These are my current biographies (Spring 2020) for use in concert programmes. Please use whichever version will fit best into your concert programme.

Short Biography

Gary Griffiths (Baritone) has sung roles with Suffolk Opera, Commedia Opera and Trinity Music & Drama, Chelmsford. He appears regularly with choirs in London and East Anglia. As well as the standard oratorio repertoire, Gary sings opera and show songs with Ipswich-based Four Voices and with Country House Opera in mid-Essex. He is also a member of the early music group, Eight Voices.

Gary lives in Westcliff-on-Sea with his wife, two sons and two cats.

Longer Biography

Gary Griffiths (baritone) sings frequently throughout Suffolk, Essex and East London and Essex. His repertoire includes Requiems by Brahms, Fauré, Duruflé and Howard Goodall, the Puccini Messa di Gloria, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solonelle, Stainer’s Crucifixion, Haydn’s The Seasons and, of course, Handel’s Messiah.

Gary has previously sung the role of Aeneas for Braintree and Harleston Choral Societies; he has appeared in La Bohème and Carmen with Suffolk Opera, Carmen and Madam Butterfly with Commedia Opera, The Sorceror with Trinity Methodist Music and Drama and HMS Pinafore with Maldon Choral Society.

He is a member of Four Voices, which sings programmes of popular opera and show songs. He also sings with the coincidentally-named Eight Voices in London, specialising in unaccompanied pre-Baroque music. He has previously toured Germany as a member of the Chorus of the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Gary lives in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex with his wife, two sons and two cats.