Alexander Chance was born in London in 1992, and educated at New College, Oxford, where he was a Choral Scholar and read Classics.

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He regularly works with many of the leading conductors in the early music world, including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Masaaki Suzuki, René Jacobs, Masato Suzuki, Laurence Cummings, Jonathan Cohen, John Butt, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Marcus Creed, David Bates and Lionel Meunier. He is in demand as a concert soloist and has given many  recitals around Europe, making his recital debut at the Wigmore Hall and Concertgebouw Amsterdam in 2024.

His debut recording, ‘Drop not, mine eyes’ with lutenist Toby Carr, was named one of Gramophone Magazine’s ‘Best albums of 2023’. His recent opera roles include Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Britten) for The Grange Festival; Apollo (Death in Venice, Britten) for Welsh National Opera; and Tolomeo (Giulio Cesare, Handel) for English Touring Opera.

Recent and future highlights include his debut appearance at the BBC Proms, a return to Wigmore Hall with the London Handel Players, solo recitals with the English Concert, Freiburger Barockorchester and Dunedin Consort and Andronico / Tamerlano
at the International Handel Festival in Karlsruhe.

In 2022, he became the first countertenor to win the
International Handel Singing Competition, also winning the Audience Prize.

 

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