Tristram Cooke
Counter-Tenor
After graduating from Kings College London where his first study was violin, counter-tenor Tristram Cooke was awarded a scholarship as a singer on the MA course in Performance at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Glenville Hargreaves and Michael Chance, and graduated with Distinction in 2016. While there, he took on a variety of roles for opera scenes each term, and particularly enjoyed English Song and Lieder classes. He was also a member of the Josephine Baker Trust scheme.
Solo repertoire includes a number of the less-performed Handel oratorios, as well as familiar works by baroque composers. Tristram has a particular devotion to Bach, performing cantatas monthly with the City Bach Collective in the context of Lutheran Vespers at St Mary at Hill. Other Bach projects include the performance and recording of a Bach Cantata series during 2023-24 with the Zimmermann Band, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Bach’s appointment as Kantor at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig.
He also regularly collaborates on a range of projects with Musica Antica Rotherhithe, who specialise in the research and performance of lesser known Italian baroque music, currently touring around the UK with a grant from the Continuo Foundation. He has worked with lutenist Peter Martin in several recitals of early English music around the country, including for the Lute Society.
In addition to solo work, he is a Lay Vicar at Westminster Abbey, and enjoys performing with a number of internationally-recognised ensembles including the Tallis Scholars, Choir of the Age of Enlightenment, Ora Singers, Arcangelo, and Gabrieli Consort.
2024
July 27th Wells Cathedral 7.00pm
Sound the Trumpet!: Bach Magnificat and Purcell Come Ye Sons of Art
Somerset Chamber Choir and Florilegium, directed by Andrea Brown
July 11th Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge 7.30pm
Bach St John Passion
English Voices and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, directed by Timothy Brown
Part of the Cambridge Summer Music Festival
July 6th Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe 7.30pm
La Caccia: three raucous madrigal comedies La Caccia (The Chase), Il Cicalamento delle Donne al Buccato (The Gossip of the Women at the Well), and La Pazzia Senile (The Old Codger)
Musica Antica Rotherhithe
Innocence: Wigmore Hall debut concert
echo vocal ensemble
June 30th St Mary-at-Hill 6.30pm
Lutheran Vespers
J.S.Bach BWV 93 ‘Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten’
City Bach Collective
June 22nd St Mary's, Bourne Street (private event)
Concert of choral music and organ
Directed by Christopher Woodward
June 19th Westminster Abbey 7.00pm
Haydn The Creation
Choir of Westminster Abbey and Britten Sinfonia, conducted by Andrew Nethsingha
June 15th Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe 7.30pm
Les Plaisirs: chamber music for voices and viols from seventeenth century France
Musica Antica Rotherhithe
Spem in Alium
The Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Philips
April 12th Apothecaries' Hall (private event)
Lo Spedale, a C.17th Italian Comic Opera by an unknown composer
Musica Antica Rotherhithe
March 26th Opéra de Massey 8.00pm
Josquin 500: Josquin des Prez Missa Pangea Lingua and music by Byrd and Palestrina
The Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Phillips
March 24th Saffron Hall, Audley End 4.00pm
27th Queen Elizabeth Hall 7.00pm
J.S.Bach Easter Oratorio BWV 249, and Cantatas BWV 66 'Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen' and 6 'Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden'
Orchestra of the age of Enlightenment, directed by Peter Whelen
March 16th The Queen's House, Greenwich 7.30pm
Monteverdi and Lanier at The Queen's House
Musica Antica Rotherhithe
February 25th St Mary-at-Hill 6.30pm
Lutheran Vespers
J.S.Bach BWV 227 'Jesu, meine Freude'
City Bach Collective
February 18th King's Place 11.30am
Bach, the Universe and Everything: Got to have Faith
Bach BWV 22 'Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe', with guest speaker Dr Meganne Christian.
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
January 28th St Mary-at-Hill 6.30pm
Lutheran Vespers
J.S.Bach BWV 124 ‘Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht’
City Bach Collective
January 20th Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe 7.30pm
Cavalli Requiem
Musica Antica Rotherhithe