Christian Goursaud | Baritone

Recent solo engagements include Monteverdi Vespers (Collegium Musicum of London / The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble), Haydn Nelson Mass (Forest Green Choral Society), Charpentier Te Deum (Sandbach Voices),  Bloch Sacred Service (Roehampton University) and Bach St Matthew Passion (Oxford Spezzati Soloists). Other concert repertory includes
Bach St John Passion and  Christmas Oratorio, Handel Messiah, and the Duruflé and Fauré requiems.

Christian is co-founder of the vocal ensemble Il Suono, recently having given performances at King's Place, The State Hermitage St Petersburg, and other venues across the UK, France and Spain. In addition to singing baritone in the ensemble, he prepares fresh editions of a wide range of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century music for its performances. He is a member of the Choir of St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Soho Square, and Gentleman-in-Ordinary of HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace, in addition to enjoying freelance work with numerous other professional church choirs including The Queen's Chapel of the Savoy, St Margaret's Westminster, Southwark Cathedral, Guildford Cathedral, The Guards' Chapel and St Bartholomew the Great. Other professional ensembles include Armonico Consort, Maida Vale Singers, Oxford Voices.

Opera roles include Father Philippe in Holst's The Wandering Scholar (Waistcoat Opera Company, Grimeborn Festival 2011, Arcola Theatre) and Publio in Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito (cover, Opus Opera). Opera chorus work includes Rigoletto, Nabucco, La traviata, Un ballo in maschera, La forza del destino and Il trovatore (Verdi), Carmen (Bizet), La Wally (Catalani), Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy), Don Pasquale, La Fille du régiment (Donizetti), L'amore dei tre re (Montemezzi), Kat'a Kabanova (Janáček), L'amico Fritz (Mascagni), La Gioconda (Ponchielli), Iolanta (Tchaikovsky) and Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai) with Opera Holland Park, and Carmen with the chorus of Chisinău National Opera. In 2012, Christian will again appear with the Chorus of Opera Holland Park in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, conducted by Stuart Stratford and directed by Olivia Fuchs.

Christian is currently writing a PhD on the fifteenth-century music theorist, composer and lawyer Johannes Tinctoris, attached to and supported by the AHRC-funded research project 'The Theoretical Works of Johannes Tinctoris: A New Digital Edition' at Birmingham Conservatoire. He was previously awarded an MMus with distinction in Historical Musicology and a first-class BMus degree from King's College London. He studies singing with Robert Rice.

Telephone: 07796 033585
Email: enquiries@christiangoursaud.co.uk