Soloists

Zoë Brookshaw

British soprano Zoë Brookshaw read Theology at Cambridge University where she was a choral Scholar at Trinity College. She was a member of the Monteverdi Choir’s Apprentices Programme and a Rising Star of the Enlightenment with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Her opera engagements include Euridice and La Musica (L’Orfeo) with I Fagiolini, Aerial Spirit (The Indian Queen) in Antwerp, Caen, Lille and Luxembourg with Le Concert d’Astrée, Rameau (Pygmalion) with Dunedin Consort, and roles in The Fairy Queen with Gabrieli Consort.

On the concert platform Zoë has appeared with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Aci in Aci Galatea e Polifemo; Israel in Egypt at the BBC Proms), the Monteverdi Choir, Gabrieli Consort, Arcangelo, Britten Sinfonia, Gli Angeli Genève, Collegium Vocale Gent, the English Chamber Orchestra and London Handel Players. She is a member of the baroque ensemble Solomon’s Knot with whom she performs and records widely.

Amongst her musical collaborators are conductors John Butt, William Christie, Jonathan Cohen, Christian Curnyn, John Eliot Gardiner, Emmanuelle Haïm, Nicholas Kraemer, Paul McCreesh and Jonathan Sells.

Zoë has recorded Bach, Blow, Lennox & Michael Berkeley, and Charpentier on the Delphian, Hyperion, Resonus, Signum Classics, Soli dei Gloria and Sony labels.