JAMES OXLEY

He studied as a cellist at the Royal College of Music. He subsequently developed his singing, studying privately with Rudolf Piernay. In 1992 he won first prize at both the Mary Garden and the Great Grimsby International competitions and, in 1994, was awarded first prize at the renowned International Vocalisten Concours at 's-Hertogenbosch. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Music. He has appeared at all the major concert halls: Symphony Hall Birmingham, Philharmonic Hall Liverpool, English National Opera, Garsington, New Kent Opera, Opera Comique de Paris, Opera de Renes, Opera de Rouen, as well as at the Three Choirs Festival, the Spoleto Festival, the Covent Garden Festival, Buton Festival. Notable UK concert credits include Missa Solemnis with Heinrich Schiff and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Stravinsky Renard with Psappha at the BBC Proms, Haydn Creation and Mozart Great Mass in C minor with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Handel Alexander's Feast with Northern Sinfonia and Nicholas McGegan. His engagements have taken him throughout Israel, China, Australia, USA and Europe, especially to France where he has worked with Philippe Herreweghe, Hervé Niquet and Christophe Rousset. He performed with the most renowned orchestras and ensembles, among other things: the Early Opera Company, the Monteverdi Choir, Philharmonia Baroque, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony, Manchester Camerata, Britten Sinfonia, Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, City of London Sinfonia, Les Talens Lyriques, Double Bande, The Sixteen, and the Gabrieli Consort and Players, the Northern Sinfonia, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He also recorded for the Soli Deo Gloria label.