After auditions in November, The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir has taken in two new tenors.
Here you can get to know Kevin Skelton.
Kevin Skelton has a multifaceted career as a performer, director, choreographer, teacher, and scholar. Equally at home on the concert and operatic stage, Kevin specializes in seventeenth-century music, the Bach Evangelist roles, and experimental music theatre.
Most music making is done collaboratively, especially as a singer, and I have always enjoyed how vocal ensembles create a wonderful atmosphere that fuses the social, musical, personal, and professional.
Kevin has performed with some of the world’s finest early music ensembles including Collegium Vocale Gent, L’Arpeggiata, and Concerto Palatino and in numerous theatres and festivals throughout the world including Teatro La Fenice, La Monnaie, Aix-en-Provence, Opéra Royal de Versailles, and the early music festivals in Boston and Utrecht.
His first meeting with the Norwegian Soloists' Choir was as a deputy some years ago:
I always found projects with the group inspiring and stimulating, and the people some of the friendliest and most encouraging I have encountered in my career. It is really an honour to be joining the group again.
In recent years Kevin has begun a new initiative exploring the possibilities of integrating the performing arts. His unique facility combining voice and movement has been showcased in productions of the Netherlands Reisopera, Veenfabriek, Zilbersee, Opera Atelier, Sasha Waltz & Guests, the Dutch breakdance company ISH and the Japanese theatre company SPAC. Kevin has produced numerous videos and live performances under the auspices of his own company ātmā having performed at the Operadagen Rotterdam, Theater aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, and Festival Les Nuits de Septembre (Festival de Wallonie).