Curriculum Vitae

Colin David Brockie: Bass-baritone

D.O.B: 28th February 1985
Height: 6’ 2”
Nationality: British                                          

Education:  
2009 - 2012:  Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
2002 - 2006:  Grays School of Art, Aberdeen
1996 - 2002:  Ellon Academy, Aberdeenshire

Qualifications:         
Degree: MMus in Solo Performance (Distinction)                                                
PGdip in Solo Performance (Merit)
BA (Hons) Craft & Design

Equity member - since 2014
                            
Current Vocal Tutor:  William Allenby
Previous Vocal Tutors:  
Nicholas Powell, Stuart MacIntyre, RNCM
Ruth Black, Alan Watt, Dr Raimund Herincx, Jean Webster (All North East of Scotland Music School (NESMS), Aberdeen, 2000 - 2009)

Full Roles Performed:
2015

• Mephistopheles - Faust, Gounod - Winterbourne Opera (The Chapel, Salisbury) 

2014

• Dirk/Devil - The Maiden Stone, Stollery - World Premiere, SOUND festival (Bennachie Centre, Inverurie)

2013    

• Notary (Cover) - Don Pasquale, Donzietti - Glyndebourne Opera (Glyndebourne)

2012    

• Un Soldat -  Le Roi Malgré Lui, Chabrier - Wexford Festival Opera (Wexford Opera House)
• Legal Counsellor - Intermezzo, Strauss - Buxton Opera Festival (Buxton Opera House)
• Notary (Cover) - Intermezzo, Strauss - Buxton Opera Festival (Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton)

2011    

• Superintendent Budd - Albert Herring, Britten - RNCM (RNCM Theatre)
• Rodger - A New Brain, Finn - Greenroom Productions (Lemon Tree, Aberdeen)

2010    

• Zuniga – Carmen, Bizet - RNCM (RNCM Theatre)
• Publio – La Clemenza di Tito, Mozart - RNCM (RNCM Theatre)

2009    

• Agamemnon – La Belle Helene, Offenbach - RNCM (RNCM Theatre)
• Lord Evelyn Oakleigh – Anything Goes, Porter - Just Cause Productions (Aberdeen Arts Centre)

2008    

• Joey – Zombie Prom - Just Cause Productions (Aberdeen Arts Centre)
•  Curly – Oklahoma, Rogers and Hammerstein  - Meldrum Musical Society (Meldrum Academy)

2007    

• Pooh-Bah – Hot Mikado, Bell and Bowman - Aberdeen Vocal Ensemble Productions (Aberdeen Arts Centre)
• Ben – The Telephone, Menotti - Cowdray Lunchtime Concert Series (Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen)

2004    

• Sgt Meryll – Yeoman of the Guard , Sullivan - Aberdeen University Gilbert and Sullivan Society (Aberdeen Arts Centre)

2003    

• Jud – Oklahoma, Rogers and Hammerstein - Aberdeen University Treading The Boards Society (Aberdeen Arts Centre)

2000    

• Pirate King – Pirates of Penzance, Sulllivan - Haddo Children's Theatre (Haddo House Theatre)

Choruses:
2016

• Der Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Wagner - Glyndebourne Opera (Glyndebourne)
• Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart - Glyndebourne Opera (Glyndebourne)
• Il Barbiere di Seville, Rossini - Glyndebourne Opera (Glyndebourne  & Royal Albert Hall, London)
• Béatrice et Bénédict, Berlioz - Glyndebourne Opera (Glyndebourne)

2015

• Saul, Handel - Glyndebourne Tour
• Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Mozart - Glyndebourne Tour
• Don Pasquale, Donzietti - Glyndebourne Tour
• Carmen, Bizet - Glyndebourne Opera (Glyndebourne)

2014

• Der Rosenkavalier, Strauss - Glyndebourne Opera (Glyndebourne & Royal Albert Hall, London)
• Billy Budd, Britten - Glyndebourne Opera (Brooklyn Academy Music, New York)

2013   

• Falstaff, Verdi - Glyndebourne Opera (Glyndebourne)
• Don Pasquale, Donzietti - Glyndebourne Opera (Glyndebourne)
• Billy Budd, Britten - Glyndebourne Opera (Glyndebourne & Royal Albert Hall, London)

2012   

• L'arlesiana, Cilea - Wexford Festival Opera Chorus (Wexford Opera House)
• Le Roi Malgré Lui, Chabrier - Wexford Festival Opera Chorus (Wexford Opera House)
• Jephtha, Handel - Buxton Opera Festival Chorus (Buxton Opera House)
• The Maiden in the Tower, Sibelius - Buxton Opera Festival Chorus (Buxton Opera House) 
• Kashchei the Immortal, Rimsky-Korsakov - Buxton Opera Festival Chorus (Buxton Opera House) 

2010    

• Belshazzar, Handel  - RNCM with Manchester Camerata (RNCM Theatre)

2008    

• Date Expectations, Aberdeen Student Show (His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen)

2002    

• La Traviata, Verdi  - Haddo Choral and Operatic Society (Haddo House Theatre)

