quatres Chansons Francaises   •   Folk Songs
FinziDies Natalis Cantata
G. F. HandelSilete Venti
H. W. HenzeKammermusik 1958   •   Whispers From Heavenly Death
H. W. Henze arr. WagnerWesendonck Lieder
J. S. BachSt Matthew Passion   •   St John Passion   •   Ich habe genug (incl. version for flute)
LutoslawskiParoles Tissées
MahlerDes Knaben Wunderhorn   •   Early Wunderhorn Songs (arr. David & Colin Matthews)   •   Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen   •   Rückert Lieder
MozartConcert Arias
PurcellSongs arr. for string orchestra
RavelShéhérazade
RespighiDeità Silvane
SchubertOrchestrated Songs
StravinskyOedipus Rex
SzymanowskiDes Hafis Liebeslieder, op.26
Vaughan WilliamsOn Wenlock Edge
WagnerWesendonck Lieder
WolfOrchestrated Songs
Zender arr. SchubertWinterreise

News

Press

  • Schubert - Ian Bostridge & Steven Osborne

    Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
    Aug 2024
    • This duo proved a well-matched pair, two intelligent minds unafraid to open up to wilder expressive opportunities, as in Osborne’s thundering final chord of In Der Ferne, or the weight-of-the-world anguish in Bostridge’s Der Atlas.

    • ...Bostridge was so skilled at entering into every song’s little universe. Every consonant mattered, every musical phrase was carefully considered so as to convey meaning and enrich the listener’s understanding... He’s now more associated with characters of age and experience, even cynicism, but he showed such uncanny ability to enter into the spirit of Schubert’s love songs that you never for a second questioned it.

    • Tenor, Ian Bostridge, one of the foremost living interpreters of Schubert, simply dives into the emotions of each song. The non-sequential emotional subtexts of each are no barrier... Bostridge has an excellent voice for Schubert’s melodic adventures, pure and powerful, and capable of great meaning.

    • From the calm of Liebesbotschaft to the literary cuckoo in the nest – the breezy closing setting of Seidl’s Die Taubenpost – it was the sense of unwavering conviction that won the day.