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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Recent concert appearances include a tour of Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Freiburger Barockorchester; a recital in Paris’s Salle Cortot of Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater and other baroque works, with Les Accents and Thibault Noally; Britten’s Canticles with Ian

Bostridge and Julius Drake at the Ravenna Festival; Bach’s St John Passion with John Eliot

Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists (recorded for Deutsche Grammophon); Bach’s B Minor

Mass with Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan; works by Purcell and Handel with Kristian

Bezuidenhout and Freiburger Barockorchester; Handel’s Messiah with orchestras such as the

Academy of Ancient Music, the London Handel Players and the Instruments of Time and Truth;

regular solo recitals throughout Europe with lutenist Toby Carr.

 

In 2021 Alexander made his stage debut as Oberon in The Grange Festival's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream; in 2022 he

featured in several roles at the Vache Baroque Festival; and in 2023 he performed Tolomeo in Handel’s Giulio Cesare (English Touring Opera).

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

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Highlights this season include a debut for Welsh National Opera (Apollo/Death in Venice), Giulio Cesare (Tolomeo) with Masato Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan, a debut solo recital at Wigmore Hall, and a solo recital at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

 

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