Harry Bicket

Born in Liverpool, Harry Bicket is internationally renowned for his interpretations of Baroque and Classical repertoire. He studied at the Royal College of Music and the University of Oxford, where he was Organ Scholar at Christ Church. Bicket is an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music and was appointed OBE in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honors.

Bicket was appointed Artistic Director of the English Concert in 2007. With the ensemble, he has undertaken an ambitious project to record all of Handel’s works as an online resource. Recent and forthcoming seasons include tours of Rinaldo in Asia and Hercules across the United States and United Kingdom, alongside a regular Wigmore Hall series, recording projects, and a residency in Malta.

Since 2013, Bicket has served as Music Director of Santa Fe Opera, conducting a wide range of repertoire including Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, Fidelio, Carmen, Alcina, Candide and Così fan tutte. In 2019, he conducted Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder with Renée Fleming, and he returns in the summer of 2026 to lead productions of Die Zauberflöte and Rodelinda.

A frequent guest at the Metropolitan Opera, his recent productions include Rodelinda, Giulio Cesare, Agrippina, Die Zauberflöte, and Così fan tutte. He has also appeared with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Canadian Opera Company, Houston Grand Opera, and leading opera houses across Europe, including Paris Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Opernhaus Zürich and the Liceu, Barcelona, where he received the Opera Critics’ Best Conductor Prize.

Equally in demand on the concert platform, Bicket has worked with major orchestras throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. A prolific recording artist, his extensive discography includes numerous acclaimed recordings with the English Concert, as well as Grammy- and Gramophone-nominated collaborations with artists such as Renée Fleming, Ian Bostridge, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, David Daniels, and Susan Graham.