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The English tenor, Joseph Hancock, began singing as a chorister in the Choir of New College, Oxford (Director: Edward Higginbottom). He then went on to study Music at the University of Cambridge (St John’s College), where he won the Winifred Georgina Holgate Pollard Memorial Prize, the Whytehead Scholarship, Wright Prize, and Hughes Year Prize for outstanding achievement. There he also sang as a Choral Scholar and later Lay Clerk in the Choir of St John's College (September 2022-August 2024), directed by Andrew Nethsingha and Christopher Gray. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music St John’s College, University of Cambridge (Double First Class Music graduate: October 2019-June 2022). In 2022 he was a member of the Sir Arthur Bliss Lieder Scheme at Pembroke College, receiving tuition from Joseph Middleton, and in recent years has enjoyed master-classes and tuition with Sir Thomas Allen, Ailish Tynan, Nicholas Mulroy, and Lucy Crowe. He is currently a postgraduate student for Master of Arts dgree in Music at the Royal Academy of Music (since September 2024; expected graduauation: June 2026), where he studies with Mark Wildman and Janet Haney.
Recent solo concert highlights include the Evangelist for J.S. Bach's St John Passion, Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe, George Frideric Handel's Messiah, San Giovanni in G.F. Handel's La Resurrezione. Recent operatic roles include The Male Chorus Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia, Nettuno & Pastore in F. Caccini's La Liberazione di Ruggiero, Prince Charming in P. Viardot's Cendrillon, and a workshop performance of a scene from a new opera written by Oliver Rudland.
Joseph Hancock is also an experienced ensemble singer, and has performed with ensembles including Voces8, Armonico Consort, Wishful Singing, and Continuum Choir. He was a member of the inaugural cohort of Choral Scholars with the Oxford Bach Soloists (Director: Tom Hammond-Davies), and sang as a Scholar with vocal ensemble Voces8 from 2022-2023. He continues to work with the Voces8 Foundation as a member of their Education Team, delivering singing workshops in schools across the country. Since November 2024, he also works as a Volunteer with the London branch of The Choir with No Name, an organisation of Choirs involving people affected by homelessness. He currently lives in Oxford, Oxfordshire. |
