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"This biblical text is interspersed with solo arias providing devotional commentary. Soprano Kirsty Hopkins and tenor Greg Tassell movingly conveyed their horror at what they were anticipating or witnessing while fluently negotiating long high-lying lines."
Tenor arias, St John Passion - St Albans Choral Society 2019 - Alan Nafzger, Hertsad24.co.uk"The soloists were a well-matched trio. The tenor (as Uriel) has only one aria (In native worth) in which he can shine, but Greg Tassell handled this with aplomb and a clear tone, although with less engagement than the other two soloists. This slightly distanced approach, however, worked well for his narrative passages, which were delivered with the clipped conciseness that befits an archangel who receives scant scriptural description."
Creation, St John's Smith's Square - The Whitehall Choir 2019 - Barry Creasy, musicomh.comTenor Greg Tassell 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 under Andrew Millington. After a two-year stint working at a publishing company in London, Greg won a place on the post graduate diploma course at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied under David Lowe and Ryland Davies. Whilst at the RAM he reached the finals of both the London Handel Competition & London Bach Prize. He was a Young Artist for Retrospect Ensemble, a post that took him to the Wigmore Hall, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem with Purcell’s The Fairie Queen. He has performed on Polish radio with the Krakow Music Academy in Bach’s St John Passion and at the Orkney Festival in Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle. In recital Greg has performed at the London Handel Festival, Deal Festival of Arts and many others nationwide.
On the opera stage, Greg has performed chorus and various small roles 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 Nova Music under George Vass, creating the role of David in Charlotte Bray’s contemporary three person opera, Entanglement.
Since 2011 Greg focused his career both as a soloist on the oratorio & recital platform and in education becoming a singing teacher. He now teaches the choristers of Canterbury Cathedral as well as committing a huge amount of time to the music department of St Edmund’s School Canterbury. 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 which he did most recently in Cambridge for St Ives Music Society.
Aside from his solo performances, Greg is a founder member of professional chamber choir Sonoro (www.sonoromusic.com). He is also very proud to conduct the wonderful Thanet Chamber Choir and has recently led them in performances of Durufle’s Requiem and Bach’s Jesu Meine Freude.
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.
For Oratorio, Concert and Operatic roles please scroll down:
Oratorio and concert rep | |
Composer | Work |
Bach JS | Ascension Oratorio |
B Minor Mass | |
Cantatas 55, 147, | |
Christmas Oratorio | |
Easter Oratorio | |
Magnificat | |
St John Passion – Evangelist & Arias | |
St Matthew Passion – Evangelist & Arias | |
Beethoven | Mass in C |
Mass in D | |
Missa Solemnis | |
Britten | Les Illumination |
Misericordium | |
Serenade for tenor and horn | |
St Nicholas | |
The Company of Heaven | |
Bruckner | Te Deum |
Carissimi | Jephta |
Chilcott | Requiem |
Dvorak | Mass in D |
Stabat Mater | |
Requiem | |
Finzi | Dies Natalis |
Goodhall | Eternal Light |
Hamilton | Requiem |
Handel | Chandos Anthems 11 |
Dettingen Te Deum | |
Dixit Dominus | |
Foundling Hospital Anthem | |
Israel in Egypt | |
Jeptha | |
Judas Maccabeus | |
Messiah | |
My Heart is Inditing | |
Ode For St Cecilia’s Day | |
Samson | |
Theodora | |
Haydn | The Creation |
Imperial Nelson Mass | |
The Seasons | |
St Nicholas Mass | |
Macmillan | Gloria |
Maunder | Olivet to Calvary |
McDowall | Some Corner of a Foreign Field |
Mendelssohn | Elijah |
Hymn of Praise | |
Lauda Sion | |
Monteverdi | Vespers |
Mozart | Mass in C |
Mass in C minor | |
Requiem | |
Orff | Carmina Burana |
Parry | The Pied Piper of Hamelin |
Pergolesi | Magnificat |
Puccini | Messa di Gloria |
Rossini | Petite Messe Solonnelle |
Stabat Mater | |
Rutter | St George and the Dragon |
The Wind in the Willows | |
Schutz | St Matthew Passion |
Stainer | The Crucifixion |
Vaughan Williams | Hodie |
Serenade to Music | |
Opera Roles | |
Beamish | The Angel – Hagar in the Wilderness |
Bray | David – Entaglement |
Britten | Albert – Albert Herring |
Handel | Acis/Damon – Acis & Galatea |
Mozart | Belmonte – The Abduction from the Seraglio |
2nd Priest – The Magic Flute | |
1st Armed Man – The Magic Flute | |
Basilio – The Marriage of Figaro | |
Offenbach | Mercury – Orpheus and the Underworld |
Picker | Badger – Fantastic Mr Fox |
Smetana | Jenik – The Bartered Bride |