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J S Bach B minor Mass Wells
Cathedral Saturday, 10th
November 2007 |
James Gilchrist (tenor)
JAMES GILCHRIST began his
working life as a doctor, turning to a full-time career in music in
1996.
James’ concert appearances include Damon in Acis and
Galatea at the Proms, Bach cantatas with the Monteverdi
Choir and
Orchestra in their celebrated Bach Pilgrimage, Tippett’s The
Knot Garden , Monteverdi Vespers and Messiah , Frederic
in The Pirates
of Penzance and Ralph in HMS Pinafore , the
title role in Judas
Maccabeus,
Septimius Theodora,
Israel in Egypt, B Minor Mass, Mozart
Requiem, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il
Moderato and a televised
performance of Berlioz L’enfance
du Christ at the BBC Proms,
Alexander’s
Feast in Salzburg, Bach’s Christmas
Oratorio with Ton Koopman and the Tonhalle Orchestra in
Zürich, the Evangelist in the Bach/Mendelssohn St Matthew
Passion with the OAE, a residency with the Nash Ensemble
at Princeton
University, Israel in
Egypt on tour with Collegium Vocale,
Mozart’s C
Minor Mass with the Tonhalle Orchestra in
Zürich, Bach cantatas with the Bach Collegium Japan, St
Matthew Passion with North Carolina Symphony Orchestra and at Symphony
Hall, Boston, St John
Passion with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra,
Britten’s Serenade
at The Sage, Gateshead and The
Seasons
with the Handel & Haydn Society under Sir Roger Norrington at
the BBC Proms.
James is a keen exponent of contemporary music and has
performed in the world premieres of Knut Nystedt’s
Apocalypsis Joannis
(Oslo Philharmonic), John Tavener’s
Total Eclipse
(Academy of Ancient Music), which was also recorded, and
Helen Ottaway’s new commission for the Salisbury Festival,
The Echoing Green.
As a recitalist, he has appeared with Malcolm Martineau, with Stephen
Varcoe and Della Jones at St John’s Smith Square, and with
John Constable performing Britten Canticles,
Quilter To Julia
and
Tippett The
Heart’s Assurance for the BBC. In his
partnership with the pianist Anna Tilbrook, he has performed Schumann
Liederkreis
(op 24), Finzi Till
Earth Outwears and Poulenc
Metamorphoses
for BBC Radio 3. James is also partnered regularly by the
harpist Alison Nicholls and recently appeared in recital with the Nash
Ensemble at the Wigmore Hall, and at the Bury St Edmunds Festival in a
programme featuring a new commission by Alec Roth based on Vikram
Seth’s ‘All
You Who Sleep Tonight’.
Engagements in 2007/2008 include
War Requiem and Dream
of Gerontius at
the Three Choirs Festival, Mass
in C Minor at the Salzburg Festival, On
Wenlock Edge with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales,
Bach Concerts on
tour with the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra, Creation at the
Frauenkirche, Dresden and at Westminster Cathedral for the Bach Choir,
Lechmere Owen Wingrave
(concert) for CLS at Cadogan Hall, Pulcinella
for Radio Svizzera in Lugano, St
Matthew Passion at the Royal Festival
Hall and Ugone Flavio
for the Academy of Ancient Music in Birmingham
and London.