Christopher
Ainslie
Upcoming engagements...
25 July 2008 - Latvia
GF Handel's 'Rinaldo' (title role) - Summer Festival, Sigulda - conducted by Andris Veismanis
8 August 2008 - Belgium
John Blow's 'Venus & Adonis' (Cupid) - Festival van Vlaanderen - Concert performance in the Concertgebouw Concertzaal, Brugge - conducted by Gary Cooper
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23 and 26 August 2008 - France
GF Handel's 'Partenope' (Arsace) - Les Azuriales Opera Festival , Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, Saint Jean Cap Ferrat - Directed by Alessandro Talevi and conducted by Natalie Murray
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1 October 2008 - England
Recital in the Music Room at Hatchlands with Julian Perkins (harpsichord), Sara Deborah Struntz (baroque violin) and Claire Thirion (baroque cello).
Hatchlands is 23 miles from London, in Surrey, and is home to a collection of Old Master paintings and some 50 historic keyboard instruments, 18 of which were owned or played by some of the great creators of classical music, including Purcell, JC Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Bizet, Mahler and Elgar.
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12 November 2008 - England
Recital with The English Concert at Handel House Museum, London - Handel Arias with Harry Bicket (harpsichord), Nadja Zwiener and Walter Reiter (baroque violins) and Jonathan Byers (baroque cello)
29 November 2008 - England
JS Bach's B Minor Mass - Town Hall, Birmingham - Paul Spicer conducts the Birmingham Bach Choir and Brandenburg Baroque Soloists
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6 December 2008 - England
GF Handel's 'Messiah' - Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham - conducted by Murray Stewart, Music Director of the Nottingham Harmonic Society
18 December 2008 - Latvia
24, 25 February 2009 - China
GF Handel's 'Alcina' (Ruggiero) - Latvian National Opera, first in Riga, then touring to Hong Kong - conducted by Andris Veismanis
21 March 2009 - England
GF Handel's 'Saul' (David) - Petersfield Musical Festival - Paul Spicer conducts the Southern Pro Musica
23, 24, 26, 28, 30 May and 1 June 2009 - France
Benjamin Britten's 'Death in Venice' (Voice of Apollo) - Opéra de Lyon
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15 December 2009 - England
GF Handel's 'Solomon' - Eton College School Hall, Eton, Berkshire, England - Ralph Allwood conducts The Windsor & Eton Choral Society
Recent engagements...
GF Handel's 'Orlando' (Medoro) - June 2008 - concert performance at the Wigmore Hall, London - conducted by Gary Cooper, with Independent Opera at Sadler's Wells
Harrison Birtwistle's 'The Minotaur' (Innocent 4) - April 2008 - World Premier at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conducted by Antonio Pappano and directed by Stephen Langridge
JS Bach's 'Matthaeus-Passion' - March 2008 - St George's Church, Hanover Square, London - Laurence Cummings conducting the London Handel Orchestra
JS Bach's 'Johannes-Passion' - March 2008 - St John's, Boxmoor - Madeleine Lovell conducting the Lea Singers and St George's Chamber Orchestra
GF Handel's 'Messiah' - December 2007 - Verizon Hall, Philadelphia - Christopher Warren-Green conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra
GF Handel's 'Messiah' - December 2007 - Tewkesbury Abbey and Cirencester Parish Church - Dr Donald Hunt conducting the Elgar Chorale and English Symphony Orchestra
GF Handel's 'Messiah' - December 2007, St John's Waterloo, Murray Stewart conducting the East London Chorus and London Pro Arte Baroque
GF Handel's 'Messiah' - December 2007 - St George's Hanover Square, London - Simon Williams conducting the London Handel Orchestra
GF Handel's 'Saul' (David) November 2007 - St John's, Smith Square, London - Paul Spicer conducting the Whitehall Choir and Brandenburg Sinfonia
London Handel Society Fund Raiser - November 2007 - St George's, Hanover Square, London - Laurence Cummings conducting the London Handel Orchestra
GF Handel's 'Belshazzar' (Cyrus) - August 2007 - Frauenkirche, Dresden, conducted by Peter Kopp
Monteverdi's 'Poppea' (cover of Ottone) - 18, 20, 25, 26 October, 1, 2, 6 November 2007 - English National Opera