Simon Birchall

Bass-Baritone

Simon Birchall began his singing career as a chorister at Oxford. He became a choral scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied with John Carol Case, and then went to the Guildhall School of Music, where his teacher was Bryan Drake.

His repertoire ranges from Bach and Handel to the music of the present day. His performances of Bach's Passions with the London Handel Orchestra have been particularly acclaimed, and he makes regular oratorio appearances throughout the country, singing works by Mendelssohn, Brahms and Elgar as well as the baroque repertoire. His membership of several vocal consorts has enabled him to travel widely, singing in places as far afield as Japan, Malaysia and East Africa. He is a member of the Amaryllis Consort, with whom he has recently performed Bach's St. Mark Passion in Paris.

Simon's recordings include Monteverdi's Vespers and Handel's Israel in Egypt with Harry Christophers and the Sixteen, Handel's Dixit Dominus with Simon Preston and the Choir of Westminster Abbey and recordings of Purcell's music for Harry Christophers and Martin Neary. Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri with the Sixteen has recently been released.