Soloists

Jack Comerford

Jack leads a varied career as a performer, teacher, and researcher. He read Music at the University of York and the Royal College of Music, where he graduated with a double First in Performance and Academic Research. Jack studied with Tim Evans-Jones and Stephen Varcoe.

Jack works regularly with the OAE, Gabrieli Consort & Players, The Sixteen, I Fagiolini and the Britten Sinfonia. Highlights have included tours of Gluck’s Orfeo and Iphigénie en Tauride with Laurence Cummings in Romania, Bach’s Motets at the BBC Proms with Harry Christophers, the Gramophone award winning Venetian Coronation programme with Paul McCreesh, Bach’s B Minor Mass in Poland with Vaclav Luks, Delius’s Hassan with Jamie Phillips, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at the BBC Proms with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Handel’s L’Allegro with Dinis Sousa at Carnegie Hall. Recent solo engagements include BWV 174 with the London Handel Players, Schutz’s Musikalische Exequien with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir and Bach’s B Minor Mass with the Hanover Band. Jack works as a postgraduate researcher at the University of Southampton where he is completing a doctorate on eighteenth century private music-making and the arrangements of Handel’s oratorios. He is a recipient of the Handel Institute research award and recently appeared as a guest speaker on BBC Radio 3.