William Missin

Countertenor

Born in Newcastle, William Missin studied at New College Oxford and the Royal College of Music.

His repertoire encompasses everything from the renaissance to the contemporary. He is a regular member of groups such as Monteverdi Choir, The Clerks Group, Gabrieli Consort, and the Tallis Scholars, and he has sung as a soloist with The King's Consort, English Concert and The Sixteen, as well as with orchestras and choirs throughout Britain and internationally.

This year he has performed Purcell Odes for le Concert d'Astrée in Paris, Handel's Dixit Dominus for Orlando Chamber Choir in St John's Smith Square, and Messiah with the Birmingham Bach Choir and in Hereford and Lichfield Cathedrals.

Operas have included Gluck's Orfeo (Finchcocks Festival), Vinao's Rashomon (Vocem Electric Voice Theatre), Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream (Anglia Opera), and Freyner's Syrius on Earth (Almeida Opera).

However, without doubt the highlight of his career has been to get his name and picture in Hello! magazine for playing a castrato opera star in an 18th century comedy for the Royal Shakespeare Company.