Performances

  • G.F. HANDEL
    Israel in Egypt – Fishguard Festival Orchestra, Dorking Festival (dir Brian Kay),
                                          Colchester Choral Society
    Messiah – Norwegian Baroque Orchestra, Colchester Choral Society, City of London Sinfonia,
                           Fishguard Festival Orchestra, Holmfirth Choral Society, Wells Oratorio Society,
                           London Handel Orchestra in Windsor Castle
    Samson – Colchester Choral Society
    Dettingham Te Deum – Cheltenham Bach Choir
    Nisi Dominus – Colchester Bach Choir
    Dixit Dominus - Tenebrae & The English Concert, London Handel Orchestra in Windsor Castle
    Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne – London Handel Orchestra in Windsor Castle
    Esther – The Parley of Instruments
    Hercules - Colchester Institute School of Music
    The Choice of Hercules - The Parley of Instruments

  • J.S. BACH
    Magnificat – Guildford Philarmonic Orchestra (dir Nicholas Kraemer),
                                Colchester Choral Society, Cheltenham Bach Choir (dir Brian Kay)
    Christmas Oratorio – Israel Chamber Orchestra (dir Nicholas Kraemer), Wells
                                                  Oratorio Society
    St John Passion – Dorking Festival (dir Brian Kay), Colchester Bach Choir,
                                            The Parley of Instruments, The London Mozart Players (dir John Scott)
    St Matthew Passion – Edinburgh, The Parley of Instruments
  • HENRY PURCELL
    Come ye Sons of Art - The Cheltenham Bach Choir (dir. Brian Kay), The Parley of Instruments
    Te Deum - The Cheltenham Bach Choir (dir. Brian Kay)
    Fly Bold Rebellion - The Parley of Instruments
    Timon of Athens - The Parley of Instruments (Sweden)
    King Athur - The Parley of Instruments
    Ode on St. Cecaelia's Day -     The Parley of Instruments
    The Fairy Queen - The Parley of Instruments, The Gabrieli Consort, Armonico Touring Opera
  • JOHN BLOW
    Ode on the death of Henry Purcell - with Michael Chance, Stour Music Festival
    Venus and Adonis - The Parley of Instruments
    Ode for New Year's Day - The Parley of Instruments
  • VIVALDI
    Nisi Dominus -  Colchester Choral Society, The Parley of Instruments
    Gloria - Colchester Choral Society
    Stabat Mater -     The Parley of Instruments, The Musicke Companye
    Salve Regina - The Parley of Instruments
  • A.BONONCINI  Stabat Mater - Colchester Choral Society
  • PERGOLESI  Magnificat - Colchester Choral Society
  • PEPUSCH  Magnificat - The London Handel Orcehstra
  • BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms – Colchester Choral Society, Cheltenham Bach Choir
                                                                                The London Bach Choir, Hertford Choral Society
  • As a regular soloist with The Parley of Instruments (dir. Peter Holman)

    LULLY     - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
    SCHUTZ - Resurrection Story
    CARISSIMI - Jepthe
    DRAGHI - Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day  


Ensembles
 

  • The Musicke Companye 1996-1999
    (counter-tenor, soprano, harpsichord, 'cello)
    Programmes included solos and duets by Purcell, Blow, Bononcini, Stradella and Handel.
    National Federation of Music Societies 'Recommended Artist Award' 1996-1997.
    Italian Baroque Music at Bishop Auckland Early Music Festival.
    Regular performances in The Wigmore Hall, including:
    'A Valentines Day Concert', Odes by Henry Purcell, Cantata’s by Handel & Caldara.
    See also recordings page
     
  • The Choir of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle: Lay-Clerk from 1995-2003
    The Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral: Vicar Choral from 2004
     
  • The Monteverdi Choir                             J.S.Bach Magnificat, Cantata's, St Matthew Passion;
                                                                                                    ' El Camino de Santiago' Tour: Renaissance Polyphony
    The Gabrieli Consort                              ‘A Venetian Coronation’; Mozart Requiem, Mass in C minor;
                                                                                                     Purcell Fairy Queen; Haydn Creation; Stravinsky Mass
    The English Concert                                J.S.Bach St Matthew Passion; Handel Dixit Dominus
    Collegium Musicum 90                               Handel Messiah
    The Choir of The Enlightenment                  Monteverdi Orfeo; Charpentier David and Johnathan
    Tenebrae                                                                         The Dream of Herod; English Choral Music.
    La Grand Chapelle                                                         Renaissance Spanish Polyphony
    The Chorus of The Royal Opera House         Lorin Maazel 1984
    Musica Antiqua of London                        'Nel foco tremor: Fire and Ice' at The York Early Music Festival
    The Orlando Consort                                                Ockegham Mass in Madrid

