The Queen's Six comprises a male vocal sextet headquartered at Windsor Castle and linked to its resident St. George's Chapel Choir. The ensemble has cultivated an active schedule of concerts and recordings that spans a wide spectrum of music, extending from Gregorian chant through jazz and pop settings.
Established in 2008 to mark the 450th anniversary of Elizabeth I's accession in 1558, the group unites countertenors Daniel Brittain and Tim Carleston, tenors Nick Madden and Dominic Bland, and baritone/basses Andrew Thompson and Simon Whiteley. Each member has performed separately with leading ensembles such as the BBC Singers, Tenebrae, and the Collegium Vocale Gent. All six serve as lay clerks—professional adult singers—in the St. George's Chapel Choir at Windsor Castle and reside there. In this role they have sung at numerous official and private engagements for the British royal family, among them the 2018 wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Drawing on their shared experience, the singers chose to broaden their repertoire past liturgical duties and to present programs on tour. Their performances therefore encompass chant, Renaissance polyphony, madrigals that frequently include bawdy texts, folk songs, and fresh arrangements of jazz and pop standards. The sextet has performed throughout the United Kingdom as well as in Germany, Austria, and Spain, and completed a United States tour in 2018.
Its first recording, Music of the Realm: Tudor Music for Men's Voices, appeared on Resonus Classics in 2015. After several further releases on the same label, the group transferred to Signum Classics in 2019 and issued The Last Rose of Summer. The following year it released Journeys to the New World, an anthology of Hispanic American repertoire from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
