Christopher Adams (Bass)
Christopher sang for a year as Choral Scholar in Wells Cathedral in Somerset before taking up a Choral Exhibition at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was also a Senior Academic Scholar, graduating with a Double First in English. He is now in his third postgraduate year at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Mark Wildman and Iain Ledingham.
Christopher has been the recipient of scholarships from Trinity College and the Sir James Caird Foundation, and has won both the Norman McCann and the Harry Fisher Memorial Prizes at the Royal Academy. He has sung with such groups as Oxford Camerata, Trinity Baroque and Chapelle du Roi, touring the United States, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Israel and parts of Europe as well as taking part in several CD recordings.
Past oratorio performances include Bach's Christmas Oratorio at St. James, Piccadilly, Bach's St. Matthew Passion for the Amersham Festival, Hadyn's The Creation and Chichester Cathedral and Haydn's Nelson Mass at Wells Cathedral. Opera roles include Collatinus in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia, Colas in Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne and Valens in Handel's Theodora conducted by Nicholas McGeegan for the Spitalfields Festival and Bach's Mass in B Minor at Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh.