James Gilchrist

James Gilchrist (tenor) James Gilchrist’s extensive concert repertoire has seen him perform in major concert halls throughout the world with renowned conductors including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Roger Norrington and Harry Christophers.

A master of English music, he has performed Britten’s Church Parables in St Petersburg, London and at the Aldeburgh Festival, Nocturne with the NHK Symphony in Tokyo and the War Requiem with the San Francisco Symphony and the National Youth Orchestra of Germany. He has performed the role of Rev. Adams in Britten’s Peter Grimes at the Edinburgh Festival, London’s Royal Festival Hall and Covent Garden, the Grieghallen, Bergen, Opéra de Paris, Teatro Real Madrid, and Opera di Roma.

As an established recitalist, James has performed with pianist Anna Tilbrook for more than twenty-five years. Their discography includes song cycles by Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge and Songs of Travel, and songs by Sir Lennox Berkeley, Benjamin Britten, John Jeffreys and Roger Quilter. They have also been involved in several commissions from Sally Beamish, Julian Philips, Jonathan Dove, Alec Roth and Michael Zev Gordon.