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JAMES OXLEY

Tenor

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James Oxley has appeared at all the major concert halls in London, at Symphony Hall Birmingham and Philharmonic Hall Liverpool, and notable UK concert credits include Missa Solemnis with Heinrich Schiff and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Stravinsky Renard with Psappha at the BBC Proms, Haydn Creation and Mozart Great Mass with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Handel Alexander's Feast with Northern Sinfonia and Nicholas McGegan. His engagements have taken him throughout Europe, especially to France where he has worked with Philippe Herreweghe, Hervé Niquet and Christophe Rousset.

Equally at home on the operatic stage he has sung the roles of Lensky and Belmonte at the Opera de Rennes, Lucano in Monteverdi’s Poppea at English National Opera, and Ferrando and Steersman Der Fliegende Holländer at the Opera de Rouen, with other operatic appearances at Garsington, Wexford, the Opera Comique in Paris and the Covent Garden and Spoleto Festivals.

He is a member of the group The Factory, an experimental theatre company in London.

Recent and future highlights include Sandy in Maxwell-Davies The Lighthouse with Psappha at the Buxton Festival, the title role in Bernstein Candide for the Opera de Rouen, Britten St Nicholas with the Northern Sinfonia, and Messiah with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

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