Patrick McCarthy (conductor)
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Patrick McCarthy is an English Conductor and singer.
McCarthy trained as a baritone singer at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the London Opera Centre and came to public attention in 1974 during a performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana at The Proms in the Royal Albert Hall.
McCarthy was in the audience when Thomas Allen, the baritone soloist, fell ill during the performance, collapsing onto his chair and needing to be carried off by members of the orchestra. McCarthy went backstage and offered his services as a professional singer who was experienced with the piece. Given that the understudy for the part – a member of the choir – was, in fact, a doctor and therefore looking after Allen, his offer was accepted and McCarthy went onstage to complete the performance.
Subsequently his voice changed and he became a tenor singer, before moving to orchestral and choral conducting in 1992.
In that year he founded the Colchester Bach Choir and Orchestra, and he has also conducted the Ipswich Bach Choir and Chamber Orchestra, the Colchester Bach Choir and Orchestra and the Colchester Philharmonic.
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