The tenor Robert Getchell began singing at the University of Massachusetts, 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, specialising in early music interpretation with Howard Crook. In Europe Robert Getchell has performed frequently with many ensembles, including Les Talens Lyriques, Musica Antiqua Köln, Le Parlement de Musique, Nederlandse Bachvereniging, l’Ensemble Pierre Robert, Al Ayre Español, and the Netherlands Chamber Choir, and is a frequent soloist in the Theatre and Opera of Rouen. On the operatic stage he has appeared in various baroque operas, including Lully’s Roland with René Jacobs, Lully’s Persée, A.C. Destouche’s Semiramis and Purcell’s The Fairy Queen with Christophe Rousset. Robert Getchell has been invited to sing in various festivals in Europe such as the festivals of Versailles, Ambronay, Fribourg, Beaune and Utrecht. He has recorded numerous CDs with works from composers from Charpentier and Mozart to Schubert, Mendelssohn, href="/composerinfo/Francis_Poulenc/20986.htm">Poulenc and more recently Sacchini with Opera Lafayette.