WINNER OF THE HANDEL SINGING COMPETITION 2020
BIOGRAPHY
Winner of the London Handel Singing competition 2020, British baritone Jerome Knox was born in London and is a graduate of the Alexander Gibson Opera School at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where he was the inaugural Gleneagles scholar. He previously trained at the Royal College of Music, London, and read Classical Studies at Edinburgh University. In competition, Jerome was a finalist in the Grange Festival International Singing Competition 2019, where he performed with the Academy of Ancient Music, and was awarded the Villa Medici Prize.
His solo concert highlights include Handel’s Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall as well as performances of Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs and Dona Nobis Pacem, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Bach’s St John Passion, B Minor Mass and Christmas Oratorio, Handel’s Dixit Dominus, and Hérodes in Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ.
Jerome recently performed a recital in the 2021 London Handel Festival as well as appearing as a soloist in a performance of Handel’s Messiah and a concert of baroque arias with the Southbank Sinfonia at St John’s, Smith Square. His 2022 season includes a recital at the Händel-Festspiele in Halle, and his full debut with English Touring Opera, appearing in their staged version of Bach’s St John Passion, as well as singing the role of Afron in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel and performances as Marcello in La bohème. He will sing the role of Count Almaviva in Waterperry Opera’s new production of Le Nozze di Figaro in August and return to English Touring Opera to perform the role of Pallante in Handel’s Agrippina for their autumn tour.
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