1997    

• Carmen, Bizet - Haddo Choral and Operatic Society (Haddo House Theatre)

RNCM Opera Scenes:
2012     

• Mephistopheles - Faust, Gounod (Dir: Stefan Janski)

2011     

• Archibaldo - L'amore Dei Tre Re, Montemezzi (Dir: Garth Bardsley)
•  Seneca - L'incoronazione di Poppea, Monteverdi (Dir: Stefan Janski)

2010     

• Arkel – Pelleas et Melisande, Debussy (Dir: Garth Bardsley)
• Pistol – Falstaff, Verdi (Dir: Stefan Janski) 

Solo Oratorio/Concert performance:

• Joshua, Handel (Nottingham)
• Spatzenmasse, Mozart (Buxton)
• Petite Messe Solennelle, Rossini (Kington & Nottingham)
• Joshua, Handel (West Bridgford, Nottingham)
• St John's Passion, Bach (Giggleswick & St Sepulchre-without-Newgate; London)
• Nelson Mass, Haydn (Bakewell)
• Messiah, Handel (Arran, Pateley Bridge, Wetherby)
• Serenade to Music, Vaughan Williams (RNCM Spotlight concert)
• 'Israelitish Messanger' - Samson, Handel - Aberdeen Bach Choir (St Machar’s Cathedral; Old Aberdeen)
• Der Schulmeister - Telemann (Aboyne and Deeside Festival)
• Mass in D, Dvorak -  Buckie Choral Society (Buckie Church, Morayshire)
• Sparrow Mass (Mass in C major), Mozart - (Kings College Chapel; Aberdeen University)
• Eternal Light, Goodall (Scottish Premier performed with NYCoS in St Andrews & Music Hall Aberdeen)
• 'Love bade me welcome' - 5 Mystical Songs, Vaughan Williams - NYCoS (St Andrews)
• Te Deum, Bruckner (Queens Cross Church; Aberdeen)

Choral Works: Performed with the National Youth Choir of Scotland, NYCoS, 2000 – 2010

• Belshazzars Feast, Walton (Jay Pritzker Pavillion, Chicago, con: Carlos Kalmar)
• War Requiem, Britten (Jay Pritzker Pavillion, Chicago, con: Carlos Kalmar)
• We turned on the light, Gough (World Premier, Royal Albert Hall, con: Martyn Brabbins)
• The Armed Man, Jenkins (Glasgow Concert Hall, con: Karl Jenkins)
• When David heard, Whitacre
• Laudate Pueri, Leighton
• 5 Negro Spirituals, Making of the drum, Tippet
• Lux Aeterna, O Magnum Mysterium, Laurisden
• Mass in Time of War, Haydn
• A Burns Sequence, Gardner
• Funeral Ikos, Tavener
• Hymn to St Cecilia, Britten
• Take him, Earth, for cherishing, Howells
• Divo Aloysio Sacrum, Macmillan
• Requiem, Faure
• Gloria, Vivaldi
• Chichester Psalms, Bernstein
• Carmina Burana, Orff (Come and Sing event, Queens Cross Church, Aberdeen)
• Spem in alium, Talis (St Cuthberts, Edinburgh)

Masterclasses:

• Neal Davis (2012)
• James Gilchrist (2012)
• Thomas Hampson (2011)
• Ryland Davies (2011)
• Patricia MacMahon (2009, 2010)
• Donald Maxwell (2004, 2006, 2009)
• Lisa Milne (2002,2016)

Competitions/Awards/Scholarships:

• The John Connell Award - (2011)
• The Anne Ziegler Award - RNCM (2011)
• Frederic Cox Award - Finalist - RNCM (2011)
• Cross Trust Scholarship - (2010)
• James Caird Travelling Scholarship - (2010, 2011)
• Scottish International Educational Trust Scholarship - (2010)
• Ellie Pirie Scholarship - Aberdeen Bach Choir - (2003, 2006, 2007)

            
Live Recordings and Broadcasts:

• DVD recording/cinema link, Strauss Der Rosenkavalier, Glyndebourne. (2014)
•  Prom 6 Royal Albert Hall Live BBC Radio 3 - Strauss Der Rosenkavalier, Glyndebourne  (2014)
• DVD recording/cinema link, Donzietti Don Pasquale, Glyndebourne. (2013)
• Prom 60, Royal Albert Hall, Live BBC Radio 3 - Glyndebourne Billy Budd  (2013)
• Festival Mass, St John the Baptist's, Buxton, Recorded for BBC Radio 4 (2012)
• Last Night of the Proms, Glasgow Science Centre, BBC 1 live linkup and Live BBC Radio 3 (Nycos, 2002)
• Last Night of the Proms, Glasgow Green, BBC 1 live linkup and Live BBC Radio 3 (Nycos, 2004, 2006, 2008)
• Prom 20, Albert Hall, Live BBC Radio 3 (Nycos, 2006)
• Nycos Concert, St Cuthberts Edinbugh, Live BBC Radio 3 (Eternal light, 5 Mystical Songs)
• Songs of Praise, Glasgow City Halls, Recorded by BBC (Nycos, 2008)    

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