Julian Podger

{{Short description|English tenor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Julian Podger | image = | alt = | birth_date = 1966 | birth_place = England | death_date =  | death_place = | education = Trinity College, Cambridge | occupation = {{plainlist| * Tenor * Conductor }} }}

'''Julian Podger''' (born 1966) is an English tenor who has appeared mostly in concert in historically informed performance. He took part in the 2000 Bach Cantata Pilgrimage. He also sings in vocal ensembles, and directs his own ensemble, Trinity Baroque.

== Life and career == Born in England, Podger grew up in Kassel, Hesse, Germany. His sister, Rachel Podger, is an acclaimed violinist.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-02-20|title=Rachel Podger to Lead Early-Music Ensemble|url=http://journal.juilliard.edu/journal/1503/rachel-podger-interview|access-date=2022-02-15|website=The Juilliard School|language=en}}</ref> He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge.<ref name="Hypperion" /> He has sung with notable vocal ensembles such as Gothic Voices, a group for medieval music, and The Harp Consort. He founded his own ensemble Trinity Baroque while still studying in Cambridge.<ref name="Hypperion" />

On 10 August 1997, he appeared as a soloist at The Proms with the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner, performing vocal works by Schubert and Beethoven.<ref name="BBC" /> Podger took part, as a soloist and member of the Monteverdi Choir, in the 2000 Bach Cantata Pilgrimage by Gardiner.<ref name="BCW" /> He sang the role of the Evangelist in Bach's ''St John Passion'' and ''St Matthew Passion'' several times.<ref name="Hypperion" /> In 1998, he recorded the title role in Handel's last oratorio ''Jephtha'' with the Maulbronner Kammerchor conducted by Jürgen Budday, alongside Emma Kirkby as Iphis and Melinda Paulsen as Storge.<ref name="Hugill" /> A reviewer noted his "well phrased and beautifully rounded performance" but missed the dark emotions of the character.

In 2010, he recorded an album ''Music for the Peace of Utrecht'' with Jos van Veldhoven and the Netherlands Bach Society, alongside Nicki Kennedy, William Towers, Wolfram Lattke and Peter Harvey, combining Handel's ''Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate'', HWV 279, and William Croft's ''Ode for the Peace of Utrecht'' (With Noise of Cannon),<ref name="Gramophone" /><ref name="Ashley" /> which was recorded for the first time.<ref name="Bachvereniging" />

== References == <references>

<ref name="Ashley">{{cite news | last = Ashley | first = Tim | url = https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jul/08/handel-croft-music-peace-of-utrecht | title = Handel; Croft: Music for the Peace of Utrecht | date = 8 July 2010 | newspaper = The Guardian | accessdate = 23 February 2018 }}</ref>

<ref name="Hugill">{{cite web | last = Hugill | first = Robert | url = http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/Dec06/Handel_Jephtha_LC11277.htm | title = George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) / Jephtha | website = musicweb-international.com | accessdate = 2 March 2018 }}</ref>

<ref name="BBC">{{cite web | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/b0b1d105-2efb-4229-a06e-7cd446289c1d | title = Julian Podger | website = BBC | accessdate = 23 February 2018 }}</ref>

<ref name="BCW">{{cite web | url = http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Podger-Julian.htm | title = Julian Podger (Tenor, Choral Conductor) | website = Bach Cantatas Website | accessdate = 23 February 2018 }}</ref>

<ref name="Gramophone">{{cite journal | url = https://www.gramophone.co.uk/editorial/handels-utrecht-te-deum-hwv278 | title = Music for the Peace of Utrecht | journal = Gramophone | accessdate = 23 February 2018 }}</ref>

<ref name="Hypperion">{{cite web | url = https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/a.asp?a=A1179 | title = Julian Podger (tenor) | website = Hyperion | accessdate = 23 February 2018 }}</ref>

<ref name="Bachvereniging">{{cite web | url = https://www.bachvereniging.nl/nl/page/390 | title = Music for the Peace of Utrecht | website = Nederlandse Bachvereniging | accessdate = 23 February 2018 }}</ref>

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== External links == * {{discogs artist}} * {{allMusic|artist|mn0002185147}} * [http://www.gothicvoices.co.uk/julian-podger/ Julian Podger] Gothic Voices

{{DEFAULTSORT:Podger, Julian}} Category:Living people Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Category:English performers of early music Category:English tenors Category:English expatriates in Germany Category:1966 births