 

Recitals
 

  • Lute Recitals with:
    David Miller
    2000 (Brightlingsea), 2002 (Windsor Castle),
    2003 (Early Music Network Exhibition, Greenwich Old Royal Naval College)

    Jacob Heringman
    2005 (Early Music Network Exhibition, broadcast on The Early Music Show – see recordings page)
     
  • Song recitals with pianists:

    Jeremy Filsell in 2002 (Windsor Castle)
    Jonathan Beatty in 2003 (Oslo Church Music Festival)
     

Sample Recital Programmes


My Own Country
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)            Music for a while
                                                              There's not a swain
                                                               Sweeter than Roses      

Michael Howard  (born 1922)      The Painted Rose                  
                                                                           i.  The Painted Rose, ii.  So by my singing am I comforted,
                                                                           iii.  Before Sleep, iv.  David’s lament for Johnathan

Peter Warlock  (1894-1930)        Three Old English Lyrics
                                                             The Lover's Maze
                                                             Take, o take those lips away
                                                             Love for Love                 

Betty Roe (born 1930)                    To his sweet saviour
                                                             To his saviour, a child                              

C.H.H.Parry  (1848-1918)            Whether I Live
                                                             Julia
                                                             She is my love beyond all thought                           

Herbert Howells  (1892-1983)     King David
                                                             Full Moon (from Peacock Pie)                    

Peter Warlock                                 Sleep
                                                             Passing By
                                                             My Own Country  
 
Henry Purcell                                  If music be the food of love
                                                             Evening Hymn                    

Accompanied by Piano



Music for a While
HENRY PURCELL            ‘Tis Nature’s Voice                 
                                                 Here the Deities approve  
                                                                                                                                                                                   
JOHN BLOW                   Songs from “Amphion Anglicus” 1700
                                                The Self Banished  
                                                 Tell Me no more 
                                                 Lovely Selina 

ROBERT DE VISÉE       Suite for Theorbo in Gmajor
                                                 Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Les Silvains

PURCELL                         Stage songs
                                          Music for a while
                                                 Since from my dear Astrea’s sight
                                                 What shall I do to show how much I love her?
                                              Sacred songs
                                                 How long Great God
                                                 Sleep, Adam, sleep, and take thy rest 
                                                 Evening Hymn  

Accompanied by Theorbo & Violoncello


Like as the Lute Delights
John Dowland  (1563-1626)        Praeludium   
                                                            Come again, sweet love doth now invite               
                                                            Sleep, wayward thoughts       
                                                            Awake, sweet love    

John Danyel (1564-1626)             Like as the lute delights                               

John Dowland                                   Galliard
                                                              A Fancy                                                                                                  
                                                              The Frog Galliard                                                                                                                                               
John Danyel                                      “Mrs. M.E. her Funerall teares for the death of her husband”                    
                                                                       i - Grief keep within
                                                                       ii - Drop not mine eyes
                                                                       iii - Have all our passions certain proper vents                                     

John Dowland                                      Now cease my wandering eyes                        
                                                                 Fine knacks for ladies   

J S Bach (1685-1750)                         Songs from The Anna Magdalena Notebook                                                   
                                                                      Gedenke doch bei mir
                                                                       Bist du bei mir
                                                                       'Jesu, der aus grosser Liebe'  (from Cantata BWV 165)                      

Henry Purcell                                        Crown the altar
                                                                   When Orpheus sang
                                                                    Since from my dear Astrea’s sight

Giovanni Kapsberger (1580-1651)    Prelude
                                                                     Toccata Arpeggiata
                                                                     Kapsberger                 

Henry Purcell                         Evening Hymn                 
                                                   While Thirsis wrapped in downy sleep        

Accompanied by Renaissance & Baroque Lutes and Theorbo