Christopher has sung with the Monteverdi Choir conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardener, the Musicke Company with whom he made his Wigmore Hall debut, and the Gabrieli Consort under Paul McCreesh.
Highlights include Mozart's C Minor Mass in Athens, Madrid and Innsbruck, Handel's Belshazzar in Paris, Lyon and Zurich and Schoenberg's Gurrelieder conducted by Sir Simon Rattle at the Proms.

Recent solo performances include most of the mainstream oratorios: Bach's Weinachts Oratorium (Wells Cathedral), Johannes Passion (Tilford Bach Festival), St. Matthew Passion (conducted by Sir David Willcocks at the memorial concert for Sir Keith Faulkner, Royal College of Music), Monteverdi Vespers (Truro Cathedral), Messiah (St. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh and St. Martin in- the- Fields, London), Mozart's Requiem with the London Mozart Players (Madrid, Segovia) and Verdi's Requiem (Downside Abbey).
Operatic credits include Mars, God of War in Boyce's The Secular Masque (London Handel Festival), The Voice of God in Benjamin Britten's Noye's Fludde (Royal Albert Hall) and Il Commendatore , Don Giovanni (Prior Park, Bath).
Christopher performed the world premiere of And the Music Played On by Hungki-Joo (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival), Stanley Glasser's Ezra (St. George's Chapel, Windsor) and the British premiere of John Joubert's Three Faces of Love (Windsor Fringe Festival).

Christopher has been involved in many recordings with labels such as Hyperion, Priory, Lammas, and Regent. Recordings with Deutsche Grammophon's Archiv label include Biber's F Minor Requiem, Mozart's C Minor Mass (Gabrieli Consort & Players), and more recently Haydn's The Creation with the Gabrieli Consort & Players and Chethams School Chamber Choir.

Future engagements include Messiah (Armagh, Northern Ireland, and Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford), Handel's Athalia with the Orquesta Nacional de Espana (Madrid), Puccini's Messa di Gloria (Bonhelm, Denmark), Handel's Oratorio Samson (Oslo) and the UK premiere of Giacomo Puccini's Requiem Mass at The Queen's College, Oxford.

To Book Christopher for a solo engagement, contact him at booking[at]christophersheldrake[dot]com

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