Christopher Bowen was born in New Zealand and studied singing and medicine at Otago University. In 2003 he moved to London and, while learning from Ian Partridge, started his professional career. Since then his versatile, high tenor voice has lent itself to recital, opera, oratorio and ensemble singing. Christopher has performed a broad array of music from medieval to modern. He was Daniel in the 13^th century Play of Daniel at the Liverpool cathedral centenary and Attis in Northcote’s Hymn to Cybele at the Proms.

Christopher is a member of the BBC Singers with whom he performs and records across the UK and abroad. He was the Black Monk in Peter Maxwell Davies’ opera Taverner with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the youngest son in Judith Weir's The Vanishing Bridegroom for the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Telling the Tale weekend. He was a poet in the gramophone-award winning recording of Janacek's The Excursions of Mr Broucek and recently recorded Delius’ A Song of the High Hills with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis.

He is in demand as a tenor soloist with choral societies throughout the UK. Noted for fluent and articulate performances of Bach, he has sung passions and cantatas in the United Kingdom, Europe and further afield. Recent performances have included the Christmas Oratorio in Sheffield, John Passion in Bristol, and Matthew Passion in New Zealand. He was the tenor evangelist in the UK premiere of the Johannespassion by Gottfried Homilius.

As an haute-contre Christopher has performed Monteclair’s Le Triomphe de l’Amour and the title role in Charpentier's Acteon. Other recent engagements include the swan in Orff’s Carmina Burana and Acis in Handel's Acis and Galatea. He was Zadok in Handel’s Solomon at the Dublin Handel Festival and performed Handel’s Messiah at King's College Cambridge, Snape Maltings and the Wexford Opera House. He was the tenor in the world premiere of A Cambridge Mass by R Vaughan Williams.

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