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Sunday 22 June, 9.00pm
Images: Alexander Chance © Benjamin Ealovega; Toby Carr © Peter Mould
Alexander Chance, countertenor; Toby Carr, lute.
Alexander Chance is widely regarded as a leader among the recent generation of British countertenors. He made his stage debut in 2021 as Oberon in Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Grange Festival, and became the first countertenor to win the International Handel Singing Competition in 2022. His operatic career now flourishes alongside an acclaimed solo career. For this recital he joins with leading lutenist Toby Carr to explore the heights and depths of emotion in a wide-ranging programme of songs of love and loss from composers including John Dowland, Thomas Campion, Henry Purcell and John Blow.
Described by Gramophone Magazine as staking serious claim to ‘the title of his generation’s most exciting British countertenor’, Alexander is acclaimed for his interpretation of renaissance lute songs. Followers of the countertenor repertoire may well be familiar with Alexander’s father Michael Chance, and will surely want to hear Alexander’s exciting entry into this field. Toby Carr’s lute playing has been described as ‘sensuous and vivid’ (The Guardian), ‘Eloquent’ (BBC Music Magazine) and ‘Mesmerising’ (Opera Today). He performs with most of the principal period instrument ensembles in the UK and beyond, as well as with many symphony orchestras, opera companies and ballet companies.
This performance will take place by candlelight at the East end of Thaxted Church.
‘The countertenor Alexander Chance, as the gold-suited Voice of Apollo, shone visually and vocally’ Fiona Maddocks, The Observer, March 2024
This concert is sponsored by friends of Thaxted Festival who wish to remain anonymous.
Venue: Thaxted Parish Church
Tickets: £22 unreserved. Age 30 and under: £10.