He has worked with conductors including Steuart Bedford, Ivor Bolton, Martyn Brabbins, Philippe Herreweghe, Richard Hickox, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Neville Marriner, Marc Minkowski, Trevor Pinnock and Sir David Willcocks, and with orchestras such as the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the London Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic, the Philharmonia, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestra of The Age of Enlightenment. A noted Bach Evangelist, he is also associated with the music of Benjamin Britten, performing Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings in Greece and Norway, Spring Symphony in Budapest and the War Requiem in England, Northern Ireland and Italy. Other notable performances have included Faust La damnation de Faust at the Three Choirs Festival, Judas Maccabæus with the Israel Chamber Orchestra and Pastore Oedipus Rex under Jeffrey Tate for Italian Television.

Operatic roles include Acis Acis and Galatea in Canada with Trevor Pinnock, Tamino Die Zauberflöte in New Zealand, Albert Herring for Opera 80, Peter Quint The Turn of the Screw in Northern Ireland and at Garsington, Gonsalve L’heure espagnole for Grange Park Opera, and Thespis/Mercure Platée with Marc Minkowski at the Palais Garnier, Paris. In demand for contemporary works, he has appeared as Electrician in Thomas Adès Powder Her Face in Amsterdam, Berlin and Copenhagen, Second Judge in Param Vir’s Broken Strings in Pierre Audi’s production in Antwerp, Rotterdam and Rouen, and Pedro in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s The Country of the Blind for English National Opera.

In recital, Richard Edgar-Wilson works with Eugene Asti, Graham Johnson and the Songmakers’ Almanac, John Constable, Julius Drake and Malcolm Martineau. His many broadcasts for the BBC include a live Mozart recital with Joan Rodgers and Roger Vignoles, and a programme of Heine settings for Voices. Recordings include Rimenes Artaxerxes with the Parley of Instruments, Boyce David’s Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan and Ode for St Cecilia’s Day with the Hanover Band, Coates Songs with Eugene Asti, Messiah with the London Festival Orchestra, Dioclesian with The English Concert, Die Schöne Müllerin with Joanna Leach (fortepiano), Consigliero San Giovanni Battista (GRAMOPHONE Baroque Vocal CD Award) with Les Musiciens du Louvre and On Wenlock Edge with the Coull String Quartet. Television appearances have included Beauty in Gerald Barry’s The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit for Channel 4 and Radames in the Norwegian feature film Suffløsen.

Engagements this season include Beethoven’s Choral Symphony at the Albert Hall, Schubert’s Schwanengesang with James Lisney, the Nelson Mass in Bergen and St Matthew Passion with Apollo’s Fire in the United States.