photo: Jorge Lizalde
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After his music degree, John spent a number of years working as a classical singer in London. As a choral singer he worked with the choirs of Westminster Abbey, St George's Windsor and the Dmitri Ensemble among many others, singing for broadcasts, tours, and several recording sessions in the famous Studio 2 at Abbey Road. He had opportunities to work with world-renowned composers including Arvo Pärt, Giles Swayne, James MacMillan, John Rutter and Sir John Tavener.
As a soloist, he gave performances of Bach's B Minor Mass and St John Passion, Harvey Brough/Henry Purcell's A Fairy Dream, Faure's Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Coronation Mass and Requiem, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, and Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs and Fantasia on Christmas Carols. _ John has also worked as an actor, including at the Almeida, Bush and Unicorn in London, Theatre Royal Bath, Sheffield Crucible and Edinburgh Traverse, with directors including Blanche MacIntyre, Ellen McDougall, Lyndsey Turner and Omar Elerian. He also performed in several plays and dramas on BBC Radio 4, including eleven series as regular character Will in The Diary of Samuel Pepys. _ He is now based in Leeds and focuses mainly on composition and sound-design. |