Daniel Joy
Biography
Daniel began his musical education as head chorister at Croydon Minster before studying music at Durham University where he gained a first-class music degree and was awarded the Eve Myra Kisch Price Prize for outstanding academic achievement. He then studied on the postgraduate vocal course at The Royal College of Music and graduating with distinction from the opera course at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Daniel made his professional stage debut as Kozak in Statkowski’s Maria for Wexford Festival Opera, also broadcast on BBC, Schweizer Radio DRS and RTE Radio Ireland. He has returned to Wexford to perform The Poor Horn Player (Delius’ A Village Romeo and Juliet) and Gherardo (Gianni Schicchi) , the title role in Albert Herring at GSMD, Gerald in a UK tour of Lakme with Swansea City Opera, Adolfo/Gobin/cover Prunier in Puccini’s La Rondine for Opera di Peroni / Go Opera, The Duke (Rigoletto) and Goro (Madama Butterfly) both for Opera Brava, Alfred in Die Fledermaus for Kentish opera , and cover of roles for Opera North, Glyndebourne Festival, Garsington, Grange Park and Scottish Opera.
As a member of Glyndebourne Festival Chorus Daniel gave recitals of songs by Tchaikovsky accompanied by Liubov Orfenova, and of madrigals by Monteverdi, and a workshop performance of the role of Orpheus in Julian Phillips’ Followers as part of the Jerwood Young Artists Development Scheme.
Daniel’s concert performances include Verdi’s Requiem at The Royal Albert Hall with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius in Eton College, Finzi’s Dies Natalis (Britten Sinfonia), Handel’s Messiah (Cadogan Hall), the Evangelist in Bach’s St John Passion (St. Martin-in-the-Fields), Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 (The English Cornet and Sackbutt Ensemble), Haydn’s Missa Sancti Nicolai (Europen Union Chamber Orchestra), Finzi’s Intimations of Immortality (West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge), Evangelist and arias in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (Armonico Consort), Britten’s St Nicolas (Durham Cathedral, Wymondham Abbey), as well as the Evangelist and arias in the Bach’s St Matthew Passion, arias in Bach’s Magnificat, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solenelle and Stabat Mater and Requiems by Michael Haydn, Mozart and Saint-Saëns.
Daniel teaches singing at Eton College, Royal Hospital School and Cambridge University.
For oratorio and concert repertoire please scroll down:
| Oratorio and concert rep | |
| Composer | Work |
| Bach, J S | B Minor Mass |
| Cantata BWV 11: Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen (‘Ascension Oratorio’) | |
| Cantata BWV140: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme | |
| Cantata BWV 130: Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir | |
| Christmas Oratorio (Evangelist and Arias, in German and English) | |
| East Oratorio (Evangelist & Arias) | |
| Magnificat | |
| St John Passion (Evangelist and Arias, in German and English) | |
| St Matthew Passion (Evangelist and Arias, in German and English) | |
| Bach, CPE | Magnificat |
| Beethoven | Mass in C |
| Missa Solemnis | |
| Brahms | Liebeslieder Waltzer Op. 52 |
| An die heimat | |
| Britten | Rejoice in the Lamb |
| St Nicolas | |
| Les Illuminations | |
| Buxtehude | Magnificat |
| Charpentier | Litanies de la Vierge |
| Messe de Minuit | |
| Te Deum | |
| Colridge-Taylor | Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast |
| Dvořak | Mass in D |
| Stabat Mater | |
| Elgar | The Dream of Gerontius |
| Finzi | Dies Natalis |
| Intimations of Immortality | |
| Gounod | Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cécile |
| Handel | Alexander’s Feast |
| Dixit Dominus | |
| Israel in Egypt | |
| Judas Maccabaeus | |
| Messiah | |
| Samson | |
| Saul | |
| Theodora | |
| Haydn, J | The Creation |
| Harmoniemesse (Harmony Mass) | |
| Missa Cellensis (Mariazellamesse) | |
| Missa in Angustiis’ (Nelson Mass) | |
| Missa Sancta Nicolai | |
| Paukenmasse (Missa ‘In tempora belli’) | |
| Schöpfungsmesse (Creation Mass) | |
| Theresienmesse (Maria Theresa Mass) | |
| Haydn, M | Requiem |
| Janaček | Otčenaš |
| Kodály | Missa Brevis |
| Matthias | St Teilo |
| Mendelssohn | Elijah |
| St Paul | |
| Die erste Walpurgisnacht (The First Walpurgis Night) | |
| Monteverdi | Vespers of 1610 |
| Mozart | Requiem |
| Coronation Mass | |
| Missa brevis No. 5 ‘Spatzen’ (‘Sparrow’) | |
| Great Mass in C Minor | |
| Vesperae solennes de confessore | |
| Pergolesi | Magnificat |
| Puccini | Messa di Gloria |
| Purcell | King Arthur |
| Rachmaninov | Vespers |
| Respighi | Lauda per la Natività del Signore |
| Rossini | Petite Messe Solennelle |
| Stabat Mater | |
| Saint-Saëns | Requiem |
| Schubert | Mass in G |
| Magnificat | |
| Schütz | The Christmas Story |
| Stainer | Crucifixion |
| Swayne | Stabat Mater |
| Tippett | A Child of Our Time |
| Wilcocks | A Great and Glorious Victory |