James Gilchrist

James Gilchrist

James Gilchrist began his working life as a doctor, turning to a full-time career in music in 1996.

James has recorded two collections of English songs for Linn Records; "Oh Fair To See", songs for tenor and piano by Gerald Finzi, and "On Wenlock Edge", works by Vaughan Williams, Gurney, Bliss and Warlock which won James a Finalist nomination in the 2008 Classic FM Gramophone Awards in the Solo Vocal category.  James Gilchrist and Linn Records will be returning to the studio in September 2008 to record a recital of works by Kenneth Leighton and Benjamin Britten.

James' recent concert appearances include: Damon in Acis and Galatea at the Proms (Academy of Ancient Music/Paul Goodwin), Bach cantatas with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra in their celebrated Bach Pilgrimage (Sir John Eliot Gardiner/Europe - America), Monteverdi Vespers and Messiah (The Sixteen/Japan), Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance and Ralph in HMS Pinafore (Scottish Chamber Orchestra), the title role in Judas Maccabeus (The King's Consort), Elgar Dream of Gerontius, Septimius in Theodora (Scottish Chamber Orchestra), Israel in Egypt (Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Scottish Chamber Orchestra), B Minor Mass (Semyon Bychkov/Turin and Santa Caecilia in Rome), Mozart Requiem (Seattle Symphony Orchestra), L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato and a televised performance of Berlioz L'enfance du Christ at the BBC Proms (Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra), Alexander's Feast in Salzburg, Judas Maccabeus with the Danish Radio Orchestra, Bach's Christmas Oratorio with Ton Koopman and the Tönhalle Orchestra in Zurich, L'enfance du Christ with the Northern Sinfonia, and the Evangelist in the Bach/Mendelssohn St Matthew Passion with the OAE.

As a recitalist, he has appeared with Malcolm Martineau performing a new commission by Francis Grier, with Stephen Varcoe and Della Jones in St John's, Smith Square performing Percy Grainger, 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 in recital by the harpist Alison Nicholls and recently appeared 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'.

Operatic performances include: Quint in Britten's Turn of the Screw (New Chamber Opera), Ferrando in Cosi Fan Tutti, Scaramuccio in Strauss' Ariadne Auf Naxos (Richard Hickox), Gomatz in Mozart's Zaide (Istanbul), Vaughan Williams' Sir John in Love (Barbican/Radio 3), Hyllus in Handel's Hercules (Berlin), Acis & Galatea at the Berlin Staatsoper, and Evandre in Gluck's Alceste at La Monnaie in Brussels.

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