About
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Cello
Chris is equally at home on modern and baroque instruments, and enjoys a varied career encompassing solo, chamber and orchestral performances.
He is a member of the Florian Ensemble, Tresillian Trio, and Abraxas Ensemble, and works regularly with pianist Charis Hanning. He has appeared as a guest with various ensembles including the Gildas Quartet and Lantivet Duo, and performed concertos by Walton, Finzi, and Dvorak among many others.
As a freelancer he has worked with a range of groups large and small, including St Paul’s Sinfonia and Suffolk Philharmonic (both as occasional principal), Bath Philharmonia, Outcry Ensemble, Manchester Camerata, Skipton Camerata, Opera Brava, London Musical Arts Orchestra, as well as playing in shows and even busking in Covent Garden! Chris is an experienced continuo player, and has performed Handel oratorios and Bach’s Passions in churches and cathedrals many times throughout the UK. As a baroque cellist he has played with the Hanover Band, Eboracum Baroque, and Manchester Baroque. He is an experienced session player - both live and remote recording - and has broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He has appeared at many of the UK’s top performance venues, from Cadogan and Wigmore Halls to Ronnie Scott’s, and has greatly enjoyed collaborations with acclaimed jazz musicians Callum Au and Nigel Price.
Chris studied with Raphael Wallfisch and Philip Higham at the Royal Northern College of Music, and chamber music with Catherine Manson and James Boyd of the London Haydn Quartet.
Viols
Chris plays bass and treble viols in a variety of early music settings from consorts to passions.
He appears regularly as a guest bass viol player with renowned consort Phantasm, recently at Wigmore Hall, Temple Church, and King’s College, Cambridge. He now plays treble viol in the new generation ensemble Tessera Consort, and has been the viol player of enterprising ‘historical pop group’ K’antu since 2018.
He has also worked with virtuoso harpsichordist Nathaniel Mander, with larger groups including Figure Ensemble, Three Parts Vied and Noxwode Baroque, and with acclaimed actor Mark Rylance. He regularly performs in Bach’s St. Matthew and St. John Passions as cellist doubling viola da gamba.
Chris began learning the viol in 2009 as a student of Laurence Dreyfus at Magdalen College, Oxford, and continued private studies with Jonathan Manson (also of Phantasm). He plays a bass viol by Marc Soubeyran, made in 2018.
“Chris has played in a number of performances with Liverpool Bach Collective since 2018. His sensitive and musical playing, particularly of the viola da gamba, has contributed a great deal especially to performances of the Bach Passions.”
— PHILIP DUFFY (former Director of Music, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral)
