Handel Duets with Iestyn Davies and Mary Bevan
Christopher is delighted to be guest-directing the Orchestra of Early Opera Company in a concert of Handel duets for Soprano and Counter-tenor. This concert will be part of the London Festival of Baroque Music at St John’s, Smith Square. More details and booking available at https://www.sjss.org.uk/events/early-opera-company-iestyn-davies-mary-bevan
London Handel Singing Competition 2024
Christopher will be on the adjudicating panel for the semi-finals of the London Handel Singing Competition in March 2024
Projects
Platée at Garsington Opera
Christopher is returning to Garsington Opera to assist Paul Agnew on Rameau’s, Platée. This will be the third major UK production of Rameau that Christopher has been involved with, having played for performances of Castor et Pollux at ENO and both assisted and chorus-mastered Hippolyte et Aricie for Glyndebourne.
Harmonious Siren: the Vocal music of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani
This programme explores the extraordinary music of this great and almost forgotten seventeenth century composer.. This concert focuses principally on her 1650 publications of psalms for Vespers in 8 parts and it has been a real pleasure discovering this amazing music with it’s wonderful harmonic twists, sensuous setting of language and great sense of drama. Interspersed between these magnificently architectural pieces, we are exploring some of her more intimately scored Marian settings.
The programme will be performed by Instruments of Time and Truth and the IT&T Vocal consort in Christchurch Cathedral on Saturday 10th February at 8pm. It features a stunning group of the UKs finest consort singers (Miriam Allan, Kate Symonds-Joy, David De Winter and Christopher Webb) who, alongside our luxury continuo team will have worked intensely with a small, hand-picked team of students from the University on stylistic vocal technique and advanced consort singing.
Our Orpheus Brittanicus - Purcell songs with students from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Christopher has curated this feast of songs from the first and second volumes of Orpheus Britannicus and worked intensively on stylistic interpretation, text and poetry. and performance techniques with nearly 40 undergraduates at the Conservatoire.