Peter Harvey (baritone)

Peter Harvey (born 1958 ) is an English classical singer (baritone ).

Harvey studied at Magdalen College, Oxford and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Central to his repertoire is a Baroque music. He joined, among others with Harry Christophers and The Sixteen, Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists, Gérard Lesne and Il Seminario Musicale, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Gabrieli Consort.

He appeared in Bach's St. Matthew and St. John Passions and Schubert's E-flat major exhibition and numerous Bach cantatas. In the course of Gardiner's Bach Cantata Pilgrimage (2000), he completed only seventy live performances.

In addition, Harvey sings works by contemporary composers. He has appeared as St. John on in a televised performance of John Tavener's The Cry of the Ikon. In 2007 he undertook a U.S. tour with the Netherlands Bach Society and completed a series of performances of Gabriel Fauré's Requiem with the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne, Michel CORBOZ in Japan. With Roger Vignoles he performed at the festivals of Cambridge and Lugo Schubert's Winterreise.

Harvey has recorded more than 80 albums, including the Bach Passions and many of his cantatas of Buxtehude cantatas, motets by Lully and Rameau, Fauré and Mozart's Requiem and sacred music of Monteverdi.

He taught as a visiting professor at the Royal College of Music in London.