Greg Tassell
Artist Reviews
"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."
"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."
“Personable and musically intelligent”
“Tenor Greg Tassell made a profoundly moving soldier – utterly secure in the piece's taxing high passages – and singing with an infallibly English sound that sent tears rolling”
Biography
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 then studied under Welsh tenor Ryland Davies at Royal Academy of Music and won awards at the London Handel festival and London Bach Festival.
Greg had a three-year career in the chorus of English Touring Opera performing small roles and covering major roles. He was part of their award-winning sensory opera Midnight Moon in 2011 and created the role of Badger in Tobias pickers opera fantastic Mr. Fox.
Now a vastly experienced oratorio and recital singer Greg has performed all over Britain for various groups and choral societies, including the London Handel Festival, The Three Choirs Festival, the Orkney Festival and most recently the Jersey Liberation Festival.
He has appeared on Polish radio as Evangelist in Bach’s St John Passion and other recent notable engagements have included his first performance in the title role of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria and Bach’s St Matthew Passion for the Three Choirs Festival. He is booked to appear in recital in Dover and Goodnestone with pianist Spencer Payne in a programme to include Finzi’s A Young Man’s Exhortation. He is also collaborating with composer Donna Mckevitt on a piece called Three Ships for tenor, soprano, choir, trumpets and cannon fire in Ramsgate Harbour.
Greg teaches singing at St Edmund’s School Canterbury and privately in Broadstairs. He has conducted Thanet Chamber Choir for the past five years and also performs an Elvis tribute act, not nearly often enough, for friends and family and is considering appearing at the annual Elvis convention in Porthcawl if time allows.
A founder member of professional chamber choir Sonoro (www.sonoromusic.com) this year Greg also received a long service award for being a deputy tenor at Canterbury Cathedral for 20 years.
May 2025
For Oratorio, Concert and Operatic roles please scroll down:
| Composer | Work |
| Bach. J.S | St John Passion evangelist & arias |
| St Matthew Passion evangelist & arias | |
| Ascension oratorio | |
| Christmas oratorio recits & arias | |
| Easter oratorio | |
| Magnificat | |
| Mass in B Minor | |
| Beethoven | Mass in C |
| Mass in D | |
| Missa Solemnis | |
| Britten | Les illuminations |
| Misericordiam | |
| Rejoice in the Lamb | |
| Serenade | |
| St Nicholas | |
| The Company of Heaven | |
| Bruckner | Te Deum |
| Buxtehude | Membra Jesu Nostri |
| Carissimi | Jephte |
| Chilcott | Requiem |
| Coleridge Taylor | The Wedding of Hiawatha |
| Dvorak | Mass in D |
| Requiem | |
| Stabat Mater | |
| Elgar | The dream of Gerontius |
| Finzi | For St Cecilia |
| Goodhall | Eternal light |
| Hamilton | Requiem |
| Handel | Chandos Anthems 11 |
| Dettingen te deum | |
| Dixit Dominus | |
| Foundling Hospital Anthem | |
| Israel in Egypt | |
| Jepthe | |
| Judas Maccabeus | |
| Messiah | |
| My heart is indicating | |
| Ode for Saint Cecilia’s Day | |
| Samson | |
| Theodora | |
| Haydn | The creation |
| The Seasons | |
| Imperial Nelson Mass | |
| Saint Nicholas Mass | |
| Stabat Mater | |
| MacMillan | Gloria |
| Maunder | Olivet to Calvary |
| McDowall | Some corner of a foreign field |
| Mendelsohn | Lauda sion |
| Elijah | |
| Hymn of praise | |
| Monteverdi | Vespers |
| Mozart | Coronation Mass |
| Mass in C minor | |
| Mass in C | |
| Requiem | |
| Vespers | |
| Orff | Carmina Burana |
| Parry | The Pied Piper of Hamlin |
| Pergolesi | Magnificat |
| Stabat Mater | |
| Puccini | Messa di Gloria |
| Rossini | Petite Messe Solumnelle |
| Stabat Mater | |
| Rutter | The winds in the Willows |
| Saint George and the Dragon | |
| Schultz | St Matthew Passion evangelist & arias |
| Stainer | The crucifixion |
| Vaughan Williams | Hodie |
| Serenade to music |