Conductor

Greg was brought up on a hop farm near Tunbridge Wells in Kent and was a chorister at Durham Cathedral. He studied music at Exeter University, becoming a choral scholar at Exeter Cathedral. He later studied under Welsh tenor Ryland Davies at the Royal Academy of music for his postgraduate diploma.

On the opera stage, Greg has performed with English Touring Opera, being the first to ever play the role of Badger in Tobias Picker’s Fantastic Mr Fox. He was also part of ETO’s award-winning education programme, presenting opera to special needs children. Greg has since performed with Opera a la Carte and more recently, with Nova Music, creating the role of ‘David’ in Charlotte Bray’s contemporary three person opera, ‘Entanglement’.

Greg is much in demand as a soloist on the oratorio platform. At Christmas and Easter Greg can be found somewhere in the UK performing Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Bach’s passions (arias or evangelist), Britten’s St Nicolas and other seasonal favourites. He also regularly performs unusual repertoire such as Macmillan’s Gloria, McDowall’s Some corner of a foreign field, Monteverdi’s Vespers and Buxtehude’s Jesu Membra Nostri. Greg has become particularly well known for performing the role of the roasting swan in Carmina Burana in full costume!

Aside from his solo performances, Greg is a founder member of professional chamber choir Sonoro (www.sonoromusic.com) and sings regularly with Canterbury Cathedral Choir as a tenor deputy. He also teaches singing at St Edmund’s and Simon Langton Boys Schools in Canterbury.

On a lighter note, Greg is a big fan of Elvis Presley and has been known to don a jumpsuit and sing a few numbers himself at parties or other social events. In his spare time, he is a keen golfer and cricketer, when time (and his wife) allows.

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