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After studying music at York University and singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Joseph Cornwell began his career with The Consort of Musicke and the Taverner Consort. Singing under conductors such as William Christie, Harry Christophers, Eric Ericson, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Gabriel Garrido, Hervé Niquet and Andrew Parrott, his international engagements have taken him thoughout Europe and to North America and the Far East as well as throughout the UK.

Operatic rôles have included Snout A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, Mitridate Il Pompeo Magno at the Varazdin Festival, Croatia, Polimone Il Tito for the Opéra du Rhin, Il conte Le nozze di Dorina at the Musikfestpiele Potsdam Sanssouci and the Bayreuth Baroque Festival, Achille Iphigénie en Aulide for Opera Factory, Lurcanio Ariodante for St Gallen Opera, Pilade Oreste for the English Bach Festival, Monteverdi Orfeo for the Boston Early Music Festival, in Rio de Janeiro and for Oslo Summer Opera, Giove Il ritorno d’Ulisse and King Arthur in Lisbon, Eumete Il ritorno d’Ulisse at the Aix-en-Provence Festival (a production now available on DVD), Thespis / Mercure Platée for TCC Productions, Lisbon, and Tamese Arsilda, Regina di Ponto at the Barga Festival.

Joseph Cornwell’s recordings include Evangelist St Matthew Passion with the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble, Boyce Peleus & Thetis with Opera Restor’d, Campra Requiem and King Arthur with Le Concert Spirituel, Israel in Babylon with the Kantorei Saarlouis, Messiah and Monteverdi Vespers 1610 with the Taverner Consort, Acis & Galatea (GRAMOPHONE Baroque Vocal CD of 2000), Monteverdi Vespers 1610 and Mozart Mass in C Minor with Les Arts Florissants, Monteverdi Vespers 1610 with the Gabrieli Consort, Mozart Requiem with the Yorkshire Baroque Soloists, King Arthur (GRAMOPHONE CD of the Month) with Le Concert Spirituel, Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle with Jos van Immerseel (BBC Radio 3 Building a Library Choice), Shepherd Oediups Rex with The Philharmonia Orchestra, Tamese Arsilda, Regina di Ponto with Modo Antiquo and Fairest Isle with the Parley of Instruments.

Current engagements include Orfeo L’Anima del Filosofo for the Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing, the St Matthew Passion with Capella Cracoviensis, Monteverdi Vespers 1610 with the Gabrieli Consort and Mars Dido and Aeneas with the New London Consort.

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