Alexander Chance

Alexander Chance has worked 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, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Marcus Creed, 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. Chance’s 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 and concert tours with the English Concert, including at Carnegie Hall; Freiburger Barockorchester; 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.