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, The Sixteen, Choir of the Age of Enlightenment, The Sixteen, Ora Singers, Arcangelo, and Gabrieli Consort.

2026

November 29th Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe 7.30pm

Appollon et Orphée: chansons from the early fifteenth century by the two most famous composers of their day, Gilles Binchois and Guillaume Du Fay and their contemporaries

Musica Antica Rotherhithe

October 24th Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe 7.30pm

In Guilty Night: a Hollowe'en programme of music by Henry Purcell, centred on the eeriest of his works: Saul and the Witch of Endor.

Musica Antica Rotherhithe

October 8th The Queen's House, Greenwich 6.45 and 8.30pm

Virtuosissime: Musica Antica present music by four of the most celebrated female composers of their day - Barbara Strozzi, Antonia Bembo, Settima and Francesca Caccini - alongside music by the men who taught them: Giulio Caccini, Jacopo Peri, and Francesco Corbetta and Francesco Cavalli.

Musica Antica Rotherhithe

August 31st St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh 7.30pm

La Decima Musa: Arias, cantatas and instrumental music from the golden age of Venetian opera by Francesco Cavalli, Barbara Strozzi, P. A. Ziani, Francesco Lucio, and Giovanni Legrenzi drawn from Musica Antica Rotherhithe's upcoming debut album.

Musica Antica Rotherhithe

June 20th Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe 7.30pm

Les Sauvages: Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Sauvages, alongside arias from his other works of the stage and chamber music by his contemporaries.

Musica Antica Rotherhithe

March 31st St Columba's, Knightsbridge 7.00

Victoria's Requiem, and the world premiere of works by Dobrinka Tabakova & Eoghan Desmond.

Ora Singers, conducted by Suzi Digby

March 29th St Mary-at-Hill 6.30pm

Lutheran Vespers

Schütz Passion motets (SWV 56-60)

City Bach Collective

March 28th Oxford Town Hall 7.00pm