Baritone Oskar McCarthy’s career spans opera, theatre and music theatre. Recent highlights include The Presenter in New Year for Birmingham Opera Company, Eight Songs for a Mad King with Red Note Ensemble, Simon Hughes in Bermondsey, 1983 at Tête-à-Tête, Adam in Paradise Lost at Shipwright and Laura Bowler’s Lines, Letters and Disinformation for baritone and electronics, which he commissioned and premiered at Snape and Cafe OTO. He has devised new music theatre works with ERRATICA, Rufus Isabel Elliott, Zeo Fawcett and Alex Groves, given premieres by Ion Marmarinos and Robin Holloway, and appeared at Longborough Festival Opera, Scottish Opera, Waterperry Opera Festival and the Grange Festival.
Oskar is co-Artistic Director of Festival Voices, an experimental vocal ensemble with whom he has recently performed at Bold Tendencies and Southbank Centre. He was a member of the inaugural VOICEBOX programme for contemporary vocal performance, delivered by Juliet Fraser, is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland opera school and the University of Cambridge, and has studied Lecoq technique, clown and mime at the International School of Dramatic Corporeal Mime in Paris.