Julian Perkins is artistic director of the Cambridge Handel Opera Company and Sounds Baroque. He has appeared at the Salzburg Festival, Edinburgh International Festival and the BBC Proms, directed the Academy of Ancient Music and performed keyboard concertos with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Florilegium and The Sixteen.

Contemporary music with a tonal basis acts in creative counterpoint to Perkins’ activities as a Baroque and Classical specialist, and he has directed numerous performances with singers including Rebecca Evans, Dame Emma Kirkby, Mark Padmore, Christopher Purves and David Wilson-Johnson.

He has conducted staged opera productions for the Buxton International Festival, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Kings Place, Dutch National Opera Academy, New Chamber Opera and New Kent Opera, and performed as the solo harpsichordist for productions at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Welsh National Opera and Northern Ireland Opera. He conducts annual Baroque projects with the Southbank Sinfonia, and regularly coaches singers and instrumentalists at the National Opera Studio, music colleges and universities.

For more information, visit www.julianperkins.com.