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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 and was fully supported by the Keasbey
Memorial Scholarship. He is currently on the advanced opera course at
the Royal College of Music International Opera School, supported by the
Hilary Fabian Award and the Josephine Baker Trust.
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 Derek Lee Ragin, 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 returned 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 Mirtillo in Handel's Il Pastor Fido as part of the 2010
London Handel Festival, 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 a disc of
choral music entitled Baltic Exchange,
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 Ensemble Altera, an
American-based early music ensemble.
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