 Robert Getchell began singing at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst where he studied French and Spanish literature. In France, he studied French baroque music at the 'Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles' and continued his studies with Margreet Honig at the Amsterdam Conservatory, specializing in early music interpretation with Howard Crook. In Europe Robert Getchell is a frequently asked soloist, performing with many ensembles such as L’Orchestre des Champs-Elysées (Philippe Herreweghe, conductor), Les Talens Lyriques, Il Fondamento, Concerto Köln, Les Folies Françoises, La Stagione Frankfurt, The Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Al Ayre Español, Le Concert des Nations con. Jordi Savall, and Il Fondamento. Getchell has performed the role of La Furie in Lully’s Isis with Hugo Reyne, Astolphe in Lully’s Roland, Mercure in Lully's Persée, The Chamberlin in Purcell's The Fairy Queen, Eurimaco in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse, and the title role in Le Claire´s Scylla et Glaucus with Christophe Rousset. In America, he regularly sings with Opera Lafayette, having performed roles such as Hyppolyte in Rameau´s Hyppolyte et Aricie, Polinice in Sacchini´s Oedipe a Colone and Renaud in Lully’s Armide (the latter two recorded by Naxos). He performed the role of Gomatz and Le Podestat in Mozart Short Cuts a staged opera by Jérôme Deschamps and Macha Makeïf, (L. Equilbey, conductor). Mr. Getchell has been invited to sing in various festivals in Europe such as the festivals of Versailles, Ambronay, Fribourg, Beaune and Utrecht, and he has recorded numberous CD's with works from composers from Charpentier and Mozart to Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Poulenc. He recently recorded Haydn´s Die Sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze (Naïve Classique) with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and the Accentus Chamber Choir. In 2010 he will be singing Gluck’s Armide in New York City, USA with L’Opéra Lafayette, will perform the role of Ferrando in Mozart’s Così fan Tutte in the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (Jean-Claude Malgoire, conductor), and participate in a European tour of Mozart’s Requiem with conductor Philippe Herreweghe and L’Orchestre des Champs-Elysées.
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