Biography
British tenor Joseph Cornwell concentrates on Baroque operatic and oratorio works. He completed training at York University and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama before joining London’s early-music circles through performances with the Consort of Musicke and the Taverner Consort. Conductors including William Christie, Harry Christophers, Eric Ericson, John Eliot Gardiner, Robert King, Hervé Niquet, and Andrew Parrott regularly engage him for projects. Onstage he has portrayed Achille in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide for Opera Factory, Lurcanio in Handel’s Ariodante at St. Gallen Opera, the title role in Monteverdi’s Orfeo at the Boston Early Music Festival as well as in Rio de Janeiro and for Oslo Summer Opera, Giove in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse and the title role in Purcell’s King Arthur in Lisbon, Eumete in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse at the Académie Européenne de Musique during the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and Agenore in Mozart’s Il rè pastore for Radio Television Luxembourg. Concert engagements encompass the Bach Passions with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Handel’s Acis and Galatea and Messiah at the Bruges and Stuttgart festivals, Alexander’s Feast at the Namur Festival, Handel’s Solomon at the Göttingen Festival, the Monteverdi Vespers at the Edinburgh Festival, Purcell’s Odes with Les Arts Florissants, Honegger’s King David at the Brighton Festival, and the Mozart Requiem with the London Mozart Players. His discography features the Evangelist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Drottningholm Court Baroque Ensemble, the Campra Requiem with Le Concert Spirituel, Handel’s Carmelite Vespers, Messiah, and the Monteverdi Vespers with the Taverner Consort, Handel’s Acis and Galatea, the Monteverdi Vespers, and Mozart’s Mass in C minor with Les Arts Florissants (the former earning Gramophone Baroque Vocal CD of 2000), Mozart’s Requiem with the Yorkshire Baroque Soloists, Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle with Jos van Immerseel (BBC Radio 3 Building a Library Choice), the lute-song anthology Awake sweet love, Fairest Isle with the Parley of Instruments, and additional releases with the Consort of Musicke, the New London Consort, and Pro Cantione Antiqua.
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