Dawid Kimberg

Biography

Dawid was born in Johannesburg and attended the Drakensberg Boys’ Choir School. He moved to the UK in 2001 and studied at the Royal College of Music with Ryland Davies and subsequently at the National Opera Studio. Dawid represented South Africa in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition 2009.

His many oratorio performances in the UK and South Africa include the St John Passion, Mass in B minor, Magnificat and various Bach Cantatas, Handel’s Messiah, Samson and Dixit Dominus, Mozart’s Mass in C major and Requiem, Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Creation, Faure’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Puccini’s Messe di Gloria, Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs, Tippett’s A Child of our Time, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater and the complete choral works of Durufle (available on the Lammas label). Further engagements include St Matthew Passion at Bath Abbey, Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony in Cleveland, St John Passion and Easter Oratorio in Norway, Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall (Sir David Willcocks), Mass in B Minor at Wells Cathedral for Bristol Bach Choir and regular appearances with the London Mozart Players. Dawid also attended the Aix-en-Provence Festival Academy in 2008. In recital he has performed works by Schumann, Wolf, Brahms, Beethoven, Mahler, Finzi, Britten, Vaughan-Williams, Faure, Duparc and Schubert, including Die Schoene Muellerin in Aberdeen and London. He was the 2004 winner of the Great Elm Vocal Awards and the recipient of the Joaninha Award in 2007.

Operatic roles include Bruno in Parthenogenesis by James MacMillan performed in Canterbury Cathedral, Masetto in Don Giovanni at the Purcell Room, Morales in Carmen for Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Creonte in Haydn’s Orfeo ed Euridice in Moscow and Adonis in Venus and Adonis for Transition Opera at Wilton’s Music Hall. In September 2009 Dawid joined the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House. His roles in the 2009/10 season included the Flemish Deputy (Don Carlos), The Steersman (Tristan und Isolde), Potapych and cover Astley (The Gambler), cover Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen) and Morales (Carmen).

Dawid recently sang Leuthold in Rossini’s Guillaume Tell at the Santa Cecilia in Rome with Maestro Pappano, recorded live for EMI.

In 2011 he made his debut at the Bolshoi Theatre as Dr. Falke (Die Fledermaus).