Greg Tassell

Tenor 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.

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