CHRISTOPHER FOSTER
Educated at Newcastle University and the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies, Christopher was a winner of the N.F.M.S. Young Concert Artists' Award. He was a finalist in the Richard Tauber Competition at The Wigmore Hall and was also selected to take part in Thomas Allen’s inaugural singing course at The Samling in the Lake District.
His concert work has seen him perform throughout the UK and Europe with orchestras such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Chapelle Royale, Vlaams Radio Orkest, Anima Eterna, and the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg under the direction of Pierre Boulez, Sir Andrew Davis, Mark Minkowski, Phillippe Herreweghe, Frieder Bernius and Joshua Rifkin. This includes concerts in Madrid of Messiah at the Auditorio Nacional de Música, Bach's B minor Mass at the Teatro Monumental (for Spanish Television), the Latvian premiere of Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius, two concerts in the Stravinsky Festival in Luxembourg and several concerts in Belgium, performing works by Zelenka, Bach, Beethoven and Orff.
Christopher has appeared on radio broadcasts in France, Belgium and at home on BBC Radio 3. These have included Bach’s St. Matthew Passion for the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts on two separate occasions, Bruch’s Schön Ellen and the world premiere of Donizetti's cantata Christopher Columbus , Schumann’s Manfred and Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol (both at the Royal Festival Hall), the world premiere of Britten’s The Rescue of Penelope in the Aldeburgh Festival and Busoni’s Arlecchino (both at the Snape Maltings).
His operatic roles include Mozart’s Figaro (Kentish Opera, First Act Opera) and Count Almaviva (covered for Sir John Eliot Gardiner), Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte (Britten-Pears School), Masetto in Don Giovanni , Alidoro in La Cenerentola (First Act Opera), Germont Père (Pavilion Opera), Baron Douphol (Clonter Opera) in La traviata , Marcello in La bohème (Opera del Mar), Morales and El Dancaïro in Carmen (Pavilion Opera), Marullo in Rigoletto (Pavilion Opera), Arthur in Maxwell Davies’ The Lighthouse , Sam in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti (Gent, Belgium) and Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress (studied at Britten-Pears School). His recordings include Purcell’s Timon of Athens conducted by Trevor Pinnock and Bach’s Cantata No. 34 conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner both for Deutsche Grammophon.
