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He is a countertenor, choral director and teacher born
in Newcastle, England. He took
his studies at the Royal College of Music and New College Oxford and became
a professional singer.
He has performed as a soloist or group member with
numerous ensembles that include The Clerks Group, the English Consort, the
Finzi Singers, Gabrieli Consort, the King’s Consort, the Monteverdi
Choir, Orlando Chamber Choir, Oxford Camerata, The Sixteen and The Tallis
Scholars.
He has also appeared with several orchestras and
choirs such as the Birmingham Bach Choir, The Choir of New College Oxford,
le Concert d’Astree, Nottingham Bach Choir and Orlando Chamber Choir
on a national and international level.
An active opera singer he has performed in productions
by composers such as Benjamin Britten, Paul Frehner and Christoph Willibald
Gluck. His work in other
productions includes him being an alto chorister in TV’s The Veil of the Temple and an
operatic castrato with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Very familiar with the recording studio, he has
appeared on albums that include Thomas Tallis: The Complete Works
– Vol. 6 by Chapelle du Roi, Matthew Locke: Motets, Anthem and
The Oxford Ode by The Choir of New College Oxford, Matthias Greiter:
Passibus Ambiguis (Fortuna Desperata) by The Clerks Group, English
Romantic Choral Works by The Finzi Singers and Lamentations by
Oxford Camerata.
As a music director he currently conducts the Ramsey
Choral Society and in the field of musical education he teaches at the
Wisbech Grammar School in Cambridgeshire.
Sources:
- http://www.chameleon-arts.co.uk/Pages/Singers/Countertenors/Williammissin.html
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1675304/
- http://www.classicsonline.com/artistbio/40693.htm
- http://www.classical.com/browse.php/composer/1686/
- http://www.newcollegechoir.co.uk/hyperion/locke.htm
- http://www.nottinghambachchoir.org.uk/review.php?review=050305
- http://www.ramseychoral.org/index.shtml
- http://www.wgs.cambs.sch.uk/news_latest_news/WGS_choir.html
- http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000AOI/qid=998375693/sr=1-6/ref=sr_sp_re/202-6984154-6261431
- http://signumrecords.com/catalogue/sigcd022/credits.shtml
- http://www.amazon.ca/Lamentations-Robert-White/dp/B0000013U6
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