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Countertenor Christopher Lowrey, originally from the United States,
holds degrees from Brown University, St John's College, Cambridge, and
the Royal College of Music. While at Cambridge, he was a choral scholar
with Trinity College Choir under Stephen Layton. He is currently on the
advanced opera course at the Royal College of Music International Opera
School.
Christopher won the London Handel Society's Michael Oliver Prize as
runner-up in the 2010 Handel Singing Competiton. He was a finalist in
the 2008 London Bach Society Competition, the 2006
Fulbright Scholarship competition, and in 2005 was awarded first prize
at the Rhode Island competition of the National Association of Teachers
of Singing. Currently, he is a voice student of Mark Tucker, and has
previously studied with Ashley Stafford and Pierre Masse. He holds a
full-time singing post at St Peter's, Eaton Square, London, and
performs regularly with the professional choral outfits of London,
including Polyphony and English Voices.
Christopher made his solo international debut with Bach Collegium Japan
under Masaaki Suzuki in Handel's Messiah
and returns to Japan this season to perform Goffredo in
a concert version of Rinaldo. Here and abroad his reputation is
growing, and this year he will make his debut with various ensembles
around the world.
His recent roles include Oberon in the RCM's production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the
title role in Handel's Alessandro as
part of the 2009 London Handel Festival, and Orpheus in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. Concert
appearances include a celebration of Handel's music with the Aldeburgh
Music Club; Bach's Magnificat and
Vivaldi's Gloria with the
Ecclesia Consort of New England; Handel's Dixit Dominus with Caius College
Music Society; Handel's Messiah,
Mozart's Requiem, and
Handel's Coronation Anthems
with the Trinity Singers; David in Boston University's production of
Handel's Saul; Purcell's Jubilate Deo, J S Bach's Missa Brevis and St John Passion, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Charpentier's Te Deum with the Brown University
Chamber Choir; and several Bach Cantata concerts with Musica Maris.
Christopher is featured as a soloist on recordings of Handel's Dettingen Te Deum and the
forthcoming disc of choral music of Ugis Praulins, both with Trinity
College Choir, on the Hyperion label. He is also involved in a wide
range of consort groups. He is the founder and director of The
Cambridge Clerkes, a group specializing in sacred music of the English
Renaissance, and directs Altera, an American-based early music
ensemble.
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