Conductor and harpsichordist Christopher Bucknall, excels both on the concert platform and in the opera house, sharing his passion for bringing music from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries alive. He is also a highly experienced vocal coach, fervent in his mission to unlock the mysteries of interpreting baroque vocal music with singers at all stages of their development.

Conducting credits include Handel, Alcina (Den Norske Opera), Cavalli, La Calisto and Cesti, L’Orontea (Theater Aachen), Handel, Agrippina, Partenope, Jeptha (Iford Arts), Haydn, Il Mondo della Luna (ETO), Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (Queille Festival and IF Opera) and Monteverdi, L'Orfeo (Silent Opera). He has also worked throughout Europe as an assistant to Ivor Bolton, William Christie, Laurence Cummings, Christian Curnyn and Ottavio Dantone.

On the concert platform, Christopher has appeared directing The English Concert, B’Rock (Belgian Baroque Orchestra Ghent), Instruments of Time and Truth, City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Real Filharmonie de Galicia and the Norwegian Wind Ensemble in varied repertoire ranging from Monteverdi through to Mozart. He also regularly collaborates with the UK’s finest vocal ensembles including performances of Bach's Weihnachtsoratorium with the BBC Singers, and highly praised preparation of the Glyndebourne and English National Opera choruses in works by Purcell and Rameau.

Christopher studied Music at Lincoln College, Oxford and harpsichord with conducting at the Royal Academy of Music. He is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in recognition of his work and is a visiting coach and lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

He lives in Oxfordshire and when not playing, conducting and coaching, Christopher is to be found planning and planting gardens both real and imagined.