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2010

Opera: as Mirtillo in Handel's Il Pastor Fido, London Handel Festival

Photo: Chris Christodoulou

... Christopher Lowrey, who as Mirtillo, the faithful shepherd of the title, sang his way through a series of exhausting, highly decorated arias with admirable ease [and] liquid tone...


As Mirtillo [...] counter-tenor Christopher Lowrey's warm and athletic singing was the most engaging thing about this production – he is such a complete performer that his place in a student production is a mere technicality. We are sure to hear him everywhere soon.
Among the main cast it was Christopher Lowrey’s Mirtillo who really commanded attention. One to watch (or listen) out for, his is a lower countertenor voice with a striking depth and resonance. His opening aria, Sento brillar, demonstrated impressive control and legato which only became more evident in the opera’s most beautiful aria, Caro amor [...] Equipped with some dazzlingly secure coloratura technique and an ear for ornamentation, he romped his way through virtuoso numbers such as Torni pure un bel splendore, drawing spontaneous applause from an otherwise fairly demure audience. He also demonstrated a dramatic commitment that was by no means common to all the cast – taking risks and daring to overdo things where necessary.

Sunday’s cast featured an unusually gutsy and promising countertenor, Christopher Lowrey, as the shepherd Mirtillo...


London Handel Singing Competition

Lowrey showed a strong dramatic instinct and ravishing singing.




2009

Opera: as Oberon in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lowrey Oberon 2009Photo Chris Christodoulou
 Christopher Lowrey as Oberon reminded us that a countertenor need not sound merely fey; the voice, as various composers from Britten, to Goehr, to Birtwistle, have shown, can exhibit an otherworldly strength, as it did here.


As Oberon, Christopher Lowrey delivered a beguiling I know a bank.

Christopher Lowrey was a verbally incisive Oberon; his countertenor had a penetrating edge and he sang I know a bank beautifully...
- Opera


Opera: as Alessandro in Handel's Alessandro, London Handel Festival

The role of Handel’s soldier-king Alessandro (Alexander the Great whose empire reached to India in the east) takes some singing, and at first sight the young (he looks about sixteen, but obviously isn’t) American countertenor Christopher Lowrey seemed mis-matched to the role. That is until he opened his mouth, and started to dominate the stage. This young singer has that rare quality in this voice-type: a properly produced, strong warm tone, with no hint of that archetypal “English” hooty and constrained sound that is still too frequently found...Perhaps just as important for any future operatic career is his obvious delight in being on stage and his ability to hold the eye – not always obvious in other young singers at this level. A Handelian star in the making one hopes.

Of all these young voices, [Lowrey's] has the most character. Not so idiosyncratic as to distract from Handel’s elegant melodic contours, but varied enough, and with sufficient timbral interest to provide musical justification for each and every da capo repeat.


Lowrey [displayed] the flexibility of his plangent counter-tenor...
Christopher Lowrey in the title role has a lovely easy, free and silky countertenor.
- Opera Now
 

2008
The choir's sound is especially distinguished by its rarefied soprano section (women instead of the boys on the Pinnock disc), with strong solo work from one of the choir's altos, countertenor Christopher Lowrey.

The incidental alto solos are well done by Christopher Lowrey.

 

2007
Performance - Bach's Magnificat
Lowrey was wonderful in the Magnificat’s delicious Esurientes implevit bonis, written for two flutes, a jazzy walking bass and an alto. And his singing last night was remarkable, natural sounding and never forced. The Esurientes from the Bach, which talks about filling the hungry with good things and sending the rich away empty-handed, was terrific, with Lowrey leaning into the notes and tossing off nicely shaped phrases.








 

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