Jeremy Birchall
bass
Jeremy Birchall has performed much of the bass concert repertoire in venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican, Chatelet, Megaron and the Lincoln Centre in New York. He has given several performances at the Proms, working under Andrew Davis, Richard Hickox and Stephen Layton and with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and City of London Sinfonia. His voice has been specially suited to pieces by John Tavener and more recently, Philip Glass. John Tavener premieres and recordings include ‘The Apocalypse’, ‘The Last Discourse’, ‘Song for Athene’, ‘Theophany’ and many performances of the seven hour ‘The Veil of the Temple’, most recently at the 2015 Trondheim Festival.
Over the years he has sung with most of the leading groups specialising in both early and contemporary music, including the Taverner Consort, Tallis Scholars, BBC Singers, Polyphony, Deller Consort, Tenebrae, English Concert, Singcircle, London Sinfonietta Voices, Groupe Vocal de France and the Harp Consort. He was a founder member of the a cappella crossover ensemble ‘The Shout’.
He has made more than 250 CDs ranging from early and contemporary music to opera, pop music and Hollywood film scores and has appeared in many operas with ENO, WNO and ROH Covent Garden. His cabaret group, The Demon Barbers, took part in Lorin Maazel’s ‘1984’ at ROH (2005) and the Valencia Opera House (2011).
He is also a founder member of YANTRA, three soloists from Bulgaria, India and UK. Their rich vocal fusion explores the ancient spiritual and folkloric music from these three countries. They recorded their debut album “A Journey Through Timelessness” in 2014 and have recently returned from a five week tour of Japan. (www.yantramusic.net)
