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.
2025
November 29th Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe 7.30pm
Molza in Compagnia: Viol player-soprano Lucine Musaelian, lutenist-soprano Emma-Lisa Roux and the musicians of Musica Antica bring to life the Ferraran musical world of the musician, poet and courtier Tarquinia Molza
Musica Antica Rotherhithe
October 25th Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe 7.30pm
La Caxa di Vitio e Virtù: a recreation of an evening at the Venetian home of the famed singer and courtesan Lucia Trevixan.
Musica Antica Rotherhithe
September 20th Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe 7.30pm
Il Giardino del Canto: music for voices and instruments from the golden age of the Italian madrigal.
Musica Antica Rotherhithe
June 14th Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe 7.30pm
Les Incas de Perou: Rameau's Incas Du Perou alongside extracts from Vivaldi's Montezuma - two tales of love and death set in the final days of the Inca and Aztec empires.
Musica Antica Rotherhithe
May 22nd St John's Kirk, Perth 7.30pm
Perth Festival of the Arts
Miserere
Ora Singers, conducted by Suzi Digby
May 4th Dom St Marien, Erfurt 7.30pm
Thüringer Bachwochen Festival
Miserere
Ora Singers, conducted by Suzi Digby
April 15th Westminster Abbey 7.30pm
J.S.Bach St John Passion
Choir of Westminster Abbey with The English Concert, conducted by Andrew Nethsingha
April 5th Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe 7.30pm
L'Humanità Redenta: the first performance of Antonio Draghi's gorgeous dialogue between humanity and hope since Holy Week in 1669.
Musica Antica Rotherhithe
April 3rd Royal Festival Hall 7.00pm
7th Liszt Academy Concert Centre, Budapest 7.30pm
8th Concertgebouw, Amsterdam 7.30pm
J.S.Bach St Matthew Passion
Orchestra and Choir of the Age of Enlightenment, directed by Jonathan Cohen
March 23rd Sedbergh School Chapel 5.00pm
Vivaldi: Gloria
Sedbergh Chamber Choir and orchestra, conducted by John Seymour
February 23rd St Mary-at-Hill 6.30pm
Lutheran Vespers
J.S.Bach BWV 92 'Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn’
City Bach Collective
February 21st Guy's Hospital Chapel, 7.30pm
L'Elisio: extracts from Stefano Landi's La Morte d'Orfeo, Luigi Rossi's Orfeo and Michelangelo Falvetti's Diluvio Universale, alongside testimonies of people who have been awoken from coma and other realms of unconsciousness.
Musica Antica Rotherhithe, in collaboration with stage director Seb Harcombe and Welkin Theatre
February 3rd Bridgewater Hall 7.15pm
Sedbergh School 500th Anniversary year launch concert
January 19th King's Place 11.30am
Bach, the Universe and Everything: Sustainable Space
Bach BWV 13 'Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen', with guest speaker Joanne Wheeler.
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
2024
December 20th Westminster Abbey 7.00pm
Christmas Concert, including Britten's A Ceremony of Carols with harpist Cecilia De Maria
Choir of Westminster Abbey, conducted by Andrew Nethsingha
December 14th Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 1.00pm
A Dickensian Christmas by Candlelight
Covent Garden Carollers, conducted by Ivor Setterfield
December 13th 6.00pm, 8.00pm
December 14th 5.00pm, 7.30pm
Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
Christmas Carols by Candlelight
Covent Garden Carollers, conducted by Ivor Setterfield
December 11th Palau de la Música de València 7.00
Handel Messiah
The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Harry Christophers
November 30th Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe 7.30pm
Abandon'd Ariadne: extracts from the earliest operas, centred on the laments of three wronged heroines from ancient Greek myth.
Musica Antica Rotherhithe
November 26th Westminster Abbey 7.00pm
G. F. Handel Messiah
Choir of Westminster Abbey with the Academy of Ancient Music, conducted by Andrew Nethsingha
November 24th St Mary-at-Hill 6.30pm
Lutheran Vespers
J.S.Bach BWV 61 ‘Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland’
City Bach Collective
October 29th Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe 7.30pm
Il Gran Capitano della Morte: a soundscape of Florence from Lorenzo the Magnificent to
the restoration of the Medici.
Musica Antica Rotherhithe
September 14th Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe 7.30pm
La Virtù Fugante: charting the dramatic life of composer Antonia Bembo (c. 1640 - c. 1720)
through her music.
Musica Antica Rotherhithe
August 27th Grote Zaal, TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht 8.00pm
Morales: Mass for the Feast of Saint Isidore of Seville
Gabrieli Consort, conducted by Paul McCreesh
Part of the Festival Oude Muzik Utrecht
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