BIOGRAPHY
Daniel Gilchrist is a young British tenor at the start of his solo career. Recent and upcoming highlights include the title role in Moteverdi's Orfeo in late 2024, the rather different title role in Offenbach's version of the same tale in February 2025, and an appearance at the Stoke Newington Early Music Festival in March.
Daniel grew up in the lovely town of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, where he had excellent instruction in music at Pate's Grammar School from Ellie Lane and Warwick Cole. A first-study cellist as a teenager, his focus shifted to singing whilst studying at Cambridge, where he sang in the choir of Gonville & Caius college under various directors, and later for a year in that of King's College under Daniel Hyde. Following a two year period living in Oxford, where he was engaged as a Lay Clerk by New College Choir and sang frequently with the Oxford Bach Soloists, he now lives in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, recently voted (quite wrongly) the fifth most boring town in the world.
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Daniel has a very keen interest in Lieder and English song, and with accompanists including Lilly Vadaneaux and Tammas Slater has given well-received recitals encompassing several key song cycles from both traditions, including Beethoven's An die Ferne Geliebte, Schumann's Dichterliebe and Liederkreis op. 39, and Finzi's 'til Earth outwears.
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He has significant experience in oratorio and particularly in Bach cantatas, as well as delivering one of the Evangelist parts in Bach's contemporary Stölzel's excellent passion setting at the Three Choirs Festival in 2023. He is also developing an increasing interest in opera.
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Daniel is also the musical director of early-music focused consort Selene, founded in Oxford in 2022.