2026 - Exciting Season Ahead

I am looking ahead after a busy and intense Easter period of Matthew Passions. Highlights included performing with Antwerp Symphony and Laurence Cummings, Amsterdam Concertgebouworkest with Klaus Makela and a King’s College Cambridge BBC broadcast with Daniel Hyde. These concerts were followed by two Haydn Creations with Paul McCreesh in Bucharest.

Now, I look forward to performances of Handel’s Agrippina in June in Rouen, Normandy, with David Bates conducting in Robert Carsen’s fabulous production from Vienna. Later in June I sing the Dream of Gerontius in St Albans and in July, a lovely recital of Purcell and John Blow with Peter Seymour at the York Early Music Festival.

Later this season I will tackle new Handel repertoire to me. I have long wanted to perform Saul, and I will perform that with Paul McCreesh and his wonderful Gabrieli Roar team in Ely Cathedral. Other new Handel works include L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato in Warsaw with Nicholas McGegan and Belshazzar with the Dunedin Consort in Vienna and London.

I am thrilled to take another look at Schubert’s Winterreise with Anna Markland in December and there will be many more things in the Autumn that will keep me fully occupied.