Joseph Cornwell     Tenor

Joseph Cornwell read music at York University and studied singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as a BP scholar. He started his career with the Consort of Musicke, the Tallis Scholars and the Taverner Consort, soon making his Proms debut in the Albert Hall singing the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 under Andrew Parrott, which he also recorded for EMI. He has since worked with such conductors as William Christie, Harry Christophers, Eric Ericson, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Robert King, Hervé Niquet, Paul McCreesh, Philip Pickett and Sir Roger Norrington, making many recordings. His career has taken him throughout Europe, to the USA, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, India and China.

His many recordings include Bach’s St Matthew Passion Evangelist, Boyce’s Peleus & Thetis, Campra’s Requiem, Handel’s Acis & Galatea (Gramophone Baroque Vocal CD of 2000), Carmelite’s Vespers and Messiah, Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor and Requiem, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle (BBC Radio 3 Record Review Choice), Awake Sweet Love (17th Century Lute Songs), Fairest Isle (songs from the British song book), Purcell’s King Arthur, Vivaldi’s Arsilda and more than 40 recordings with groups such as the Consort of Musicke, The New London Consort, Pro Cantione Antiqua and the Tallis Scholars.